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Broadcast course details
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12 WEEK BROADCAST COURSE DETAILS
The course is based at Cardiff University, which has radio and television studios, professional sound and video recording and editing equipment, a computerised broadcasting editorial system, and a journalism library. The course includes:
- News gathering, selection, research, and writing
- Working with microphones and cameras
- Interview and presentation techniques
- Structuring items and programmes
- Video and sound tape editing
- Website content production (writing for the web, video and audio streaming)
- The roles of the producer, the editor and the reporter
- Team management
- Issues of ethics, law and responsibility facing the broadcaster
- Issues-related modules e.g. environment, health etc.
- Modules on specialist reporting e.g. sport, investigative etc.
- A one-day course on working in hostile environments
- Introduction to documentary making
The course is an intensive programme of discussions, demonstrations and practical exercises that require active participation by all course members.
It simulates realistic broadcasting activities under close professional guidance.
Participants prepare news bulletins and current affairs programmes for radio and television under realistic conditions.
They research and produce news packages (research stories, film interviews and actuality, edit, write television and radio scripts, work from archive and agency tapes, build up a bulletin).
They shape and produce full news programmes using the studio and gallery.
The Instructors
The Foundation's instructors are all experienced professionals with a wide and varied background in broadcast journalism. They are supported by working broadcasters to give specialist training and offer a wide exposure to the great variety of broadcast journalism in Britain.
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