Course: COMM 2200
Division: Fine Arts, Comm, and New Media
Department: Communications
Title: TV Production
Semester Approved: Fall 2022
Five-Year Review Semester: Summer 2027
End Semester: Summer 2028
Catalog Description: This course will emphasize the practical application of TV production. Students will learn the elements of video production, editing techniques, and broadcast journalism writing skills. They will use a field video camera and post-production editing equipment to produce individual and team assignments.
Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 3; Lecture: 3; Lab: 0
Justification: This course is an introduction to the basic principles, procedures, and techniques of television production as it applies to live studio programming. Beginning instruction is offered in studio camera operation, audio for television, and television directing, emphasizing underlying principles of video technology.
Student Learning Outcomes: Students will learn to operate field video cameras, post-production editing equipment and videotape recorders. This course will provide an opportunity for students to create a variety of video productions, allowing students to express personal creativity while developing the ability to conceptualize story ideas and effectively translate these ideas into video productions. This outcome will be assessed through video presentations, storyboards, assignments, and classroom discussion.
Students will understand and undertake the jobs necessary to produce remote programs. These jobs include: planning, scripting, rehearsing and executing a remote shoot. Students will write scripts for two different news stories. These stories will demonstrate competency in the areas of news gathering and writing to inform a target audience. This outcome will be assessed through video presentations, assignments, and classroom discussion.
Students will understand the importance of completing work on a deadline. This ability to complete work on a deadline will be assessed through assignment completion before work is due to air on SnowTV.
Content: The following topics will be covered in class: Terminology for broadcast news; Elements of television news; Fundamentals of camera operation; Importance of lighting in video production; Audio and sound control in the video; Digital editing techniques and principles; Performing techniques for reporters; Electronic newsgathering. An understanding of these topics will be assessed through video presentations, assignments, and classroom discussions.This course's creative and communication mediums welcome diverse perspectives and encourage diversity as part of the creative process. Students are taught to recognize and include their strengths, differences, abilities, and needs as well as their classmates' strengths, differences, abilities, and needs.
Key Performance Indicators: Storyboards 10 to 20%
Video presentations 40 to 50%
Classroom discussion 5 to 15%
Assignments 20 to 30%
Final Exam 10 to 20%
Representative Text and/or Supplies: No textbook required
Pedagogy Statement: This course is designed to allow students the opportunity to practice critical thinking skills through TV production; through a variety of teaching methods, students are taught to recognize their strengths, differences, abilities, and needs as well as those individual strengths, differences, abilities, and needs of their classmates. Students will be encouraged to recognize that various opinions, insights, backgrounds, and cultures add value to this area of study.
Instructional Mediums: Lecture
Maximum Class Size: 15
Optimum Class Size: 12
