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Writing and Voice Recording in Audiovisual Media

Code: 104973 ECTS Credits: 6
2024/2025
Degree Type Year
2501933 Journalism OB 1

Contact

Name:
Natividad Ramajo Hernandez
Email:
natividad.ramajo@uab.cat

Teachers

Pedro Manuel Molina Rodríguez-Navas

Teaching groups languages

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Prerequisites

Be able to express themselves correctly in Spanish and / or Catalan, both in writing and orally. Know the Spanish and Catalan grammar.


Objectives and Contextualisation


The aim of the course is to provide basic knowledge about journalistic writing and narrative appropriate to audiovisual media and from a theoretical and practical point of view. The course aims to provide students with theoretical concepts and basic techniques for writing and oral transcription of journalistic texts adapted to audiovisual perception and the characteristics of audiovisual genres.


Competences

  • Be familiar with and apply the theoretical and practical foundations of journalistic writing and narrative and its applications in the different genres, media and formats.
  • Demonstrate a self-learning and self-demanding capacity to ensure an efficient job.
  • 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.
  • Students can apply the knowledge to their own work or vocation in a professional manner and have the powers generally demonstrated by preparing and defending arguments and solving problems within their area of study.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
  • Take account of social, economic and environmental impacts when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
  • Take sex- or gender-based inequalities into consideration when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
  • Use one's imagination with flexibility, originality and ease.
  • Value diversity and multiculturalism as a foundation for teamwork.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Adapt written texts to the specific needs implied by the use of technologies and their systems to process, produce and relay information.
  2. Analyse the sex- or gender-based inequalities and the gender biases present in one's own area of knowledge.
  3. Communicate using language that is not sexist or discriminatory.
  4. Consider how gender stereotypes and roles impinge on the exercise of the profession.
  5. Demonstrate a self-learning and self-demanding capacity to ensure an efficient job.
  6. Distinguish theories of journalistic writing and narrative to apply them to journalistic genres in audiovisual media.
  7. Distinguish theories of journalistic writing and narrative to apply them to journalistic genres in multimedia formats.
  8. Identify the social, economic and environmental implications of academic and professional activities within one's own area of knowledge.
  9. Manage time effectively.
  10. Research, select and arrange in hierarchical order any kind of source and useful document to develop communication products.
  11. Students can apply the knowledge to their own work or vocation in a professional manner and have the powers generally demonstrated by preparing and defending arguments and solving problems within their area of study.
  12. Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
  13. Use one's imagination with flexibility, originality and ease.
  14. Value diversity and multiculturalism as a foundation for teamwork.

Content

1. Introduction: Sound understanding and technological mediation

2. Basic notions about writing and audiovisual narrative

3. Basic notions about ethics and journalistic deontology

4. Voice, speech and prosody

5. Macrostructure

6. Microstructure

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.


Activities and Methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Laboratory Practices 33 1.32 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14
Master Classes 15 0.6 1, 6, 7
Tutorship 6 0.24
Type: Supervised      
Review 3 0.12 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Type: Autonomous      
Autonomous Activity 75 3 

Directed activities:
										
											
										
											a) Master classes: explanation of the theoretical and practical concepts.
										
											
										
											b) Practices in the Laboratory: the two main objectives are that the students realize writings and audiovisual journalistic narrations and they work the professional use of the voice.
										
											
										
											- Supervised activities:
										
											
										
											Individual or group face-to-face tutorials and knowledge assessment.
										
											
										
											- Autonomous activities.
										
											
										
											Students must do the readings indicated as compulsory and all the activities planned for the correct development of the practices in the Laboratory; in addition to the study with a comprehensive reading of the basic bibliography. 

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.


Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Practical laboratory tests 60% 16.5 0.66 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Written exam 40% 1.5 0.06 1, 6, 7 

- Written exam (40%)
										
											- Practical laboratory tests (60%)
										
											
										
											The final grade will be the sum of the score obtained. It is essential to take the two parts to pass the subject. The average will not be possible if one of them is suspended. Students must write without spelling, grammatical or syntactical errors, making good use of language.


RECOVERY:
										
											During the weeks of re-evaluation, the suspended part or parts will be recovered.
The proposed teaching methodology and evaluation may undergo some modification depending on the restrictions that the health authorities impose

This course does not provide for the single assessment system.

 

Bibliography

Basic:

Alsius, Salvador (1998). Ètica i periodisme. Editorial Pòrtic. Barcelona.

Blanch, Margarita y Lázaro, Patricia (2010). Aula de Locución. Cátedra: Madrid

Huertas Bailén, Amparo y Perona Páez, Juan José (1999). Redacción y locución en medios audiovisuales: la radio. Bosch: Barcelona.

Langer, John (2000). La televisión sensacionalista. El periodismo popular y las "otras noticias". Paidós: Barcelona.

Mayoral, Javier (coord.); Sapag, Pablo; Huerta, Armando y Díez, Francisco Javier (2008). Redacción periodística en televisión. Síntesis: Madrid.

Complementary:

Boyd, Andrew, Stewart, Peter, Alexander, Ray (2008). Broadcast Journalism: Techniques of Radio and Television News. Focal Press: Oxford

Cano Muñoz, Isidro (2005). El don de la palabra: hablar para convencer. Thomsom: Madrid.

Cebrían Herrero, Mariano (2004). La información en televisión. Obsesión mercantil y política. Gedisa: Barcelona.

Dale Carnegie (2009). Cómo hablar bien en público. Elhasa:  Madrid.

Ortiz Sobrino, Miguel Ángel y Pérez Ornia, José Ramón (2006). Claves para elaborar la información en Radioy Televisión. IORTV:Madrid.

Oliva, Llúcia i Sitjà, Xavier (1999). Las noticias en televisión. IORTV: Madrid. 

Rodero, Emma (2003). Locución Radiofónica. IORTV: Madrid.

Wulfemeyer,K. Tim (2009). Beginning Radio and TV Newswriting: A self-instructional learning experience. Iowa University Press: Iowa.

 


Software

No specific software is used.

Language list

Name Group Language Semester Turn
(PLAB) Practical laboratories 11 Spanish second semester morning-mixed
(PLAB) Practical laboratories 12 Catalan second semester morning-mixed
(PLAB) Practical laboratories 13 Spanish second semester morning-mixed
(PLAB) Practical laboratories 21 Spanish second semester morning-mixed
(PLAB) Practical laboratories 22 Catalan second semester morning-mixed
(PLAB) Practical laboratories 23 Catalan second semester morning-mixed
(TE) Theory 1 Spanish second semester morning-mixed
(TE) Theory 2 Spanish second semester morning-mixed