JOU 3450 VIDEO AND AUDIO NEWS PRODUCTION
Students research, report, write, and edit video and audio news packages, as well as learn studio skills such as on-air presentation, directing, and producing. Students also learn to write news for the ear and the eye, including incorporating sound and graphic elements into stories.
- • define newsroom vocabulary, personnel, and operations.
- • demonstrate on-air presentation skills and learn the basics of studio production.
- • apply newswriting and reporting skills for truth, accuracy, and fairness in various stories on deadline.
- • write effective leads, develop story structure, use sources, and create sound bites and graphics.
- • learn information gathering, critical evaluation of sources, ethical ways of reasoning, and news judgment.
- • employ the tools of technology for video and audio news production.
- • learn how technology can affect diverse groups, such as the effect of lighting on skin tones, and disability access.
- • employ and engage diverse voices in news coverage.