BA (HONS)

Broadcast Media

What we’re gonna do today…

Run through how the course

is run

What to expect

What important decisions

you have to make today.

Prepare you for the best

year of your education.

Then we’re going to set your

induction task

NEW ACADEMIC YEAR

Final Year of Course.

At the end of this year

you will get a mark of 1st,

2/1, 2/2, 3rd, a basic pass

or a fail.

These are worked out

from your average grade

across the year.

The usual rules apply…

120 credits of modules.

5 modules to complete.

You have to pass them all to earn the degree.

Any you fail you can either retrieve over the

summer or re-take the next year (depending

on your grades etc).

This is a time of transformation

1st year attitude

3rd year reality

What is the difference from your last

year in University?

Bachelors degree

Honours degree

More academic

You will be more independent

For most of you this is your final year of education!

What is Honours degree

learning?

More enquiring

Not just training

Rounding you out as a

person.

Helping you to look at and

think about the world

differently.

Make you the sort of person

who can lead and instigate

change – not just react to it.

Independence Year

Figure things out for yourself.

Develop your own practice

Develop your own ideas

Learn to work for yourself

Trust yourself and your ideas.

Mature attitude

Manage your timetable

Know and understand your

deadlines.

Manage you workloads.

Prepare you for working in

industry.

Life in the final year.

You final year SHOULD be

hard work!!

There are only 8 months to

go!!

Stayed focused

Be organised

Use the resources

Use the staff

Get whatever you can out

of the place

How will you do?

If you work as you did before your grade from last

year will drop between 5 and 10%

If you found the last year of the FdA hard you will

have even harder this year.

You cannot avoid or swerve engaging with theory.

It is what you signed up for?

If you work hard AND enjoy the course your grades

can increase prodigiously.

There are distractions…

Parties – forget them (okay moderate them)

Holidays – they can wait…

Drinking – only for creative purposes…

Student loans?

1st year attitude

3rd year reality

Talk to someone

If you’re having problems them please talk to us.

Family – Money – Work –Personal issues

Let us KNOW what is happening.

Either myself or Phil Connolly will be you personal tutor, talk to me about academic issues.

Student support.

Believe in the Course!

This course really works.

This is my fourth year running it.

High pass rate.

High retention (i.e. few people leave).

High employment rate.

Great feedback from external examiners and

students.

Improvements made to it all the time?

CONTACTS FOR MEEmail: L.Dann@brighton.ac.uk

Room: Staff office at Level 6

Twitter: LanceDann

Skype: DrLanceLecturer

Appointmets: Either Monday,

Tuesday or Friday lunchtime.

Follow appointlet link either on

Student Central or on the bottom

of my emails.

SEMESTER 1October to January

DIGITAL MEDIA Prepares you for changes in

industry.

Teaches you how to develop, sell

and run creative ideas.

Look at the development of

digital media and mobile

platforms and what they mean.

Work in a small group developing

the pitch and sales plan for a

digital media project.

Write 2500 analysis of how a

media franchise employs the

web.

Led by Lance Dann

PRACTICAL OPTION 1ADVANCED VIDEO PRODUCTION:

DOCUMENTARY

First Semester with specialist broadcast doc lecturer

Individually produce a 10-20 minute documentary feature.

Focus on advanced storytelling, sophisticated research techniques and production methods.

Examine and discuss a range of documentary forms.

Taught by Catherine Donaldson

PRACTICAL OPTION 2

ADVANCED RADIO PRODUCTION First Semester with specialist

broadcast radio producer and reporter.

Individually produce a 10-20 minute radio feature (plus contextual essay).

Focus on advanced storytelling, sophisticated research techniques and recording and production methodologies

Examine and discuss a range of radio forms.

Led by Lance Dann and Jim Horn

PRACTICAL OPTION 3

CREATIVE SOUND DESIGN

Post Production module

Advanced recording, Pro Tools and music creation skills.

Engage with sound theory.

Produce a 5 minute sound piece with accompanying essay 2500 word essay

Ran last year with 100% pass rate and high grades.

Taught by Lance Dann and Jim Horn

FINAL INDIVIDUAL PROJECT

Run across first and second semester

40 credits

This is where you find a topic: you read about it, find a question, research and the create a piece and write a paper that addresses that question.

Assessed on i) a presentation of ideas ii) completed practical piece iii) 6000 word written report.

Led by Rob Greens

Final Individual Project

Piece can be radio, film, doc, cross-media or live media.

This is where you realise your ideas.

This is your showpiece for the degree.

This is where you have the chance to try out something you’ve always wanted to do.

Semester 2January to May 2015

PORTFOLIO Work on each other’s final

projects in specialist roles.

Create an online showreel of

your work.

Gives you a broad range of

work to show when you work

in industry.

Allows you to pitch yourself to

a range of employers.

Led by Catherine Donaldson

PRODUCTION CULTURES

Based on visiting lecturers and your work experiences

Discussion of the cultures of professional practice.

Prepares you for work in industry.

You will interview pratitioners and write 3000 word essay.

Led by Lance Dann

Student Reps

We need to decide who

they are…

Two meetings a year

We need representatives

who came from Post

Production, TV, Broadcast

Media, Radio and from

outside the University.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

BACK UP YOUR WORK

IN TWO PLACES!

THERE ARE NO EXCUSES!

ALL MARKS COUNT

PLEASE DO THIS…

I BEG YOU!