This course introduces students to gain the basic techniques used in Radio &Television, besides the intellectual skills of how to evaluate various media contents, also gain practical skills of how to produce different formats of radio and television production.
Intended Learning Outcomes
- Discuss characteristics of Broadcasting.
- Define broadcasting as an industry.
- List broadcast equipment, including the camera and tapes.
- Define formats and terminology of radio and television.
- Identify the basics of preparing, writing, and presenting radio and television programs.
- Illustrate the features of radio as a mass medium.
- Write radio scripts.
- Identify outside Broadcast channels and types.
- Identify the different patterns of radio and TV programs, their characteristics, and methods of production.
- Acquire an overview of the different stages of radio &TV production starting from choosing ideas, preparation, presentation, photography, editing and directing and finally producing different patterns of radio and TV programs.
- Recognize the different types of programs (ex: cultural and educational programs) and their role in the communities.
- Recognize the specialized radio stations and specialized channels and their role in meeting the needs of their target audience.
- Identify the main camera parts and the electronic features.
- Point the elements of effective visual composition.
- Understand the main camera movements.
- Explain the advantages of digital broadcasting over analogue broadcasting.