Visual Communication: Journalism for Television

Course & Year, Teacher, Tags
Visual Communication: Journalism for Television, 2013. Aernout. J.

Factual Infomation/Description
Class built around weekly shooting and editting of short news stories. Learn what it is like to produce and work in television. Camera's and microphones are provided by LUC (on the cheap, although better than nothing), but you need arrange your own software for editting.

Courseload, Assignments & Difficulty
Assignments consist of producing video's. Criteria for grading are vague, namely Aernout's perception of your "development" during the course.

A Review from a student who was content with the course
- Given Aernout is not present during filming and editting, you are mostly left to your own devices. This is sometimes liberating, sometimes frustrating.

- Learning how to tell stories with images rather than words is like trying to become proficient in a new language in 8 weeks. Fun, but tough.

- Making a video a week is a lot of work. This course will devour your time.

- Aernout teaches through elaborate ancedotes from his time as a war-correspondent. He also invites the students to dinner!