Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
DINS-0006
Organization's ID:
DINFOS-EJC
Organization:
Defense Information School
Location:
Classroom-based
Length:
4 weeks (160 hours)
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 3 Introduction to Television Production or Digital Media Production
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to provide the knowledge and skills needed to give apprentice-level electronic journalism experience to non-broadcasters. The selected student should be serving as an electronic journalist or projected for an American Forces Radio and Television Service assignment.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Practice principles and techniques needed to produce television news and spot production
  • Demonstrate an ability to write for electronic journalism (EJ) including voice-over, stand-ups, and news coverage
  • Demonstrate ability to operate television camera systems, lighting, and non-linear editing

General Topics:

  • Write a news script
  • Explain copy interpretation and articulation principles
  • Perform operator level system checks
  • Record audio/video using camera systems
  • Demonstrate microphone selection and placement
  • Identify the elements of newsworthiness
  • Explain approaches to electronic news reporting
  • Shoot and conduct an interview
  • Perform voice-over-video
  • Perform stand up
  • Shoot and edit a news story
  • Edit a newscast
  • Describe how legal issues affect broadcast products
  • Discuss television lighting theory
  • Control/correct temperature
  • Use light intensity control measures/ use, key, fill and back lights
  • Demonstrate television lighting safety principles
  • Shoot an interview using three-point lighting
  • Shoot a four-shot sequence
  • Identify visual composition principles
  • Identify non-linear editing components
  • Demonstrate principles of non-linear editing
  • Design graphical elements
  • Perform media, import, export, compression, management
  • Demonstrate use of edit fine-tuning techniques
  • Demonstrate audio techniques
  • Write/storyboard and shoot a spot
  • Edit a command information spot
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Classroom Exercise
  • Discussion
  • Lectures
  • Practical Exercises

Methods of Assessment:

  • Examinations
  • Performance Rubrics (Checklists)
  • Quizzes

Minimum Passing Score:

70%
Supplemental Materials