BA (HONS) Broadcast Media

Induction Chit Chat

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.

Your grades count towards to you final weighting.

You have to complete all the modules in the year and pass them to pass the degree.

This is a time of transformation

1st year attitude 3rd year reality

It’s not really that bad

Bachelors degree

Honours degree

More academic

More independent

Independence Year

You have to learn to work on your own

Develop your own practice

Develop your own ideas

Learn to work for yourself

Mature attitudeMake your own decisions

Make your own timetables

Develop your own ideas

Realise the learning from the last couple of years

What is it like being a third year…

Third year SHOULD be hard work

There are only 8 months to go!!

Stayed focused Be organised Use the resources Use the staff Rinse what you can out

of this place

There are distractions…

Parties – forget them

Holidays – they can wait

Drinking – only for creative purposes.

Money…

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.

Rob Greens and myself are personal tutors.

Lorraine Roberts in students support.

DR LANCE DANN Brighton University since January last year Ravensbourne before that for a few years Worked as a writer, sound designer, radio

producer, new media designer and academic Second year as Course Leader

WHO ARE YOU AGAIN

CONTACTS FOR MEEmail: L.Dann@brighton.ac.uk

Room: Staff office at Level 5

Facebook: Lance PH Dann LecturerTwitter: LanceDannSkype: DrLanceLecturer

Appointmets: Monday, Wednesday or Friday.

Follow appointlet link either on Student Central or on the bottom of my emails.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

BACK UP YOUR WORK IN TWO PLACES! THERE ARE NO

EXCUSES! ALL MARKS COUNT PLEASE DO THIS… I BEG YOU!

LB302ADVANCED VIDEO PRODUCTION

First Semester with Archie

Advanced film documentary making techniques.

Not all technical, also deals with the craft of documentary form and how to tell stories in the edit.

Suitable if you want to work with visual media, post production, news, camera, O/B, research and er docs.

LB302 Assessment

Produce a 10-20 minute documentary feature as part of a small group plus essay.

Deadline in Early January

LB303

Advanced Radio Production

First Semester with Katherine

Study advanced radio production techniques.

Look at lots of interesting and innovative forms of radio from around the world.

Build on learning in radio feature making and sound design.

Suited to those who want to follow a radio or reporting pathway.

Assessment LB 303

Produce a 15-minute factual package plus essay.

Submitted Late January

LB304Digital Media Content: Design, Production & Broadcast

First Semester with me and guests.

Look at the multitude of digital media platforms, their influence on traditional media forms and look at way to work with them and profit from them.

Get you ready for working in the new media environment.

Show you that there are other options than just applying to the big media companies.

LB 304 Assessment

Work as team on a Prototype Project and make a pitch pack.

Write 2000 word essay on new media case study.

Submit essay and project pack before Xmas and then individually pitch your project in January.

LB306Final Individual Project

First and second semester with Lance and Rob plus your own specialised tutor.

40 credits

This is where you find a topic, read about it, find a question, research and write about, produce a project that deals with it and then write a concluding paper (ulp!).

This is where you get to really express your ideas and the heart of your learning.

LB306 AssessmentInitial Research Report (8000 words) by the End of JanuaryProduce a film, radio programme, doc etc that you direct, write, research and take the lead on by MayWrite a 3000 word contextual conclusion by May

LB305 Specialised Production Role: Showreel Second Semester with Archie.

Work on other people’s final projects and create a showreel from the footage.

Submit online showreel and multi-media description of production processes.

LB301

Audio-visual narratives

Second Semester withXavier Mendik

Theory based module examining different kinds of narrative.

Particularly looking at different kinds of film

Submission an essay plan and a 3000 word essay.

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.