Advanced Broadcast Media

Paper Code: 
CJMC 503
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

This course will enable the students to -

  1. Understand the basics of television programmes.
  2. Understand various formats of TV and Radio transmission. 
  3. Understand the process of TV production and video editing techniques

 

Course Outcomes (COs):

Course

Learning outcomes

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment

Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

CJMC 503

Advanced Broadcast Media

CO118: Students will be able to understand the working pattern of electronic media platform.

CO119: Students will able to familiarize the students with the basic techniques of broadcasting.

CO120: Students will be able to have understanding of electronic media content creation.

CO121: Students will be having the knowledge of script writing.

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Field practical

 

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

 

 

10.00
  • Video and Broadcast Technology—Analogue and Digital technology, frame and field, scanning process, Interlaced and Progressive scanning,
  • Composite video signal, Component video signal, Resolution, Aspect ratio. CCU, Colour bars, Vectorscope, Waveform monitor,
  • Broadcast standards-- NTSC, PAL, SECAM and HDTV, Telecine.

 

10.00
Unit II: 
II
  • Transmission technologies—Terrestrial transmission; Satellite and Cable broadcasting; Up linking and Down linking,
  • Conditional Access System, DTH; IPTV.

 

15.00
Unit III: 
III
  • Production Personnels and their Role and responsibilities in Radio and Television production
  • Motion picture production- Three Phases, preparation of budget for various types of Radio and Television Programmes,
  • Preparation of script break-down - artiste, location/setting-preparation of shooting schedule.

 

15.00
Unit IV: 
IV
  • Introduction to lighting: Why do we need to light, mandatory light, creative light,Characteristics of light: Quality, quantity, colour temperature, three point lighting, Natural Lighting: Sunlight and the realities, cyclorama, Soft and hard light sources.
10.00
Unit V: 
V
  • Linear and Non-linear Editing, On-line and off-line editing, in cam edit. Principles of editing-Matching actions, Continuity, Matching Tone, Cut in , Cut away, Jump cut, compression and expansion of time, Cross cutting, Circular and Non-Linear cutting, Axial cut.
Essential Readings: 
  • Handbook of Television Production (2006).ZettlWadsWorth, New Delhi.
  • Visual Journalism: A Guide for News Media Professionals (2016). Sudhanshu Digar. Random Publications, New Delhi.
  • Writing for Television (2004). Gerald Kelsey. Unistar Books Pvt. Ltd., Chandigarh
  • The Right Way to Use a Camera(1974). Laurence Mallory.Rupa Co., Calcutta
  • How to Write Film Screenplays: Illustrations for AspiringScreenplay Writers and Readers (2009).Nirmal Kumar Chawdhary .Kanishka Publishers, Distributers, New Delhi.
  • The Art of MovieMaking: A Complete Handbook of Film Technology and Terminology (2012). V.P Dhar.YKing Books, Jaipur
  • Filming reality: The Independent Documentary Movement in India (2015).Shoma A. Chatterji, SAGE, New Delhi.
  • Digital Broadcasting Journalism, (2003). J.K. Sharma.AuthorsPress, Delhi.
  • Digital Newsroom (2005).BalakrishanAjyer.Authors Press, Delhi.

 

Academic Year: 
2021-2022
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