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Description: This course will include units on the history of print media, visual media, social media, and media literacy. Students will be instructed to achieve competency in all phases of production and on types of communication, such as interviews, features, news stories, editorials, and evaluative reviews. Additionally, students will learn about copy editing, headline writing, layout and production procedures. Journalistic ethics and the role of the school newspaper, video news program, school blog, and school social media will be explored. Working in teams, students will be required to produce several projects including: a public service announcement, a blog entry, a news photo or graphic, an advertisement or commercial, a news story (written or video), a review (written or video), and/or a profile (written or video).
What is this class
What is this class
Type: Elective
Prerequisite: None
Objectives:
1. To develop an informed and critical understanding of mass media, communications, and journalism.
2. To develop students’ writing, revising, and editing skills for a variety of genres and platforms.
3. To develop students’ ability to think critically about information received from both print and non-print media sources.
4. To develop pre-production video production skills such as script-writing and storyboarding.
5. To develop basic skills in camera operation, audio recording, lighting, blocking, page design, digital design, and the inverted pyramid style.
Expectations: The nature of this course will require collaborative work, problems solving, research, and time management. Students will be expected to use all the equipment responsibly. Students will write frequently. Reading, written homework assignments, quizzes, and tests will be given. Students will often read newspapers (both print and online), watch segments of television news programs, and interact with online and social media. Students will be encouraged to submit completed assignments to Neirad or Enlino for publication, to Blue Wave News for broadcast, and to other media sites for publication. Students are expected to choose noteworthy artifacts from their classwork and include them in their Media Studies digital portfolio.
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