Students will be expected to provide an audio tape recorder. Student participates in an intensive lab experience utilizing the most advanced equipment available. Emphasis on application, editing, signal processing, and multi-track recording. Student is expected to produce a sound recording for a specific use of professional quality. Consideration of operating problems of a television studio, as well as functions, limitations, and capabilities of television equipment and facilities.
Students edit programs to broadcast quality.
Analysis of news and public affairs broadcasting. Topics covered are laws pertaining to cable television, station licensing and renewal, political broadcasting, libel, copyright, the right of reply, and privacy. The historical development of the FCC and its jurisdictions will also be examined. Case studies will be discussed along with the relevancy of some laws as they pertain to today s society. Detailed analysis of a performer s role in a variety of settings.