Class Television Journalism

Students will learn some of the TV journalists duties and different ways of working and telling stories to the public. A television journalist as someone who reports the news using on-camera interviews and on-scene footage. They can cover local, national or international events and may research their assigned stories (investigation). Students will know how work's all the process, from the event to the story on a TV channel. The TV journalism as a work team - reporters, correspondents, camera operators, image edit operators, producers, technical crew members. Ways to react events as they occur/ reporting from events. Students will gain experience with cameras, editing equipment and other tools of broadcasting Main goal: Produce a News Story for TV.

1. The goal is to share with students the newsroom and television studio environment.
2. The TV journalism as a work team - reporters, correspondents, camera operators, image edit operators, producers, technical crew members.
3. Ways to react events as they occur/ reporting from events.
4. The difference between scheduled and the unexpected news.
5. TV Report: The idea, the images, the skills to write a script.
6. Give the students skills and orientation to research in order to provide a more accurate and complete story. Writing, reporting, editing and producing a News Story.
7. Understand the specific role of a TV Anchor/The anchor and all the work to follow-up stories to give the public new information or to update them.
8. The relation between the anchor and the camera.

Students will experience a TV environment with pratical classes, working on different kinds of news. Evaluation method: students will have to do a TV story report (idea, collect images and interviews/editing). 75% presence in theoretical and pratical classes required. Minimum 10 in 15 classes (theoretical and pratical), and minimum 4 in 5 technical classes (camera, sound, editing). If not justified, the student flunk. Minimum classification: 10.

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