Production and Expression of Audiovisual Genres
Code: 104987 ECTS Credits: 12| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2501933 Journalism | OB | 2 | A |
Contact
- Name:
- Montse Llinés Soler
- Email:
- Montse.Llines@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:
- Yes
Teachers
- Manuel Pereira Garza
Prerequisites
The course doesn’t have specific prerequisites, but it is considered as a continuity of the specialised subjects such as Audiovisual Languages, Basics of Journalism Technology and Writing and Voice Recording in Audiovisual Media.
Classes are taught in Catalan and/or Spanish. Students must have extensive knowledge of these languages to follow the course and to perform the practical exercises.
Objectives and Contextualisation
The course is integrated into the topic “Journalistic production”. This topic in the Journalism Degree consists of the following contents:
- Basics of Journalism Technology OB
- Production, Expression and Design of Journalistic Products OB
- Production and Expression of Audiovisual Genres (our subject) OB
- Design and Visual Composition OT
- Photojournalism OT
- Multi-platforn Journalistic Production (UAB Campus Media) OT
The course, within the training block, is aimed at providing the general concepts and the theoretical foundations for the conception and the production of radio and TV news, interviews and reports.
Competences
- 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.
Content
The main contents of the subject will be developed around the following thematical axis:
- Informative audio-visual genders. The roles of media journalism in the era of social media
- Radio and television news gathering
- Radio and television dialogic genres
- Radio and television reports
The calendar will be available on the first day of class. Students will find all information on the Virtual Campus: the description of the activities, teaching materials, and any necessary information for the proper follow-up of the subject.
The course will foster gender perspective in all its activities.
Methodology
The sessions of the course will be developed through different types of activities, grouped in master classes, seminars and laboratory practices.
The practices will take place in TV and radio studies as well as in the editing rooms.
In case of a change of teaching modality for health reasons, teachers will make readjustments in the schedule and methodologies.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Laboratory practices | 75 | 3 | 7, 2, 9, 3, 4, 6, 5, 8, 10, 11, 1 |
| Theoretical classes | 30 | 1.2 | 3, 5, 8, 1 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Attendance to tuttoring | 15 | 0.6 | 2, 9, 3, 4, 5, 8 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Preparing and realization of works | 165 | 6.6 | 7, 2, 9, 3, 4, 6, 5, 8, 10, 11, 1 |
Assessment
The acquisition of skills and knowledges of Production and Expression of Audiovisual Genres course, will be assessed through different methods:
- Written exam, 30% in the final grade
- Laboratory practices, 50% in the final grade
- Exercises commissioned in the seminars, 20% in the final grade
To pass the subject, it is essential to have participated in the three types of evaluation activities proposed. In the event of compulsory absence, this must be justified to the teacher as soon as possible.
The student who performs any irregularity (copy, plagiarism, identity theft...) that can lead to a significant variation of his/her qualification of any evaluation act, will be qualified with a 0 on this particular act of evaluation. In the case of presenting several irregularities, the final grade of the course will be 0.
Reassessment
The student will be entitled to the revaluation of the course if he or she has been evaluated of a set of activities the weight of which equals to a minimum of 2/3 of the total grade, considering that:
- To have access to this reassessment, the previous grades should be equal or greater than 3.5
- It won’t be possible to recover individually those failed practices made in group
- Only practices that have been previously performed and have been suspended can be reassessed
- The recovery must be requested from the responsible teachers in the terms established after communicating the evaluation notes.
The results obtained in the reassessment will be the final score for the part assessed in the reevaluation.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Practices | 50% | 8 | 0.32 | 2, 9, 3, 4, 6, 5, 8, 10, 11, 1 |
| Seminars (participation and written exercices) | 20% | 4 | 0.16 | 7, 9, 3, 4, 6, 5, 8, 10, 1 |
| Theory exam | 30% | 3 | 0.12 | 7, 3, 4, 6, 5, 11, 1 |
Bibliography
Basic bibliography
- Balsebre, Armand; Mateu, Manuel i Vidal, David (1998). La entrevista en radio, televisión y prensa, Madrid: Cátedra
- Cebrián Herreros, Mariano (1992): Géneros informativos audiovisuales: radio, televisión, periodismo gráfico, cine, video , Madrid: Editorial Ciencia 3 Distribución
- Comas, Eva (2009) La ràdio en essència: els sons de la realitat a la ràdio informativa, Barcelona: Trípodos – Facultat de Comunicació Blanquerna
- López, Celestino J. i Prósper, José (1999) : Elaboración de noticias y reportajes audiovisuales, València: Fundación Universitaria San Pablo CEU
- Oliva, Llúcia i Sitjà, Xavier (2007) Las noticies en radio y televisión: periodismo audiovisual en el siglo XXI, Omega, Barcelona
- Rodero, Emma (2001) : Manual práctico para la realización de entrevistas y reportajes para la radio, Libreria Cervantes, Salamanca.
- Vilalta, Jaume (2006): El espíritu del reportaje, Barcelona: Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona
Further reading
- Arfuch, Leonor (2004). La entrevista, una invención dialógica, Barcelona: Ediciones Paidós
- Barroso, Jaime (2009). Realización de documentales y reportajes: Técnicas y estrategias del rodaje en el campo, Madrid: Síntesis
- Brichs, Xavier (2004). Reflejos de la realidad. Así son y así se hacen los mejores programas de reportajes de la televisión, Barcelona: Ed. Cims/Midac
- De Latorre, Blanca i Llauradó, Ester (1999). Una imatge val més. La feina de l'ENG-videoperiodisme, Barcelona: Ed. Pòrtic
- Fernández, Federico i Martínez, José (2004). Manual básico de lenguaje y narrativa audiovisual, Barcelona: Ediciones Paidós
- Halperin, Jorge (2004): La entrevista periodística. Intimidades de la conversación pública, Barcelona: Ediciones Paidós
- Marin, Carles (coord.) (2017). Reporterismo de televisión. Guia de buenas prácticas del reportero audiovisual Barcelona: Gedisa
- Martínez Costa, M. Pilar i Herrera, Susana (2008) La crónica radiofónica, Madrid: Ediciones IORTV
- Martínez Costa, M. Pilar (coord.) (2002). Información radiofònica, Barcelona: Ariel Comunicación
- Vilalta, Jaume (2007). El reportero en acción. Noticia, reportaje y documental en televisión, Barcelona: Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona