Course Number: BU.BRVDPR1
Course Name: Broadcast Video Production 1
Prerequisite: Advanced Video Production
Course Description:  This course builds on the skills developed by students in Advanced Video Production 1 & 2. It is a laboratory-workshop class of students responsible for providing a cablecast through the school’s video system of news and feature stories. The duties of the students will include writing, videotaping, editing, and performing in video segments of events, programs and personalities connected to life at the school. The students will extend their knowledge of broadcast journalism skills and techniques, and demonstrate advanced skills in communication with the audience; including production of news packages, as well as the development of more extensive treatments and/or storyboards that demonstrate storytelling and critical thinking skills based on the Pre-production, Production and Post production phases of video production. The course also includes the production of community, education, and persona video programs. This course is appropriate for students who are preparing for careers in communication media or journalism. All students will be expected to work within the frameworks of both journalistic/informational content and graphic/visual/aural content, demonstrating proficiency in effective communication with the intended audience in the creation of the narrative form, as well as the ability to integrate visual and aural content. Students will be expected to produce both individually and in groups. (4/04)
Course Length: 2 semesters
Period Length: 1
Grade Level:  11-12 grade(s)
Credit Per Semester:1.0 (Practical Art or Elective)