James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2001

IA2103:04

Radio 2

Townsville

Inadmissable Subject Combination: CA1113 IA1113

48 lectures/workshops. March/April intensive block mode.

Available to DipIndgStud and BIndgStud students.

This subject will build on what was taught in Radio 1. Students will learn how to produce and present complex magazine programs, research and record discussions and interviews, write basic radio news and produce radio promotions. They will work with digital field recorders and digital editing equipment. The main form of assessment will be a live to air radio program broadcast from the Centre on the local Indigenous station 4K1G.

Learning Objectives:

  1. research and produce or present a radio magazine program including interviews and information relevant to their Indigenous audience;
  2. record music and performance in the field;
  3. do complex interviews;
  4. produce or present a live discussion;
  5. edit on digital and analogue equipment;
  6. write radio news bulletins;
  7. write and mix a pre-recorded promotion;
  8. operate the radio studio live to air.

Assessment by one news bulletin (10%); one live magazine program (40%); one promotion (20%); attendance and participation (20%); one off-campus assignment (10%).