Commentary and Presentation
Code: 103056 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2501928 Audiovisual Communication | OB | 1 | 2 |
Contact
- Name:
- Armand Balsebre Torroja
- Email:
- armand.balsebre@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- spanish (spa)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- No
Prerequisites
This subject don’t have specific prerequisites. It’s a continuity of knowledge, competences and skills acquired in two subjects in the previous half year: Audiovisual and Written Comunicative Languages and Audiovisual Script.
Classes will held either in Catalan or in Spanish, but the main vehicular language is the Spanish.
Objectives and Contextualisation
This subject is in the field of the Audiovisual Language. This field consists of six subjects, the main aim of which is providing specific expertise about creative strategies in the use of different audiovisual languages (TV, movies, radio, multimedia). In the particular case of Speaking and Hosting, students will be trained for making a professional and creative use of voice in audiovisual media.
Competences
- Be familiar with and use different audiovisual languages.
- Disseminate the area's knowledge and innovations.
- Manage time effectively.
- Show leadership, negotiation and team-working capacity, as well as problem-solving skills.
- Use advanced technologies for optimum professional development.
- Use one's imagination with flexibility, originality and ease.
Learning Outcomes
- Apply theoretical principles to audiovisual processes.
- Develop quality audiovisual products and introduce an innovative aesthetic therein.
- Disseminate the area's knowledge and innovations.
- Manage time effectively.
- Master technological tools in audiovisual production.
- Show leadership, negotiation and team-working capacity, as well as problem-solving skills.
- Use advanced technologies for optimum professional development.
- Use one's imagination with flexibility, originality and ease.
Content
Syllabus
- The sound in Audiovisual Communication.
- Specific features of the microphone-voice.
- Speech, phonation, breathing, attitude.
- Rhythm voice. Rhythmic function of pauses. Music dimension of Voice. Melodic contrast.
- Interrelationship between writing and speaking.
- Voice and perception factors. Voice stereotypes.
- Voice improvisation. Narrative and expressive strategies.
- Dialogue. Communicative and expressive strategies of voice in the interview and talking shows.
- Speaking in TV. Reading with teleprompter.
- The monologue and TV talk show. The voice performance in hosting TV programs.
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. In case of a change of teaching modality for health reasons, teachers will make readjustments in the schedule and methodologies.
Methodology
Methodology
This training area about the creative process in speaking and hosting is one of the first stages for a good knowledge of the radio and TV voice.
Theoretical contents in master class are at the service of practical exercises in Laboratory. Master classes will need of listening to the different exercises.
The practical exercises are oriented to the planning, production and recording different audio clips.
Time devoted to preparing practical exercises belongs to the students’ autonomous tasks as well as readings and listening proposed by the professor.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Laboratory practice | 30 | 1.2 | 1, 8, 6, 3, 5, 4, 2, 7 |
| Master class | 15 | 0.6 | 1, 8, 3, 4 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Assessment activities | 7.5 | 0.3 | 1, 8, 3, 5, 4, 2, 7 |
| Tutorial | 7.5 | 0.3 | 8, 3, 4 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Readings, listenings, planning exercises | 82.5 | 3.3 | 1, 8, 4, 2, 7 |
Assessment
Assessment
Assessment system is divided in three different parts. The share of this different parts is:
a) Attendance to Seminars: 20%
a) Theoretical exercise: Written test about acquired knowledge throughout school year: 30%
b) Laboratory practice: 50%
Assessment criteria are directly related to the learning achievements. The final grade of students will be determined by the weighted average between marks acquired in different asessment activities. All laboratory exercises are mandatory.
The proposed teaching methodology and evaluation activities may undergo some modifications depending on the health authorities' attendance restrictions.
Reassessment activities
The last three weeks of the academic year are dedicated to reassessment activities for students who have obtained a grade lower than 5 in the final weighted average. In any case the reassessment activities are available to increase marks.
They aren’t revalued tests: the previous exercises to the final exercise.
The main features of this reassessment activities will be promptly communicated.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attendance to Seminars | 20% | 1.5 | 0.06 | 6, 3 |
| Laboratory practice | 50% | 3.75 | 0.15 | 1, 8, 6, 5, 4, 2, 7 |
| Written test | 30% | 2.25 | 0.09 | 1, 8, 3, 4 |
Bibliography
Basic:
Arnheim, Rudolf (1980): Estética radiofónica. Barcelona, Gustavo Gili, 1980.
Balsebre, A. (2012): El lenguaje radiofónico. Madrid, Cátedra (6ª edició).
Balsebre, Armand (2007): Voces microfónicas para una historia de la radio y la televisión, pp. 205-244, en BUSTOS SÁNCHEZ, Inés (ed.), La Voz. La técnica y la expresión, Barcelona, Paidotribo (2ª edició).
Balsebre, Armand (2008): La entrevista en Radio, en Balsebre, Armand; Mateu, Manel y Vidal, David: La entrevista en radio, televisión y prensa, Madrid, Cátedra (2ª edició).
Blanch, Margarita; Lázaro, Patrícia (2010): Aula de locución. Madrid. Cátedra.
Gutiérrez, María y Perona, Juanjo (2002): Teoría y técnica del lenguaje radiofónico, Bosch, Barcelona.
Huertas, Amparo y Perona, Juanjo (1999). Redacción y locución en medios audiovisuales: la radio. Barcelona, Bosch.
Merayo Pérez, A. (1992): Para entender la radio. Estructura del proceso informativo radiofónico. Publicaciones Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca.
Rodríguez, Ángel (1998): La dimensión sonora del lenguaje audiovisual. Barcelona. Paidós.
Serna, Assumpta (2002): El trabajo del actor de cine, Madrid, Cátedra.
Software
1. Speech, phonation, breathing, attitude, speed control.
2. Voice and perception factors. Function of breaks. Specific features of the microphone-voice. Knowing how to speak, knowing how to listen.
3. Function short sentences, word repetitions. Melodic contrast. Descriptive chronicle as a tool to promote mental imagery.
4. Verbal improvisation.
5. On-camera voice-over. Teleprompter reading. Narrative and expressive strategies of on-camera stand-up