Television Journalism
Code
711011072
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
José Rodrigues dos Santos
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) Understand perceptual and sensorial abilities;
b) Understand the best way to communicate through television while taking into consideration these cognitive characteristics;
c) Develop criticism abilities;
d) Develop writing and editing skills for television news.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
Bibliography
YORKE, Ivor, \"Television News\", Oxford, Focal Press, 233 pp.
KELLER,Teresa; HAWKINS, Stephen, \"Television news: A Handbook for Writing, Reporting, Shooting and Editing\", Scottsdale, Holcomb Hathaway Publishing, 2005, 404 pp.
YORKE, Ivor, \"The Technique of Television News\", Focal Press, Londres, 1987;
HORTSMANN, Rosemary, \"Writing for Radio\", A&C Black, Londres, 1988;
KEITH, Michael, \"Broadcast Voice Performance\", Focal Press, Londres, 1989.
Teaching method
Presentation of the fundamental skills for television news writing. Examples will be produced to allow students to develop their criticism abilities and analytical skills.
Evaluation method
Knowledge thus learned will be tested in several writing and editing assignments readily evaluated and corrected in the classroom, though they wont be rated to allow students to make mistakes without another consequence than learning with them. In the end, is done an evaluation exercise.