OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE:
The objectives of the course in keeping with the need to ensure broadcast industry-ready professionals, include:
1. To introduce the learners to the basic principles of broadcast journalism
2. To familiarise the learners to the principles of broadcast writing
3. To introduce the learners to news gathering practices specific to broadcasting
4. To teach learners the process of stitching together different elements of broadcast journalism – writing, recording, shooting, narrating and editing
5. To enable learners to cover stories across the city from various beats using the tools and techniques of broadcast journalism
COURSE FRAMEWORK
Total No. of Sessions: 10
Class Contact Hours: 30
Coursework Hours: 20
Session Duration: 2.5 hours (the duration may vary depending on the topic discussed)
This course is designed for advanced students of journalism at the undergraduate and post-graduate level. The course assumes that students have a basic understanding of journalism as a practice. The objective of the course is to ensure that participants understand the basics of broadcast journalism and are able to effectively put together simple audio and video stories.
The focus of the course will be on principles of broadcast journalism – news gathering designed to capture audio and video apart from the usual reportorial craft of information gathering, fact checking and interviewing, writing for the ear to go with the audio and video, and putting these elements together in specific formats that are part of the broadcasting conventions of story-telling.
The course is designed to be practical using technologies easily accessible to students – mobile phones as recording devices with some additional devices for professional quality, use of relatively inexpensive or free software – and the output of the student work to be of a quality that is ready to broadcast on multiple platforms, especially social media.
The students will be expected to gather news, record audio and video, write broadcast copy and deliver stories. At the end of the course, each participant should have at least three audio and three video stories.
THIS COURSE WILL BE CONDUCTED ONLINE VIA GOOGLE MEET
SCHEDULE:
• Thursday, August 24
• Monday, August 28
• Monday, September 4
• Monday, September 11
• Monday, September 18
• Monday, September 25
• Monday, October 2
• Monday, October 9
• Monday, October 23
• Monday, October 30
• Monday, October 6 (extra in case of session cancellation)
• Tuesday, October 7 (extra in case of session cancellation)
TIMING: 5:00 – 7:30 pm
[PLEASE NOTE: There may be changes in schedule in case of any emergency.]
ABOUT THE RESOURCE PERSON:
Aloke Thakore is a journalist, researcher and teacher, and entrepreneur. He has been a newsroom coach for various publications including some editions of The Times of India (Chennai and Kochi), Hindustan Times, People (magazine), Bangalore Mirror, and Mumbai Mirror; and a management and editorial consultant for The Emirates Evening Post (Dubai).
Having started his career with The Statesman in Calcutta, Thakore worked as a Producer with ABNI and its merged avatar of CNBC, and was responsible for the channel output from Mumbai. He used to write a media watch column for The Hoot (thehoot.org) called ‘Hammer and Tongs’, and has also conducted, and consulted on, media research and training initiatives of the Media Foundation, Panos South Asia, and PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action & Research), Mumbai, World Bank among others.
A Media Leadership Fellow of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Thakore has a Ph.D. in Journalism & Mass Communication from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an AM in International Relations from the University of Chicago, and an MS in Journalism from the University of Kansas. He has a bachelor’s degree in English from Calcutta University, and a law degree from the Government Law College, Mumbai. He has run a media company specialising in publications, educational programming and research for over 15 years, and also founded the Journalism Mentor programme that has seen its students working in leading news media organisations.
PROGRAMME FEES: Rs. 10,500/- for 10 sessions (inclusive of taxes)
BANK DETAILS:
Name of the Account: FONT & PIXEL MEDIA LLP
Bank A/c No.: 50200031972537
Account Type: CURRENT
Name of the Bank: HDFC BANK
Bank Branch: AHURA CENTRE – MUMBAI
IFSC CODE: HDFC0000543
Payments can be made by NEFT transfer or using any UPI platform.
REGISTRATION FORM:
Please click here and submit the registration form to enrol for the course, after making the payment:
ONLY THOSE WHO MAKE THE PAYMENT AND FILL OUT THE FORM WILL BE CONSIDERED REGISTERED FOR THE COURSE.
Last Date for Registration: August 23, 2023
IMPORTANT: Learners will be eligible to receive a certificate of course completion only if they attend a minimum of eight sessions, and complete all the assignments and class tasks that are mandated by the course.
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