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- Title
Review of Radio Studies teaching: From on-air to the Web: Re-defining the radio producer.
- Authors
Berryman, Bruce
- Abstract
This article emphasizes the need for students taking up Bachelor of Communication in Media Studies at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology to generate radio program materials produced specifically for the digital and Web forms of radio and radio-like services. In a changing radio labor market, graduates of the course require the core skills of conventional radio production to produce work of a high quality that can be listened to on any platform: analogue or digital. They also need to develop skills in re-purposing and re-packaging material for different publication outcomes, ones that may interact with other media on a range of different platforms. Recent changes to the degree highlight some of the issues involved in preparing students for the contemporary and evolving Australian radio industry. In the first year of the programme, students do not learn radio or television production discretely, but rather writing, editing and publishing media texts. In this programme they are introduced to audio through exercises in listening, recording and analysis. In the second year they develop techniques in live-to-air presentation and production. From this point the programme moves into the area of repackaging pieces for online delivery. In the third year students are involved in the coverage of festivals and conferences. The structure of a festival requires a rapid turnaround in preparing and producing material for on-air broadcast and re-packaging it to include ancillary information in the form of text, images and links for online distribution. Each year students develop an online showcase of their work. The sites usually are not as flash as those developed by web professionals, but importantly they are designed and built by the group as a collaborative project that illustrates the various tasks, processes and interrelationships that exist in this form of production.
- Subjects
VICTORIA; ACTIVITY programs in education; INTERNET in education; RADIO production &; direction; RADIO programs; DIGITAL communications; DIGITAL electronics; ROYAL Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia)
- Publication
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, 2004, Vol 2, Issue 2, p118
- ISSN
1476-4504
- Publication type
Article