Skills for Broadcast Media

One of the cohorts that we have taught extensively in the recent past is NQ Broadcast Media. To freshen up the servicing input from the Communication side, the Senior Lecturers from the respective curriculum areas held a couple of meetings to discuss the best way forward. As part of the team's commitment to delivering a Communication curriculum that is fresh, engaging, challenging and vocationally relevant, for the speaking task at level 5, we asked the students to  deliver a presentation where they considered one or more of the following subjects familiar to them:

• Editing
• Camera
• Scriptwriting
• Radio
• Sound
• Digital Media

The summative brief was flexible enough that the students could shape their own talks, demonstrating their interest and level of expertise. Students were encouraged to deliver their talk on jobs that would be suitable for them in the future. Skills development in the following areas were analysed:

• Storyboard Artist
• Production Assistant
• 3D imaging
• Website design
• Commercial video production
• Post production sound
• Photographer
• Image engineering
• Lens based media

The students reported back that they enjoyed presenting on these topics and didn't feel like it was an actual assessent in a sense, as they felt they were doing a "fun" and "what we like doing anyway" type of a project. Rest assured though, the criteria for assessment was rigorous, valid and pitched at the correct level for these students' learning abilities and the results were very good indeed. Some students were assessed at Level 6 as a result of their industry.

 

Feedback sessions with input from student, peer and lecturer enhanced the learning experience considerably. A selection of presentation topics from the students can be seen below as way of evidencing the quality of the work. This is a brief that we would hope would be built upon for future students on the Broadcast Media curriulum area.

Subjects delivered

As the students looked at the brief, the following ideas were created, resulting in a great variety of topics, such as: work experience at the Scottish Media Academy, pitching a script for a screenplay written by one of the students, radio: past, present and future, online journalism and the part social media plays in news gathering, reflecting on work experience in the field of Broadcast Media, how the WHALE access course bridged the gap from raw ideas to meaningful application of vocational skills.
 

 

 

Example 1 from Mark Hetherington

Example 2 from Mark Hetherington