module specification

Continuing on from the second year (Level 5) Video and Television Production module, you will develop and acquire further skills and techniques necessary to succeed in more advanced forms of video, including vox pops, taking clips, producing voicers, editing interviews, delivering in-studio 2-ways, news reading, package writing, filming and production.
 
You will learn to identify subject matter and potential readerships; master interviewing and editing techniques in video; learn how to find original angles; undertake focused, widely sourced research on individuals and issues; and conduct on-the-spot reportage, delivering original news story content. This will be taught through a combination of workshops, masterclasses and studio activities, including voice coaching.
 
This module aims to develop your skills in multi-platform journalism. Via practical workshops and news days, which closely copy the latest UK industry working practices in modern multimedia newsrooms thus transforming understandings into practice, you will learn the basics of video/TV journalism, as well as video reporting/production skills, including microphone and editing skills, using cutting-edge software and equipment. This will reinforce your understanding of the need for 360-degree journalism in contemporary society.

You will work on projects within class with a view to publishing them online via the course website, www.hollowayexpress.co.uk Holloway Express, thereby providing an outward-facing portal for future employability.
 
Successful completion of this module will involve the preparation of journalism products to be developed for presentation to prospective employers.
 
Assessment will involve two portfolios of journalism plus engagement with weekly Journal.
 
Contribution to newsdays will be both self-assessed and moderated by tutors.

Teaching sessions will take place in the multimedia newsroom and TV studio where you will be required to produce clear, vigorous and balanced reports in a form that will attract and interest the listener.  

Coaching in class will focus on recognising, substantiating, verifying and telling a good story, and then compiling these stories into an edited media product. [LOs UOL, 1,2,4]

You will be taught how to recognise, obtain and select important, relevant and newsworthy content using appropriate skills and techniques. [UOL, 3]

You will need to use social media, reader polls, message boards, forums and reader comments to develop stories and a dialogue with listeners.  You will write, subedit and re-version copy for different platforms and purposes. [1,3, 4]
Through tutor coaching you will improve technical skills such as video-recording and editing, writing and editing copy, scripts, and headlines.  Social media will form a constant backdrop, resource and outlet.  Live tweeting and streaming will accompany news days. [2]

You will learn basic budgetary and costing techniques. [4,5]

In teams, you will unify words, video and social media to construct distinctive journalistic products for online, social and broadcast. Newsdays and news weeks will consolidate this learning. Products will be streamed on the course website, Holloway Express. [5]
Tutors will help you produce work that is legally safe and adherent to industry codes of practice and/or guidelines. [4]

It will form part of your e-portfolios, which you can use in seeking employment.

Teaching sessions will take place in the multimedia newsroom and television studio where students will be required to produce clear, vigorous and balanced reports in a form that will attract and interest the audience.  

Coaching in class will focus on recognising, substantiating, verifying and telling a good story, and then compiling these stories into an edited media product. [LOs 1,2,4]
You will be taught how to recognise, obtain and select important, relevant and newsworthy content using appropriate skills and techniques. [3]
You will need to use social media, reader polls, message boards, forums and reader comments to develop stories and a dialogue with listeners.  You will write, subedit and re-version copy for different platforms and purposes. [1,3, 4]
Through tutor coaching you will improve technical skills such as video-recording and editing, writing and editing copy, scripts, and headlines.  Social media will form a constant backdrop, resource and outlet.  Live tweeting and streaming will accompany news days. [2]
You will learn basic budgetary and costing techniques. [4,5]
In teams, you will unify words, video and social media to construct distinctive journalistic products for online, social and broadcast. Newsdays and news weeks will consolidate this learning. Products will be streamed on the course website, Holloway Express. [5]
Tutors will help you produce work that is legally safe and adherent to industry codes of practice and/or guidelines. [4]
It will form part of your e-portfolios, which you can use in seeking employment.

If you read all the required texts, participate in all the class activities and complete the required assessments and assignments, you should be able to:

1. Research, write and present news items and features to industry standard;
2. Develop basic technical skills in video and filming;
3. Work in teams producing journalism which fits ethical and market criteria and is substantiated;
4. Appreciate and apply legal, professional and professional guidelines and regulation to their journalistic work;
5. Display competencies in developing, commissioning, editing, writing, producing and publicising multi-platform stories which will make them employable in a professional publishing environment.

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