Course Description and Outcomes

This is an intermediate course designed for majors to develop skills in electronic field production (EFP) and electronic news gathering (ENG). Curriculum focuses on EFP and and ENG for broadcast, including EFP protocols, shooting B-roll, stand-ups and packages for news broadcast and via the Internet. Skills developed in this course include engineering and producing for EFP, and writing, researching, interviewing, shooting and editing for ENG.

Course Goal: Increase your skill levels in EFP and ENG.

Outcomes: Through regular attendance and active participation you will be able to:
  1. evaluate current ENG production on local, regional and national levels,
  2. explain basic terminology and concepts of EFP and ENG,
  3. gather information through effective interviewing, traditional research methods, email and other electronic query, and world-wide web sources,
  4. effectively write for different applications in ENG including stand-ups, voice-overs, and on-camera narratives,
  5. shoot and engineer video for stand-ups, interviews and multi-camera production for broadcast,
  6. acquire and mix audio for EFP.
  7. effectively deliver and record stand-ups, voice-overs and narratives for stories and packages with,
  8. produce media for broadcast including B-roll, SOT, VO-SOT, stand-ups and packages,
  9. function in production positions such as field producer, photographer, and reporter, and studio positions such as producer, director, technical director, replay, graphics, audio, operator, and anchor,
  10. distribute news content over the air and via the Internet,
  11. engage in the processes of studio news production including preproduction, production, and post production.
This course is a core requirement for the Broadcast Production Track of the Mass Communication emphasis of the Communication Baccalaureate. The theory and skills indicated above are a foundation for advanced skills and critical thinking within this emphasis. This syllabus is designed to meet the course goal through application of the above outcomes.

You have a number of resources to help you achieve these, not the least of which are your peers in this program. This is a collaborative industry, one that functions through the cooperation and camaraderie of everyone involved, from the producer to the photog.

This course breaks down into a class component and a lab component. Classes will focus on outcomes dealing with producing/reporting and labs will focus on technical production.