module specification

SM5067 - Television Studio Practice (2024/25)

Module specification Module approved to run in 2024/25
Module title Television Studio Practice
Module level Intermediate (05)
Credit rating for module 15
School School of Computing and Digital Media
Total study hours 150
 
85 hours Guided independent study
45 hours Scheduled learning & teaching activities
20 hours Assessment Preparation / Delivery
Assessment components
Type Weighting Qualifying mark Description
Group Coursework 40%   Group television studio script
Practical Assessment 60%   As-Live 15 minute television magazine programme
Running in 2024/25

(Please note that module timeslots are subject to change)
Period Campus Day Time Module Leader
Spring semester North Friday Morning
Spring semester North Friday Afternoon

Module summary

This module provides practice-based learning experience of television studio production, introducing students to the stages involved in planning, scripting and rehearsing an as-live television programme and providing experience of different roles in the television production process including performance roles and behind-camera production roles.  Students will be encouraged to work collaboratively and reflectively.


The module aims to:
1. Enable students to gain experience of television studio production and develop skills in television studio practice
2. Enable students to develop a range of transferable skills in audio-visual production.
3. Encourage students to work collaboratively towards the production of an as-live television programme.
4. Encourage a critical, reflective and collaborative approach to practice-based media work

Syllabus

The module will allow students to develop media practice skills by working towards the recording of a 20 minute as live television magazine programme.

The module will address planning, scripting, performing, and producing television studio productions and allow students to experience different roles in the television production process.

Typically, students will be introduced to the main roles in television studio production including:

• performing,
• studio management,
• camerawork, and;
• television production.

Students are given opportunities to practice each of those roles in the television studio. Students will also learn about the aesthetics of television production and formats and genres of television programmes. Students will be encouraged to work toward the production of a 20 minute television magazine programme, rehearsed as-live in week 14 and recorded as-live in week 15.
Learning Outcomes LO 1 - 3

Balance of independent study and scheduled teaching activity

This module is delivered through a combination of modes of delivery, including formal lectures, seminars, film and television screenings, practical workshops and individual tutorials. The mixed-mode module delivery is used to encourage a supportive environment for individual and peer-group learning. 

A blended learning strategy is employed to enhance the learning experience, facilitate communication between students and tutors and develop collaboration among students. The Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) is used as a platform to support online activities including on-line discussions, evaluation of online resources, and access to electronic reading packs. The VLE is also used to facilitate formative assessment and related feedback, as well as a tool to integrate useful online learning materials provided by research institutions, academic publications, professional organisations and other relevant sources.

Learning outcomes

On completion of this module students who attend regularly and engage with the module will be able to:


1. Undertake research across academic and industry sources about TV practices and their relationship to the texts and/or audiences of television (LO1).
2. Contribute to the production of a television studio script for television production and demonstrate an understanding of the different roles in television production (LO2).
3. Contribute to the production of an as-live television show and demonstrate the ability to adopt and complete a formal role in the television production process (LO3).

Bibliography

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Journals and Articles
New Review of Film & Television Studies
European Journal of Cultural Studies
Television & New Media
Screen
Convergence
International Journal of Cultural Studies
Journal of British Cinema and Television
Industry documents/magazines
Broadcast
New Media Age
Televisual
BBC Public documents
Department of Culture Media and Sport legislation and policy documentation
Ofcom consultations/findings
www.Screenonline.org.uk
www.4docs.org.uk
www.thedfg.org