Video and Audio Production

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The technical skills required to record, edit, and produce high-quality video and audio content for broadcast journalism. This includes learning how to operate cameras, microphones, and other recording equipment.

Camera operation: The basic principles of cinematography, including exposure, framing and composition, white balance, shutter speed, and aperture.
Lighting techniques: How to manipulate lighting to create mood, emphasize key elements in a scene, and create depth and texture.
Sound recording: Principles of sound design, including microphone placement, recording, mixing, and mastering.
Scriptwriting: Techniques for crafting engaging and clear scripts for news, features, and other types of video content.
Video editing: Basics of non-linear video editing software, including cutting, splicing, color grading, and special effects.
Interviewing: How to conduct interviews with subjects, ask open-ended and probing questions, and capture compelling footage.
Storytelling: Ideas and techniques for constructing engaging and persuasive stories, using elements such as character, conflict, and resolution.
Media law and ethics: Pointers for staying within legal and ethical boundaries when creating news and other journalistic content.
Design and graphics: Principles of creating effective and visually appealing motion graphics and animations for video content.
Post-production workflow: The steps involved in taking a project from raw footage to the finished product, including organization, assembly, and delivery.
News Broadcasting: This is the most traditional form of broadcast journalism. It involves the gathering, editing, and dissemination of news stories, typically through television or radio broadcasts.
Sports Broadcasting: This type of broadcasting focuses on covering live sports events such as football, basketball, baseball, soccer, hockey, and more.
Investigative Journalism: This type of journalism revolves around in-depth reporting methodologies that involve researching and interviewing sources to uncover certain aspects or stories.
Entertainment Broadcasting: This includes coverage of the latest celebrity gossip, events, and news on movies, TV shows, and music.
Documentary Production: Unlike traditional news reporting, document production is more long-form storytelling, and explores a subject in a depth and time beyond what can be explained in a news report.
Educational Production: Educational production includes content on science, technology, medicine, history, or other subjects that educate viewers on something useful or worthwhile.
Corporate Production: Some companies have their in-house production teams that manage video productions for training and public awareness purposes.
Live Event Broadcasting: This type of broadcasting usually involves a live event, including concerts, speeches, sporting events, and news.
Radio Commentary: Radio commentary or talk radio provides people platforms to share their opinions and ideas, and sometimes interviews journalists and experts on current events or newsworthy issues.
Infomercials: Infomercials are television commercials that resemble television programming but which provide detailed information regarding a particular product or service, usually in an hour-long segment.
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"Audio engineering and RF engineering are also essential parts of broadcast engineering, being their own subsets of electrical engineering."
"Broadcast engineering involves both the studio and transmitter aspects (the entire airchain), as well as remote broadcasts."
"Every station has a broadcast engineer, though one may now serve an entire station group in a city."
"In small media markets, the engineer may work on a contract basis for one or more stations as needed."
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"Audio engineering and RF engineering are also essential parts of broadcast engineering..."
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"Every station has a broadcast engineer..."
"...though one may now serve an entire station group in a city."
"In small media markets, the engineer may work on a contract basis for one or more stations as needed."
"Broadcast engineering is the field of electrical engineering..."
"...now to some extent computer engineering and information technology..."
"Broadcast engineering involves both the studio and transmitter aspects..."
"...the studio and transmitter aspects (the entire airchain)..."
"Audio engineering and RF engineering are also essential parts..."
"Audio engineering and RF engineering are also essential parts..."
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