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Student Media I
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:8.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:26:02
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | KF_003 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 1.00 | ECTS: | 1.50 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Communication Sciences; Communication Theory | Target Audience: | Communication Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Marta Herca | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 2 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 4 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 6 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 12 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 16 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 3 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 6 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 3 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 6 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 12 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Completed course Introduction to the Studies and Speciality. | ||||||||
| Objective: | Student media operates as a laboratory where students practice developing of qualitative media materials. During the study course students learn to develop a story from ideas, plan gathering of material, process it, work with text, photography and sound and prepare work until its publishing stage. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Student media and how it works, journalism ethics | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Basic principles of an interview, genres | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 3 | Preparing for an interview - research, biography, structure, questions | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Technical processing of the interview - text encryption, editing | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Language, structure. Title, lead, subtitles | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Photography as part of an interview: portraits, environment | Classes | 1.00 | computer room | |||||
| 7 | Publishing online, social media stories | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Student media and how it works, journalism ethics | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Basic principles of an interview, genres | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||||
| 3 | Preparing for an interview - research, biography, structure, questions | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Technical processing of the interview - text encryption, editing | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Language, structure. Title, lead, subtitles | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Photography as part of an interview: portraits, environment | Classes | 0.50 | computer room | |||||
| 7 | Publishing online, social media stories | Classes | 0.50 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | During the course, the student develops one high-quality video story, prepares it for publication in student media and social media. Exact task and evaluation criteria - in the first in the lesson. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Workshop and small assignments during the week (30%), a media publication in the end of the course (70%). | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | In the end of the workshop students know when and why video is the best way to tell the story, and they know if they have what it takes - time, human resources, equipment. | ||||||||
| Skills: | All the aspects and phases of video making is well known - development of ideas, script writing, drawing the storyboard, filming, editing, postproduction, publishing. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Ability to deconstruct and analyze a video story in a proffesional way. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Bradshaw, Paul. The Online Journalism Handbook : Skills to Survive and Thrive in the Digital Age, 2018 | ||||||||
| 2 | Lambert, Joe. Digital Storytelling. Capturing Lives, Creating Community. 2012. | ||||||||
| 3 | Multimedia Storytelling for Digital Communicators in a Multiplatform World. Seth Gitner, 2015. (pdf e-studijās) | ||||||||
| 4 | Video Journalism for the Web: A Practical Introduction to Documentary Storytelling, Kurt Lancaster, 2013. (pdf e-studijās) | ||||||||
| 5 | Frierson, M. Film and Video Editing Theory: How Editing Creates Meaning, 2018. | ||||||||
| 6 | Using Documentary Storytelling Techniques for Film, Video, the Internet and Digital Media Projects, 2014. | ||||||||
| 7 | Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking Fast and Slow, 2011. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Thomson, Roy, Bowen J., Christoper. Grammar of Editing, 2009. | ||||||||
| 2 | Excellence in Online Journalism, David Craig, 2010. (pdf e-studijās) | ||||||||
