Class Television Journalism

This curricular unit aims to enable students to do journalism on television. They learn the characteristics of television language and how to use different journalistic genres. They gain skills to work as a team and combine the word with the power of the image without being redundant.

Students get to know how a newsroom works, and how a newscast is produced. They make edited reports and simulate live broadcasts abroad and in the studio.

The classes allow simulating an environment that reproduces professional routines, from the idea for the report to editing and presenting the news.

It is also stimulated the debate and the critical spirit about the work carried out in the classrooms, as well as in the national and international television context.

• Introduction to television writing: writing for images; the importance of sound; the grammar of the moving images.
• Teamwork: journalists, camaramen, image editors, producers, directors, anchors/presenters.
• Reporting: work preparation process in the newsroom; story approach angle; the reporter on the field.
• Live television: justification, utility and trivialization.
• The interview: preparation of the questionnaire; knowledge of the interviewee, cutting plans for the editing process.
• When there are no "images": live, graphic and archive resources.
• News from international agencies: elaboration of news from feeds.

Classes are essentially practical. After the material taught by the teacher, practical work is applied to carry out what has been learned. Classes follow the working principle of a newsroom to apply routines close to those used by television journalists.

Assessment distributed as follows:

• Participation in classes (50%)
• Practical work - television report (50%)

The possibility of carrying out appeal tests is allowed, in specific cases, by means of an agreement established between the professor, the student and the Course Direction.

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