LO1 - Understand and replicate how a broadcast team workflow operates to create an engaging and entertaining broadcast production targeted at a specific audience.

LO2 - Distinguish between successful and lacking broadcasts and identify the reasons for this, using this to inform your group production.

LO3 - Showcase the technical skills required to craft an engaging broadcast suitable for a defined audience.

Formative Assessment 1

Students will create group contracts establishing roles and responsibilities

Assessment 1 – Media Profile & Analysis

Students are tasked with creating a profile of the current esports broadcasting market for their desired game and competition level. They must then assess the quality of the pieces and conclude positive traits that could inspire their own broadcast, and/or negative traits to avoid.

LO2.

Assessment 2 – Broadcast Portfolio

Students are tasked with creating a broadcast that meets a given brief (minimum criteria) with higher marks awarded for hitting additional criteria based on extra detail or content that improve the overall quality of the broadcast. This will be submitted alongside extra broadcast components that will form the content included in the broadcast. (Workflow documents, graphic packages, rundowns, extra pre-recorded content etc. – as defined in the assessment brief).

LO1, LO3.

Broadcasting is an already technically advanced area, but esports audiences demand a more engaging and developed area than traditional sports or media broadcast audiences. In this module, students will learn what considerations are desired from a broadcast creation process, and how to operate the industry standard equipment in the esports hub at Staffordshire University. Students will analyse sector and non-sector broadcasts to isolate key strengths and pitfalls and use this evaluation to improve your own production as part of a broadcast team.

Esports Production and Streaming

Live & Remote Broadcast Production

Broadcast Software & Equipment

Asset Design Philosophy

Streaming Platforms

NDI

Technical Setup

Computer Networking

Cable Routing

Camera Operation

Audio & Lighting Design

Roles & Responsibilities

Directing

Floor Management

Observing & Camera Operating

Video Mixing & Replay Operations

Light and Audio Technicians

What puts esports broadcasts at the forefront of the industry? What can esports learn from other sectors? These are the questions on the lips of the broadcast crews creating award winning live content to cover the most popular esports games across the globe. In this module, students use dedicated facilities such as our Esports Hub – an interactive broadcast studio packed with industry standard equipment – to work as part of a broadcast team creating broadcasts that would fit in among industry output.

Students will be expected to engage in a variety of learning strategies, including but not limited to:

Tutor led formal presentations
Workshops and group-based tutorials
Discussion/debate cantered learning
Participation in group activities, including presentations and discussion panels
Directed reading
Self-directed/independent research
Self-lead production meetings & rehearsals
Technology supported activities (e.g., use of VR facilities and Esports Hub)

Pizzi, S. & Jones, G. (2014) A Broadcast Engineering Tutorial for Non-Engineers. Taylor & Francis Group.

Bing, B. (2015) Next-Generation Video Coding and Streaming. Wiley-Blackwell

Ciccarelli, P. (2013) Networking Basics 2. John Wiley & Sons.

Dunham, R. (2015) Stage Lighting: Fundamentals and Applications. Abingdon: Routledge.

Izhaki, R. (2018) Mixing Audio: Concepts, Practices and Tools. Abingdon: Routledge.

Readman, M. (2003) Teaching Scriptwriting, Screenplay and storyboards for film and TV Production. Bfi Education.

Block, B. (2008) The Visual Story: Creating the visual structure of film, TV and Digital Media. Focal.

Performance Lighting Design: How to Light for the Stage, Concerts, and Live Events 2007

Sell, J. (2015) E-Sports Broadcasting.

Miller, G. & Owens, J. (2008) Video Production Handbook. 4th edn. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

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