Television Production Workshop

Objectives

The Television Production Workshop course allows you to experience first-hand how a magazine, a report and an interview are produced, incorporating into these genres the techniques and new formats that are emerging with content platforms and the rise of on-demand programme consumption. In all cases, the production and realisation of audiovisual products is worked on from the beginning: conception of the idea, design, production and realisation live on the set.

The aim is to consolidate the knowledge acquired in previous subjects and to build a complex audiovisual product that integrates different genres in a single programme, the magazine. It also delves into multi-camera production, blog recording, knowledge of the technical equipment of a studio and a production booth, and the roles and work dynamics in a television studio.

The study also analyses the factors that explain why the number of minutes spent in front of the television is falling every year when, paradoxically, more audiovisual content is consumed than ever through mobile devices, mainly smartphones and tablets.

Learning outcomes

• Apply knowledge to develop an audiovisual product from the beginning (idea) to the final materialization (production and post-production), working as a team.
• Learn the basics of audiovisual language and television narrative, as well as the challenges and opportunities posed by changes in the sector.
• Use tools that facilitate filming and the editing process, both visual and sound, typical of any audiovisual project.
• Master and know how to use the equipment that makes up a television set and a production booth.
• It seeks the best format to transmit informative, entertainment, fiction and non-fiction content to all types of audiences, whether specialized or not.
• Create conceptually innovative formats, keeping in mind the rise of multi-platform media.
• Knows how to react to complex, adverse and unexpected situations that require quick solutions.
• He/she is able to lead and/or be a member of a work team and correctly manage the time needed to make a proposal and bring it to fruition.
• Analyzes the structures, contents and codes of both linear and on-demand television programming.
• Critically evaluates television products being broadcast, paying particular attention to the crew, budget and filming/editing difficulties.
• Use gender-respectful language.
• Design interventions in a way that is respectful of gender issues.

Competencies

General skills

• Acquire skills in project design and management by making appropriate decisions and using problem solving strategies.
• Demonstrate interpersonal skills and be able to adapt to new situations and work under pressure.
• Organize and plan tasks related to professional performance through proper time management and timing of these tasks.

Specific skills

• Create content and organize management and direction processes for the cinema, television, radio and interactive media.
• Create content and organize management and direction processes for the cinema, television, radio and interactive media.
• Develop narrative skills for different audiovisual and multimedia products and apply techniques for creating fiction, non-fiction and entertainment screenplays.
• Express oneself fluently and communicatively, orally and in writing, in Catalan, Spanish and English, using the discourse of traditional media and new digital media.
• Master audiovisual and multimedia technology and apply it to the different stages in the creative process and thus be able to adapt to different work environments.

Basic skills

• Students can apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and have competencies typically demonstrated through drafting and defending arguments and solving problems in their field of study.

Core skills

• Become the protagonist of one's own learning process in order to achieve personal and professional growth and acquire all-round training for living and learning in a context of respect for linguistic, social, cultural, gender and economic diversity.
• Display professional skills in complex multidisciplinary contexts, working in networked teams, whether face-to-face or online, through use of information and communication technology.
• Use oral, written and audiovisual forms of communication, in one's own language and in foreign languages, with a high standard of use, form and content.

Content

1. Television: in danger or in transformation?
   1. An uncertain future due to new viewing habits
   2. Rise of on-demand content platforms and live broadcasts
   3. Presentation of television genres. Hybridization of formats
2. Multi-camera production and roles in an audiovisual production
   1. The axis rule
   2. The television set and the technical means
   3. The production booth
   4. Roles and hierarchies in an audiovisual production
   5. The role of the public
   6. Space, set and intention. The scenic game
3. The television interview
   1. Concept and background
   2. Classification
   3. Guidelines for pre-production, production and execution
4. The television report
   1. Definition and classification
   2. The demand of the script
   3. Filming and visual and sound editing
   4. Guidelines for pre-production, production and execution
5. The television magazine
   1. Origin and characteristics
   2. Production needs
   3. Set changes
   4. Guidelines for pre-production, production and execution
6. The crystal ball
   1. The fusion of formats
   2. The TV that is coming
   3. Review of concepts

Evaluation

• Production of an interview, with follow-up of the work carried out: 25%
• Production of a report, with follow-up of the work carried out: 20%
• Production of a magazine, with follow-up of the work carried out: 35%
• Activities through the Virtual Campus, including the final closing exercise of the subject: 15%
• Attendance and participation: 5%

Assessment is continuous. To pass the course, it is necessary to attend 80% of the practical and theoretical sessions.

Practical activities must be carried out in accordance with the specific guidelines indicated for each of them. The magazine includes various genres of those worked on and/or explained throughout the course.

If necessary, students may choose to recover two of the internships within the period established in the academic calendar.

Methodology

In order to achieve the knowledge of the syllabus, the following are combined:

• Practical workshops: sessions on set to learn how to master the equipment and record the interview and the magazine live, always devoting a final moment to assessing how the team works. In this case, the students are divided into subgroups.
• Theoretical classes with the entire group: viewing of programmes on air or those that have marked a before and after on the schedules.
• Tutoring: individual and group.
• Self-employment
• Spot readings

Bibliography

Key references

• Barroso García, Jaime (1996). Realización de los géneros televisivos. Síntesis.
• Barroso García, Jaime (2018). Realización televisiva: De la TDT a la IPTV. Fragua.
• Castillo, José María (2016). Televisión, realización y lenguaje audiovisual (3 ed.). Instituto Oficial de Radio y Televisión.
• Laura Saula (2018). El futur incert de la televisió: Els avenços digitals i els nous hàbits de consum marquen les tendències del sector. Retrieved from https://www.raco.cat/index.php/Capcalera/article/view/338124/428995
• Terán, Borja (2019). Tele: Los 99 ingredientes de la televisión que deja huella. Somos Libros.

Further reading

Teachers will provide complementary bibliography and compulsory reading throughout the course via the Virtual Campus.