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Multimedia Journalism
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1. The purpose of this course is to provide intermediate and advanced training on multimedia journalism, especially regarding the creation of new storytelling techniques developed on digital platforms. 2. Besides this hands-on training, the course will also examine the Digital Revolution and the creation of a global Information Society, with a special focus on the effects these phenomena are having on the media in general, and on journalism in particular. 3. Students will learn how to develop multimedia projects, working with different formats, such as text, hypertext, photos, video, animation, databases, etc. The digital technology training will be placed within journalistic contexts, such as responsible reporting, clear writing, critical thinking, ethical principles, etc. Learning Outcomes By the end of the course, students will be able to 1. Produce news stories that can combine different formats of media, such as text, hypertext, photos, video, animation, databases, etc. 2. Identify and analyze storytelling techniques and tools adopted by the news industry will be in a better position to take advantage of the opportunities offered by digital technologies in the journalism field 3. Understand the Digital Revolution’s consequences for journalism, how new technologies have changed the ways we gather, produce, distribute and consume news around the world. 4. Use the tools and resources used in multimedia production 5. Demonstrate skills in the areas of filming, editing, and publishing video reports 6. Demonstrate familiarity with the ethics and integrity that have distinguished the media industry 7. Understand how to produce stories that combine media elements including, text, images, audio, video, and interactive graphics. 8. Understand how to produce and publish stories across various media platforms. Course Content The course has two components: a seminar session, based on lectures, readings, case studies, and discussions about the ongoing transformations in the media and journalism environments; and a computer lab session dedicated to hands-on experience with the development of multimedia journalism projects for digital platforms. The first component helps students understand the rapidly changing media environment where journalism is practiced nowadays and the creation of a new media ecosystem. The second component intends to give the students tools to work with multimedia narratives more attuned with this new “mediascape.” • Introduction and overview: Multimedia journalism- Taxonomy of terms Journalists’ changing role History and Platforms for multimedia journalism Multimedia reporting tools • Cross-Media Convergence What is cross-media convergence? How does convergence fit into multimedia storytelling? Effects of convergence The Multimedia Newsroom • Digital animation Definition of basic concepts such as pre-production, production, postproduction, keyframing, in-betweens, character vs. effects animation. Visualizing and animating brief story ideas. Planning and producing animations • Packaging the multimedia story Conceptualizing multimedia story. How to plan a story to incorporate several media in effective ways Storyboard development: Planning a multimedia project through the use of storyboarding – laying the story out visually Putting all the pieces together in one package How to bundle story pieces effectively • Testing a package before launch • Legal and Ethical concerns in multimedia journalism Copyright and ownership Slander Privacy Manipulation of digital images, audio, and video – what’s right and what’s wrong with this picture Assignments Requirements • Blogs: Each student will be responsible to publish at least five blog posts throughout the semester, on any cultural, political event. At least a couple of posts of each student must include a video or a slideshow. • Multimedia project: The multimedia project is a journalistic package that combines text, audio, photos, video, animation, and other elements to tell one or several related stories. The text must follow AP style, although adaptations of those rules are acceptable, considering the nature of new media. The projects will be developed in a group of between three to five and each student will publish blogs related to their project, describing its evolution and, if possible, including multimedia pieces, such as video, photos, audio, etc. The project is a journalistic package compiled in Adobe Flash, including text combined with multimedia elements, such as video, audio, and photos. |
| Credit hours/ Marks:- 3 |
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