Media Lab editing facilities, Radio studios, Camera equipment loans,TV/DVD/Video/Audio playback facilities.
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.

Jim Beaman, Interviewing for Radio (London: Routledge, 2000).
Andrew Boyd, Broadcast Journalism: Techniques of Radio & TV News (Oxford: Focal Press, 1997).
Des Lyver & Graham Swainson, Basics of Video Production (Oxford: Focal Press, 1999).
Vincent McInerney, Writing for Radio (Manchester: MUP, 2001).
Martin Shingler & Cindy Wieringa, On Air: Methods and Meanings in Radio (London: Arnold, 1999).
Janet Truin, Presenting on TV and Radio (Oxford: Focal, 2003).
BBC Safety Net, http://www.bbc-safety.co.uk/rules/intro.html (2000).

There will be a series of weekly workshops and seminars, allowing you to consider the practical application of programme forms. There will be a series of non-assessed pieces of work, which will provide you with a basis for the final piece of assessment. There will be an opportunity to practically create radio and television sequences through workshops and tutorials which contribute to the final portfolio.

This module focuses primarily on the practical development of broadcast forms and examines the relationship in depth between the theoretical and historical development of programmes and their practical application through the compilation of either a radio or a television programme. The emphasis
will be on the reflection of this relationship and how the production of content is influenced by form and scheduling. The module also considers the ways in which programmes are read by audiences and how this shapes their textual construction and circulation.

The module considers the ways in which professional, technical and formal choices have a strong influence upon the creation of a television/radio programme and the extent to which they develop or re-shift existing media practices.

A completed television or radio programme. [Learning Outcomes 3,4]
A production log. [Learning Outcomes 1,2]