Thursday Syllabus

MCS 205 Principles of Broadcasting

Instructor: Instr. İbrahim Cansızoğlu
Office: 523
Office Hours: Wednesday 14:30-17:30
e-Mail: ibrahimcansizoglu@gmail.com
Phone: Ext. 324
Class Hours: Thursday 13:30-16:20

Objectives:

The main goal of this course is to teach the student the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge about television programming and internet boradcasting. Lectures in all aspects of broadcasting will be held based on the textbook and reference sources. Students will have a chance to experience different aspects of television programming with different projects. Each student will be assigned a role in a television program project. Several workshops will be held on preproduction for television and sound recording for television. Each week students are expected to read the assigned texts. At the end of the course two different television program projects will be completed. Each project will be in a different format in order to introduce the student the variety of broadcasting. Television projects prepared at the end of each production process should not exceed ten minutes.

Course Outline:

1 Oct. Introduction: Broadcasting projects

Introduction to the course, description of course projects.

8 Oct. Broadcasting Basics

Types of broadcasting, sound and audio, light and video, information technology

Jones, Graham, A Broadcast Engineering Tutorial for Non-Engineers, Oxford: Focal Press, 2005, Pp. 3-23, 61-70

15 Oct. Television Programming

Who’s who in television production, preproduction, production, postproduction.

Cury, Ivan, Directing and Producing for Television, Boston: Focal Press, 2002, Pp. 36-66

22 Oct. Television Studios & Program Formats

Television studio equipment, facilities, panel programs, music programs, news programs and commercials.

Cury, Ivan, Directing and Producing for Television, Boston: Focal Press, 2002, Pp. 12-36

29 Oct. Preproduction workshops

Selections from the Chapters 4, 7, 8 and 9 from the textbook. TBA.

5 Nov. Structure and Camera

Camera position, angle, movement, lenses

Prince, Stephen, Movies and Meaning, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2007, Pp.10-46

12 Nov. Sound for Television Programming and Basics of Moving Image Editing

Types of sound, recording sound, designing the frame, basics of moving image editing

Thompson, Roy, Grammar of the Edit, Oxford: Focal Press, 1993, Pp. 10-40

Workshop: Sound Recording for Television

19 Nov. Television Technology

Analog Color Television, Digital Audio and Video

Jones, Graham, A Broadcast Engineering Tutorial for Non-Engineers, Oxford: Focal Press, 2005, Pp. 33-61, 223-261

26 Nov. Midterm

3 Dec. Film Editing on Adobe Premier

The principles of editing for television

Prince Stephen, Movies and Meaning, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2007, Pp.159-170

10 Dec. Sound Editing, Captioning and Titles

Selections from Adobe Premier Classroom in a book, San Jose: Adobe Press, 2006.

17 Dec. Radio Frequency Waves

Electromagnetic waves, frequencies, bands, channels, analog radio standards, digital radio standards

Jones, Graham, A Broadcast Engineering Tutorial for Non-Engineers, Oxford: Focal Press, 2005, Pp. 23-33, 203-220

Radio Studio Visit

24 Dec. Radio Studios

Radio equipment, studio operations, basics of radio programming

Jones, Graham, A Broadcast Engineering Tutorial for Non-Engineers, Oxford: Focal Press, 2005, Pp. 75-117

Submission of Television Program projects

31 Dec. Internet Broadcasting

Basics of streaming, blogging, new media and broadcasting

Readings T.B.A.

7 Jan. Summary of the term

Textbook:

Cury, Ivan, Directing and Producing for Television, Boston: Focal Press, 2002

Zettl, Herbert, Television Production Handbook, London: Wadsworth Pubishing, 2005

References:

Jones, Graham, A Broadcast Engineering Tutorial for Non-Engineers, Oxford: Focal Press, 2005

Prince, Stephen, Movies and Meaning, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2007

Thompson, Roy, Grammar of the Edit, Oxford: Focal Press, 1993

Adobe Premier Classroom in a book, San Jose: Adobe Press, 2006

Attendence:

Attendance is required at all times. Students are expected to come to class fully prepared to discuss assigned readings. Some percentage of your final grade will be based on your attendance and class participation. Attending lectures in the other section is strictly forbidden.

Projects:

Projects constitute the main body of this course. Each student will contribute to one television program project. Students will have an opportunity to declare their desired roles in the projects, however last decision on role assignments will be given by the instructor. Each student will be evaluated both on their fulfillment of their individual roles and also on the end product. Each section will produce two television programs. Each program will have a different format and content. This will provide the student the opportunity to observe different dynamics in different programming formats. Teamwork is crucial and student’s willingness to conform team dynamics will be an important concern for instructor in grading.

Pop Quizes:

Pop quizzes will be unannounced. Most of the pop quizzes will be held after midterm.

Evaluation:

Students will receive a final letter grade according to the scale indicated in the university website. Performance shown in projects, midterm and participation will make up instructor's final opinion. Performance in both projects will be evaluated individually according to the sheets (each specific to the considered role) distributed in the production lectures.

Evaluation Percent

Midterm 40
Television Program Project 40
Attandance and Participation 10
Pop Quizes 10

Television Project Production weeks:

Preproduction phase should ideally finish on 11th of November. Beginning from this date to 24th of November each group has enough time to reserve a camera for the planned shooting day. Due to the limited amount of cameras present at our school each group is urged to reserve their camera and sound equipment at least ONE WEEK before the shooting date. The production weeks are between 14th of November to 6th of December. Due to the flexible nature of television programming groups are expected to organize their shootings between these dates.
Appointed students SHOULD BE present on the shooting time from its beginning till the end. Being absent on the planned shooting day without any material reason (a significant health problem, loss of a family member) most likely to result in failing the course.

Additional Readings:

Additional readings might be assigned throughout the course. Necessary information will be provided in lectures.