BA (Hons) Multimedia Journalism

Module: 4MZ026

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module provides you with an introduction to some of the key concepts and debates in the study of journalism. The module explores the current topics that affect how our ever-changing media industries operate and will familiarize you with the key critical theories and theorists and the main strands of thought that articulate the academic study of journalism and that explain the on-going transformations of its practices, organizations, storytelling forms and news agendas, adoption of new technologies, news values and regulatory and legal frameworks. This module also supports you in developing academic skills that will underpin your work throughout the BA (Hons) Multimedia Journalism programme.

Module: 4MZ024

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module introduces you to the required knowledge and skills for identifying, gathering, covering and writing news for print, online and broadcast news media outlets. A range of activities will be undertaken which will enable you to examine and demonstrate an initial understanding news structure as well as key drivers for news production.

Module: 4MZ030

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module introduces students to concepts and ideas about public affairs and their daily coverage by news media in the UK. The modules discuss topics such as Parliament, elections and public sector and the way in which journalist must cover those following legal and political frameworks. A range of activities will be undertaken, which will enable students to demonstrate an initial understanding of how the practice of journalism shapes and impacts on the way in which the public sector is reported.

Module: 4MZ023

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module will give you a level of understanding of radio journalism as well as the need for journalists to be multi­skilled practitioners in the news radio landscape, where news media platforms has convergent into one main digital and online medium. It aims to provide you with a clear understanding of the working practices brought about by the proliferation of news radio forms, genres and digital technologies.

Module: 4FI006

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module aims to introduce you to a variety of factual genres encompassing national and trans-national perspectives. As hybridity is seen now as an essential characteristic of factuality, this module analyses the boundaries between fact and fiction in various popular factual formats and examines a variety of critical approaches and perspectives by scholars and practitioners of film and media in relation to the production of documentary and reality TV.

Module: 4MZ027

Credits: 20

Period: 1

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This hands-on module introduces you to the basic stages of TV news production, including basic techniques of news gathering and interviewing, ability to spot a story, techniques of knowing who to ask, what to ask, how to ask, where to find out, and how to find out, speed, accuracy, filming and editing techniques, etc. The module aims to develop the editorial skills required to produce different news formats (underlays, upsounds, packages), from the research brief to the final output. Every week you will use broadcast standard recording equipment to produce short news items on relevant local issues. The module also develops writing techniques, in particular styles for TV news and scripts, getting the facts right, getting the right angle, meeting deadlines and adhering to Media Law, and presenting news techniques, accents and diction, posture, breathing, gesture, etc.

Module: 5FI008

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module aims to explore and analyse what is meant by & lsquo;representation& rsquo;. It engages with themes and debates concerning the conventional techniques, the effects, and the politics of representation and cinema/television, and uses these tools to analyse the filmic representations of social constructs such as gender, & lsquo;race& rsquo;, class and sexual identity.

Module: 5MZ032

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module will give you a level of understanding and knowledge of the legal framework that defines the practices of journalism in the UK, including key concepts .It aims to help you develop the ability to critically apply those concepts to the reporting of political, legal and judiciary issues. The module also introduce you to key ethical debates that journalists face during the newsgathering process as well as the coverage, production and distributions of news in different platforms.

Module: 5MZ041

Credits: 40

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module, closely linked to industry, investigates a range of factors changing the practice of journalism and ensures you understand industry demands and pressures. The module builds on journalism and technological skills attained at Level 4 and moves the production of news into a setting that replicates industry practice, involving the application of these skills to the production of news for multiple platforms, under real-time and deadline conditions; the same constraints faced by professional journalists. You will analyse critical aspects of contemporary journalism and work in groups to produce a daily news output, expanding your own portfolio and increasing your contacts and range of sources.

Module: 5MZ036

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

This module introduces the relevant concepts and theories of photojournalism, including the semiotic analysis of news or current affairs content. You will also learn how to produce and edit photographic news content using digital equipment and software.

Module: 5MZ033

Credits: 20

Period: 2

Type: Core

Locations: Wolverhampton City Campus

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