Advanced Video Production and 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 allows students to develop advanced research, screenwriting and production skills to produce video content for a number of different contexts, including online and social media production, short form documentary and live broadcasting.
1.Design, research and implement a long form feature or documentary video project using advanced production and editing skills;
2.Identify and apply knowledge of new forms of video storytelling, narrative structures and shooting to media research and production processes;
3.Collaborate in a team broadcasting environment to produce video content that reflects industry standard production processes with a high level of personal ethical accountability;
4.Research, apply and communicate an advanced understanding of issues specific to the investigation and production of video, new conceptions of video audiences and transmedia dissemination practices.
Unit Learning Outcomes (ULO)
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
2.Identify and apply knowledge of new forms of video storytelling, narrative structures and shooting to media research and production processes;
3.Collaborate in a team broadcasting environment to produce video content that reflects industry standard production processes with a high level of personal ethical accountability;
4.Research, apply and communicate an advanced understanding of issues specific to the investigation and production of video, new conceptions of video audiences and transmedia dissemination practices.
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Live Online Lecture | 1 | 12 | 12 |
On-Campus Lab | 2 | 12 | 24 |
Specified Activities Various | 6 | 12 | 72 |
Unspecified Activities Various | 3.5 | 12 | 42 |
TOTAL | 150 hours |
Assessment
| Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
| Design Tasks and Research | Individual | 30% | 2,3 |
| Final Pitch and Presentation | Individual | 30% | 2,4 |
| Project | Individual | 40% | 1,2 |
Content
- The integration of video content and storytelling into multiplatform and online environments
- Research about new forms of video storytelling, narrative structures and shooting, including mobile phone film making, citizen journalism and short form documentary
- Researching, conceptualising and producing video news for transmedia audiences – from broadcast to social media
- Advanced production and editing skills specific to research and writing for long form video features, information and documentary styles
- Graduate Attribute – Communication Skills: Verbal communication
- Graduate Attribute – Communication Skills: Communicating using different media
- Graduate Attribute – Teamwork Skills: Collaboration and negotiation
- 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.