Advanced Audio and Broadcasting Practice
Hawthorn
Available to incoming Study Abroad and Exchange students
Overview
This unit aims to examine how audio techniques are used to create both short and extended radio/audio features. It teaches students to be professional creative storytellers through the use of advanced audio narrative techniques with an understanding of audience and platform requirements.
Requisites
Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
26-February-2024
26-May-2024
26-May-2024
Last self-enrolment date
10-March-2024
Census date
31-March-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
12-April-2024
Results released date
02-July-2024
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Evaluate and demonstrate understanding of the professional demands placed on radio (and podcast) content producers.
- Critically analyse long form radio features to evaluate how production and narrative techniques form a cohesive package for audiences.
- Apply critical research analysis of the ways audio storytelling constructs and conveys meaning to short and long form story telling techniques.
- Develop and demonstrate research skills which can be used in combination with advanced audio production techniques to produce researched soundscapes, complex interviews and audio features.
- Research, develop and facilitate narrative, story and plot ideas for short and extended radio and podcast features.
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
---|---|---|---|
On-campus Lab | 1.00 | 12 weeks | 12 |
On-campus Workshop | 2.00 | 12 weeks | 24 |
Specified Activities Various | 6.00 | 12 weeks | 72 |
Unspecified Activities Independent Learning | 3.50 | 12 weeks | 42 |
TOTAL | 150 |
Assessment
Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
---|---|---|---|
Applied Project | Individual | 50% | 1,2,3,4,5 |
Assignment | Individual | 15% | 1,3,4,5 |
Presentation and Report | Individual | 35% | 1,2,3,4,5 |
Content
- Research, Planning, Developing and testing a short and long form audio feature.Â
- Pitching an audio proposal to key stakeholdersÂ
- Researching and conducting in depth interviewingÂ
- Developing narrative structure and plot advancement in long and short form storytellingÂ
- Analysing audio actuality features and documentaries
- Advanced Adobe Audition and Studio editing skills
- Researching and evaluating audio delivery platforms
- Graduate Attribute – Communication Skills: Verbal communication
- Graduate Attribute – Communication Skills: Communicating using different media
- Graduate Attribute – Teamwork Skills: Teamwork roles and processes
- Graduate Attribute – Digital Literacies: Information literacy
- Graduate Attribute – Digital Literacies: Technical literacy
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.