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2025 unit information
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1 x 2-hour on-campus seminar per week
1 x 1-hour online seminar per week
Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.
Develop your visual storytelling skills to produce compelling content for broadcast, online or mobile media. Using a practice-based, hands-on approach, you will research, interview, script, record and edit video and sound to create engaging and inspiring visual content. You will learn to identify the kinds of stories that lend themselves to video treatment, be guided through the process of capturing and editing clips using industry-standard tools and practice your on-screen presentation skills. You will explore the rapidly changing landscape for video journalism, and the ethical and legal aspects of mobile video, as well as produce news and current affairs packages to build your professional portfolio.
Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)
Work collaboratively and cooperatively as part of a team to identify, research and present visually coherent, interesting and topical news and current affairs stories
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO8: Global Citizenship
Conduct interviews and gather appropriate footage and research to produce compelling video news packages
GLO2: Communication
GLO4: Critical thinking
Script, present to camera and narrate information to a range of audiences in a way that demonstrates a clear understanding of the visual grammar and conventions of news and current affairs reporting
GLO3: Digital literacy
Work independently and collaboratively as part of a team to research and apply ethical and legal judgments associated with video journalism to all stages of the production process
GLO6: Self Management
Critically analyse and reflect on how contemporary political, economic, and technological changes are affecting video journalism as a story-telling medium
Create stories that demonstrate a clear understanding of the visual grammar and conventions of news and current affairs reporting
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
The texts and reading list for ALJ221 can be found via the University Library. Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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