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BA (HONS)
Broadcast Media
What we’re gonna do today…
Run through how the course
is run
What to expect
What important decisions
you have to make today.
Prepare you for the best
year of your education.
Then we’re going to set your
induction task
NEW ACADEMIC YEAR
Final Year of Course.
At the end of this year
you will get a mark of 1st,
2/1, 2/2, 3rd, a basic pass
or a fail.
These are worked out
from your average grade
across the year.
The usual rules apply…
120 credits of modules.
5 modules to complete.
You have to pass them all to earn the degree.
Any you fail you can either retrieve over the
summer or re-take the next year (depending
on your grades etc).
This is a time of transformation
1st year attitude
3rd year reality
What is the difference from your last
year in University?
Bachelors degree
Honours degree
More academic
You will be more independent
For most of you this is your final year of education!
What is Honours degree
learning?
More enquiring
Not just training
Rounding you out as a
person.
Helping you to look at and
think about the world
differently.
Make you the sort of person
who can lead and instigate
change – not just react to it.
Independence Year
Figure things out for yourself.
Develop your own practice
Develop your own ideas
Learn to work for yourself
Trust yourself and your ideas.
Mature attitude
Manage your timetable
Know and understand your
deadlines.
Manage you workloads.
Prepare you for working in
industry.
Life in the final year.
You final year SHOULD be
hard work!!
There are only 8 months to
go!!
Stayed focused
Be organised
Use the resources
Use the staff
Get whatever you can out
of the place
How will you do?
If you work as you did before your grade from last
year will drop between 5 and 10%
If you found the last year of the FdA hard you will
have even harder this year.
You cannot avoid or swerve engaging with theory.
It is what you signed up for?
If you work hard AND enjoy the course your grades
can increase prodigiously.
There are distractions…
Parties – forget them (okay moderate them)
Holidays – they can wait…
Drinking – only for creative purposes…
Student loans?
1st year attitude
3rd year reality
Talk to someone
If you’re having problems them please talk to us.
Family – Money – Work –Personal issues
Let us KNOW what is happening.
Either myself or Phil Connolly will be you personal tutor, talk to me about academic issues.
Student support.
Believe in the Course!
This course really works.
This is my fourth year running it.
High pass rate.
High retention (i.e. few people leave).
High employment rate.
Great feedback from external examiners and
students.
Improvements made to it all the time?
CONTACTS FOR MEEmail: [email protected]
Room: Staff office at Level 6
Twitter: LanceDann
Skype: DrLanceLecturer
Appointmets: Either Monday,
Tuesday or Friday lunchtime.
Follow appointlet link either on
Student Central or on the bottom
of my emails.
SEMESTER 1October to January
DIGITAL MEDIA Prepares you for changes in
industry.
Teaches you how to develop, sell
and run creative ideas.
Look at the development of
digital media and mobile
platforms and what they mean.
Work in a small group developing
the pitch and sales plan for a
digital media project.
Write 2500 analysis of how a
media franchise employs the
web.
Led by Lance Dann
PRACTICAL OPTION 1ADVANCED VIDEO PRODUCTION:
DOCUMENTARY
First Semester with specialist broadcast doc lecturer
Individually produce a 10-20 minute documentary feature.
Focus on advanced storytelling, sophisticated research techniques and production methods.
Examine and discuss a range of documentary forms.
Taught by Catherine Donaldson
PRACTICAL OPTION 2
ADVANCED RADIO PRODUCTION First Semester with specialist
broadcast radio producer and reporter.
Individually produce a 10-20 minute radio feature (plus contextual essay).
Focus on advanced storytelling, sophisticated research techniques and recording and production methodologies
Examine and discuss a range of radio forms.
Led by Lance Dann and Jim Horn
PRACTICAL OPTION 3
CREATIVE SOUND DESIGN
Post Production module
Advanced recording, Pro Tools and music creation skills.
Engage with sound theory.
Produce a 5 minute sound piece with accompanying essay 2500 word essay
Ran last year with 100% pass rate and high grades.
Taught by Lance Dann and Jim Horn
FINAL INDIVIDUAL PROJECT
Run across first and second semester
40 credits
This is where you find a topic: you read about it, find a question, research and the create a piece and write a paper that addresses that question.
Assessed on i) a presentation of ideas ii) completed practical piece iii) 6000 word written report.
Led by Rob Greens
Final Individual Project
Piece can be radio, film, doc, cross-media or live media.
This is where you realise your ideas.
This is your showpiece for the degree.
This is where you have the chance to try out something you’ve always wanted to do.
Semester 2January to May 2015
PORTFOLIO Work on each other’s final
projects in specialist roles.
Create an online showreel of
your work.
Gives you a broad range of
work to show when you work
in industry.
Allows you to pitch yourself to
a range of employers.
Led by Catherine Donaldson
PRODUCTION CULTURES
Based on visiting lecturers and your work experiences
Discussion of the cultures of professional practice.
Prepares you for work in industry.
You will interview pratitioners and write 3000 word essay.
Led by Lance Dann
Student Reps
We need to decide who
they are…
Two meetings a year
We need representatives
who came from Post
Production, TV, Broadcast
Media, Radio and from
outside the University.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
BACK UP YOUR WORK
IN TWO PLACES!
THERE ARE NO EXCUSES!
ALL MARKS COUNT
PLEASE DO THIS…
I BEG YOU!