Radio and Video Production and Mobile Journalism

Organisation over 20 weeks

Four 5-week blocks (4 weeks of classes, 1 week of assessment). The two course units are taken unchanged from the original degree: same content, same assessments.

• Blocks 1 and 2 (weeks 1 to 10): RAD 422 — Radio Journalism and News in National Languages
• Blocks 3 and 4 (weeks 11 to 20): TVE 423 — Audiovisual, Multimedia and Mobile Journalism

RAD 422 - Radio Journalism and News in National Languages

To master radio, which the curriculum assumes to be a central medium in the sub-region, and to produce accurate, understandable local news in a national language.

Learning outcomes

• Write for the ear and produce a radio news bulletin, report and magazine programme.
• Edit an audio story using free or no-cost software.
• Produce accurate news in a national language, including on technical, legal or health topics.
• Adapt news programming to the audiences of a community radio station.

Content

• Writing for radio; voice, diction, delivery; lead-in and back-announcement.
• Formats: news flash, spoken news bulletin, report, interview, magazine, debate.
• Audio editing and mixing with free software; compressed formats; podcasts and distribution via messaging apps.
• News in national languages: terminology, translating technical, legal and health concepts, accuracy checking.
• Community radio stations: local roots, listener participation, programming; legal regime to be studied on the applicable texts.
• Knowledge mediation on air: explaining a public decision or a scientific fact.

Assessment: Continuous assessment (40%): production exercises (news flash, short report). Production (60%): local radio magazine programme, partly in a national language, assessed against a rubric; the national-language part is co-assessed by a speaker appointed by the school.

TVE 423 - Audiovisual, Multimedia and Mobile Journalism

To produce news in pictures, from the television report to the vertical format for social media, with lightweight equipment.

Learning outcomes

• Write and produce a video report: pictures, sound and commentary.
• Shoot, edit and distribute a story with a phone.
• Adapt a video production to mobile uses and low connectivity.
• Respect image rights and the consent of the people filmed.

Content

• Audiovisual writing: relationship between picture, sound and commentary; building a sequence.
• Filming: shots, framing, lighting, sound recording; the work of the camera reporter.
• Editing and presenting: software editing, lead-in, live link; studio set exercise for the on-campus cohort and in a virtual classroom for the online cohort, with no effect on assessment.
• Mobile journalism: filming, editing and distribution on a phone; live broadcasting on social media; vertical formats.
• Subtitling, compression and lightweight formats; video accessibility.
• Image rights, consent and protection of vulnerable people.

Assessment: Continuous assessment (40%): filming and editing exercises. Production (60%): short-format video report and its mobile version, subtitled, assessed against a rubric.

Career opportunities

Radio journalist, camera reporter, mobile journalist, producer of local news in a national language.

At your own pace: the self-paced pathway

In a class, this certificate takes 20 weeks, on the cohort's dates. On the self-paced pathway, you start whenever you like, online, and progress at your own pace. The price is the same.

Admission

Bachelor's degree in a related field or professional experience in news assessed on application. Admission based on application; detailed requirements set by the school.

The credits you earn are recognised without further assessment if you later join the programme they come from, Professional Master's degree in Journalism, within a period set by the certificate regulations.