Advanced Audio and Broadcasting Practice
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 36 hours face to face + blended
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.
2024 teaching periods
| Hawthorn Higher Ed. Semester 1 |
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Aims and objectives
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.
1. Evaluate and demonstrate understanding of the professional demands placed on radio (and podcast) content producers.
2. Critically analyse long form radio features to evaluate how production and narrative techniques form a cohesive package for audiences.
3. Apply critical research analysis of the ways audio storytelling constructs and conveys meaning to short and long form story telling techniques.
4. 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.
5. Research, develop and facilitate narrative, story and plot ideas for short and extended radio and podcast features.
Unit Learning Outcomes (ULO)
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
2. Critically analyse long form radio features to evaluate how production and narrative techniques form a cohesive package for audiences.
3. Apply critical research analysis of the ways audio storytelling constructs and conveys meaning to short and long form story telling techniques.
4. 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.
5. Research, develop and facilitate narrative, story and plot ideas for short and extended radio and podcast features.
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
On-Campus Lab | 1 | 12 | 12 |
On-Campus Workshop | 2 | 12 | 24 |
Specified Activities Various | 6 | 12 | 72 |
Unspecified Activities Various | 2.5 | 12 | 42 |
TOTAL | 3.5 | 12 | 150 hours |
Assessment
| Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
| Assignment | Individual | 15% | 1, 3, 4, 5 |
| Presentation and Report | Individual | 35% | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
| Applied Project | Individual | 50% | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
Content
- Research, Planning, Developing and testing a short and long form audio feature.
- Pitching an audio proposal to key stakeholders
- Researching and conducting in depth interviewing
- Developing narrative structure and plot advancement in long and short form storytelling
- 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.
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required texts will be made available in the Unit Outline.