Production, Expression and Design of Journalistic Products
Code: 104984 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2501933 Journalism | OB | 2 | 2 |
Contact
- Name:
- David Badajoz Dávila
- Email:
- David.Badajoz@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- catalan (cat)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- Yes
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- No
Other comments on languages
Classes are in catalan. All materials are in catalan.Teachers
- Ana I. Entenza Rodríguez
- Jordi Colet Ruz
- Maria Leonor Balbuena Palacios
Prerequisites
There are no pre-requisites.
Objectives and Contextualisation
To train professionals prepared to organize information in the graphic media.
To apply knowledge of journalism in the organization of information and communication in the graphic media.
To transmit information through graphic messages.
To use formal elements and adapt graphic messages taking into account the recipients of the information.
Competences
- Abide by ethics and the canons of journalism, as well as the regulatory framework governing information.
- Demonstrate a critical and self-critical capacity.
- Design the formal and aesthetic aspects in print, graphic, audiovisual and digital media, and use computer-based techniques to represent information using infographic and documentary systems.
- Generate innovative and competitive ideas in research and professional practice.
- Manage time effectively.
- Relay journalistic information in the language characteristic of each communication medium, in its combined modern forms or on digital media, and apply the genres and different journalistic procedures.
- Research, select and arrange in hierarchical order any kind of source and useful document to develop communication products.
- Respect the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
- Show leadership, negotiation and team-working capacity, as well as problem-solving skills.
- Use advanced technologies for optimum professional development.
Learning Outcomes
- Appraise the use of design in the media as a support for relaying information in the press, radio, television and multimedia.
- Be familiar with and professionally use the necessary voice and image recording tools.
- Demonstrate a critical and self-critical capacity.
- Generate innovative and competitive ideas in research and professional practice.
- Identify and distinguish the technical requirements necessary to relay information in the language characteristic of each communication medium (press, audiovisual, multimedia).
- Manage time effectively.
- Research, select and arrange in hierarchical order any kind of source and useful document to develop communication products.
- Respect the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
- Show leadership, negotiation and team-working capacity, as well as problem-solving skills.
- Use Internet’s communication resources properly.
- Use advanced technologies for optimum professional development.
- Use social responsibility criteria in various information production processes.
Content
Block 1: Production
1. Process
2. Materials
3. Especifications
4. Costs
Bloc 2: Edition
1. Composition guidelines
2. Style guidelines
3. Correction guidelines
Block 3: Design Foundaments
1. Design Concept
2. Standards
3. Design Theory
4. Entipology
Bloc 4: Estètica gràfica
1. Formal aprehension: Sensibilitat i perception
2. Organic and Inorganic
3. Graphic message
4. Aesthetic state
Bloc 5: Arquitectura gràfica
1. Tipometria
2. Components
3. Variables
Block 6: Colour
1. Tipology
2. Expression
3. Use and reproduction
Bloc 7: Tipografia
1. Tipologia
2. Expressió
3. Ús i reproducció
Block 7: Type
1. Tipology
2. Expression
3. Use and reproduction
Methodology
Via Campus Virtual, a chronogram will be available with the activities for each session.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Autonomous Work | 60 | 2.4 | 7, 2, 9, 3, 4, 6, 5, 8, 10, 12, 11, 1 |
| Seminars | 15 | 0.6 | 3, 4, 5, 10, 11 |
| Theory Classes | 12 | 0.48 | 7, 2, 9, 3, 4, 6, 5, 8, 10, 12, 11, 1 |
| Tutorial | 7.5 | 0.3 | 7, 2, 9, 3, 4, 6, 5, 11 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Laboratory Practices | 5 | 0.2 | 7, 2, 9, 3, 4, 6, 5, 8, 10, 12, 11, 1 |
| Theory Evaluation | 7.5 | 0.3 | 7, 2, 9, 3, 4, 6, 5, 8, 10, 12, 11, 1 |
Assessment
Evaluation will be split as follows, although there might be changes due to possible confinements:
R1, 5%; Newspaper 1
R2, 10%; Newspaper 2
R3 STYLE BOOK, 15%
R4 COVER, 7,5%;
R5 TABLE OF CONTENTS, 7,5%;
R6 PAGES 15%
R8 INTERACTIVE 5%
R9 POSTER-BOOK 5%
R10 Test 30%
In case of a second registration, the students will be able to take a single test. This test will consist of the delivery of all pending activities and, if needed, a theoretical test in situ. The qualification of the synthesis test will be the qualification of the subject.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grpahic Design Practices | 70% | 40 | 1.6 | 7, 2, 9, 3, 4, 6, 5, 8, 10, 12, 11, 1 |
| Theory Exam | 30% | 3 | 0.12 | 7, 2, 9, 3, 4, 6, 5, 8, 10, 12, 11, 1 |
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