Students write scripts for a variety of program formats, including commercials, public service announcements, news, interviews, and documentaries. Performance elements include diction, enunciation, pronunciation, script interpretation, microphone techniques, posture, movement, and expression. Covers the theoretical background of the field and extensive applied laboratory experiences. Includes program aesthetics, production planning, visual design, scripting, rehearsing and directing. Includes program aesthetics, production planning, scripting, shooting, sound recording, video tape editing, and post-production processes.
Students produce several projects.
Solutions to those problems and the decision-making process are analyzed. The course also examines modern and post-modern African performance genres including popular theatre, radio and television broadcasts, music, cinema, and indigenous video production. An opportunity to study the craft of writing and field reporting for television news. Instruction on writing, story structure, source development, news judgment, ethics, and law is put into practice as students shoot, edit, and write six local news reports that will be aired on Public Eye News, the student newscast on TV 13. This course examines cultural differences in communication styles and systems across a variety of national and American sub-cultural groups.