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Mills, J., The Broadcast Voice, Focal Press, 2004
Trewin, J., Presenting on TV and Radio, Focal Press, 2003
Fleming, C., The Radio Handbook, Routledge, 2002
Ray, V., The Television News Handbook, McMillan, 2003
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Workshops every week with preparation of TV and radio packages outside of the workshop. Typically, the workshop sessions once a week (100% of contact time) will include formative feedback from teaching staff on story choices and treatments, programme content, and recording and production techniques. Independent study will involve research (typically 20%), setting up items, including production meetings with other students (30%) and recording and editing material for radio, TV and online (50%).

Key Information Set Data:
32% scheduled L&T activities
68% guided independent learning

Students will work in news teams to devise and present both pre-recorded packages, voice reports and voice-overs as well as live news bulletins including political , and sports reporting. Students will research, record, present and edit a radio and television package and select, write and present a series of radio and TV news bulletins throughout the newsdays and contribute online material.

Continual Assessment on performance within workshop 50% [Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5]

An ASSIGNMENT of 4 x 1 minute TV and /or radio packages 50% [Learning Outcomes 3, 4 & 5]

Key Information Set Data:
100% practical

Broadcast Newsroom and portable equipment.
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.