58111 Reporting with Sound and Image
UTS: Communication: Journalism Information and Media LearningCredit points: 8 cp
Result Type: Grade, no marks
Requisite(s): 58110 Introduction to Journalism
There are also course requisites for this subject. See access conditions.
Handbook description
The use of sound and image in journalism professional practice is explored. Students develop their sound and video recording, interviewing, writing and editing skills to produce short news and current affairs reports for broadcast media. Students build an understanding of how changes in online media are impacting on audio/visual journalism. They critically analyse professional and ethical issues that arise in the context of broadcast journalism, including their own. The relationship between publishing formats and storytelling is explored. Students develop ideas and produce current affairs reports, drawing on a range of sources and build on basic news reportage, both in form and content. Students edit, package and publish reports on NewsDay.
Subject objectives/outcomes
At the completion of this subject, students are expected to be able to:
- research stories.
- use basic audio and video technologies for the production of news and current affairs packages.
- interview, write and edit media packages.
- apply journalism ethics to their audio /visual media practice.
- reflect on audio and video use in a converged media environment.
Contribution to graduate profile
This subject makes a major contribution to students'capacity to apply their knowledge and skills; manage projects; and work ethically. It makes a minor contribution to their capacity to think analytically and work collaboratively.
Teaching and learning strategies
Students will learn the process of producing newsworthy stories through writing and publishing news stories on the web. They will learn about newsworthiness through peer review and discussion and NewsDay fieldwork. They will learn to use audio and video technologies through workshops. They will learn about reflecting on the converging media environment and journalistic ethics in lectures and tutorial discussion.
Content
- Researching for audio and video
- Interviewing for audio and video
- Recording and editing audio and video
- Scriptwriting for audio and video
- Shooting video – sequences and overlay
- Application of ethics to audio and video journalism
- Analysing and evaluating audio and video journalism
- Contemporary media developments and convergence
- Creating audio and video journalism for online publication
Assessment
Assessment item 1: Radio Assignment
| Objective(s): | a, b, c, e |
| Weighting: | 40% |
| Task: | Students will work in teams to produce a 2SERFM news bulletin with each student contributing a news story of approximately 2-3 minutes length plus taking an active role in the production. A reflection blog is also part of this process and will include research notes and links, logs of contacts and calls made plus unedited recorded interviews. A critical reflection on the final individual story plus the bulletin is required. |
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Assessment item 2: A Video News Report
| Objective(s): | a, b, c, d |
| Weighting: | 40% |
| Task: | Students work in pairs to collaborate on a video news report, no longer than one minute fifty seconds. Students will need to identify and research a story ideal for video/television news. Students shoot two interviews and other video material including overlay and sequences, write script, perform voice over, edit and produce final story. |
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Assessment item 3: Newsday
| Objective(s): | a, c, d |
| Weighting: | 20% |
| Task: | Students research, script, record and edit a 45 second story in either audio or video format and are asked for a reflection of the research and production process in the form of a blog of 500 words. |
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Minimum requirements
Attendance is important in this subject because it is based on a collaborative approach which involves essential workshopping and interchange of ideas with other students and the tutor.
Students who fail to attend 85% of classes may be refused permission to have their final assessment item assessed (see Rule 3.8). An attendance roll will be taken at each class. Where possible, students should advise the tutor in a timely manner if they are unable to attend.
In order to pass the subject, students need to pass each task. The lecturer has the right to ask students to resubmit.
Students will submit a Student Project Approval Form in which they identify risks, research current industry best practice and undertake to adhere to the safe work practices associated with their project.
Required text(s)
Phillips, G & Lindren, M. 2005, Australian Broadcast Journalism, 2nd edn, OUP, South Melbourne.
Recommended text(s)
Ahern, S. 2000, Making Radio: A Practical Guide to Working in Radio, Allen & Unwin, St. Leonards NSW.
Alysen, B. 2006, Electronic Reporter, Broadcast Journalism, Deakin University Press, Sydney.
Beaman, J. 2000, Interviewing for Radio, Routledge, London & New York.
Herbert, J. 2000, Journalism in the Digital Age, Focal Press, Oxford & Boston.
White, S.A. 1996, Reporting in Australia, 2nd edn, Macmillan, South Melbourne.
