JOUR4302

Students in this course can expect to learn skills in understanding convergence journalism and visual roles and responsibilities in newsrooms, understanding basic video news production using a DSLR, and using those to create a portfolio of still images with significant journalistic content. Students will study some concept and theory, plus approaches in covering story events and using a variety of technologies to gather, edit, and disseminate stories. Students will look at ways to tailor stories for print, broadcast, web, and mobile reporting, and talk about the differences in audience and will study ethics all along the way, too. Students will get photo-nerdy. They will learn production skills that include visual grammar and application, how to use a DSLR camera for both still and video images, and how to use light and color to tell news and feature stories. Plus, students will learn to edit photos and video for great images and for great stories.

prereq: [JOUR 3004 or 3004H], JOUR 3101, JOUR 3102, Jour major

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