General information


Subject type: Mandatory

Coordinator: Maddalena Fedele

Trimester: First term

Credits: 4

Teaching staff: 

Joan Jordi Miralles Broto
Joan Jordi Miralles Broto 

Skills


Specific skills
  • E5_Design and make an audiovisual product (consisting of still or moving images), taking into account both its technical and artistic aspects, in all its components

  • E6_Design, plan and perform with multicamera, live and on set, according to all facets of the product (both in the artistic design and content and in the technique)

  • E8_Design the lighting needs of a space according to its characteristics and the final purpose of the product to be recorded, photography or video

  • E10_Apply processes, methods and techniques to develop creativity and innovation in audiovisual production, multimedia development and video game programming

  • E14_Acquire knowledge of the history, aesthetics, evolution and dynamics of cinema, television, radio, press, Internet and video games, how to recognize aesthetics through viewing and analysis

  • E18_Analyze the structures, contents and styles of television and radio programming according to the technical characteristics of their realization. Design, produce and make programs for television and radio in the technical part: production room or radio control, respectively

Transversal competences
  • T1_That students know a third language, which will be preferably English, with an adequate level of oral and written form, in accordance with the needs of the graduates of each degree

  • T2_That students have the ability to work as members of an interdisciplinary team either as one more member, or performing management tasks in order to contribute to developing projects with pragmatism and a sense of responsibility, making commitments taking into account the available resources

Description


“Contemporary Television Production” independently complements the “Television” subject of the second year of the Degree in Audiovisual Media. The course aims to bring together thinking and praxis about television in different aspects such as politics, culture, sports, new audiences and the technological and social challenges facing contemporary television in Catalonia, Spain and the rest of the world.

The subject, based on the technical, narrative and teamwork knowledge already learned previously, raises the development of the critical spirit on television that is possible to produce today, in the midst of technological transformations and the need for a balance. between market, experimentation, innovation and cultural diversity.

The subject foresees, from this knowledge of context, the development by groups of students of projects of format of sessions of two innovative and quality television programs that will be developed like pilot programs in the equipment of set and control of the University.

Learning outcomes


  • Identify the main current debates on contemporary television production.
  • Determine the quality of a television product based, among others, on its proposal for staging, its television script, its attention to public service criteria, innovation and financing.
  • Know how to analyze in depth a television program and identify its elements of technical production, aesthetics, own audiovisual narrative and executive production.
  • Know how to pre-produce, produce and deliver a pilot program in television format with criteria of formal and content innovation.

Working methodology


The teaching methodology formula will be based on expository class sessions focused on the teacher’s explanation. Presentations and explanations by students in the classroom will also be encouraged. Teachers' readings will be accompanied by schematic presentations and audiovisual capsules that will be screened in the classroom. Occasionally there will be a lecture by a relevant speaker to complete the class explanations.

Pre-assigned readings and case studies will be proposed and analyzed in face-to-face forums in the classroom. Class attendance and group activities will also have their weight with sections assigned individually to each student.

Throughout the teaching, face-to-face and non-face-to-face tutorials will be guaranteed. In this second case the student will have telematic resources such as e-mail and various resources of the virtual classroom or intranet of the Tecnocampus.

We will work with many real and current examples from the professional world. The activities of a practical nature will be simulations of how an innovative television program is created and produced. The interest and contributions of students are essential to advance and increase the level of internships.

Apart from the work within the set and the control, the students will have to develop during all the asignatura own process like team of realization of a producer that develops his format of television project. The groups will work in coordination from the thematic proposal of sessions and writing of booklets in such a way that together they form part of two whole programs of 26 minutes. The students will prepare a dossier of sale of the final project that will present to the professors during the hours of activities directed, these then, are very important and form part of the process of learning and evaluation.

 

Contents


CONTENT 1. History of Contemporary Television: From the social and political context to the possibilities of experimentation with the television archive.

 

4 face-to-face hours

Description

This module raises the social and historical context of television from its origin and the development of the principles of television as a public service. A first approach is sought to the possibilities of a television that from the university experiments with the possibilities of innovating in the medium.

1.1. Paleo and neo-television (History and evolution)

1.2. The uses of television (Social context)

1.3 Television and the archive (Open archive sources)

1.4 Experiments with television (Found Footage-Video Essay)

Related activities

Proposal exercise (story line and booklet) of an archive television capsule (1 min) that proposes the analysis of a concept. Based on innovative aesthetic approaches, it will adapt the class contents to the language of the medium.

Activities 1, 2 and 3

       

 

CONTENT 2: Screen cultures: Television and aesthetic innovation

 

4 face-to-face hours

Description

2.1 Television, art and culture: The encounter of television with other forms of expression such as literary adaptations, philosophy, tele-theater, comics.

2.2 Television as an artistic performance and video installation.

2.3 Television as a ritual. Innovation in the treatment of popular culture topics such as sports, music and travel.

Related activities

Activities 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.

       

 

 CONTENT 3: Political television, memory and proximity.

 

4 face-to-face hours

Description

3.1 Political television: Citizen participation, humor and political satire, television activism. 

3.2 Relationships between television, history and memory.

3.3 Local television: Local and community media.

3.4 Youtubers: Global proximity.

Related activities

Exercise to create a television capsule on a theme of rescuing memory or diversity in the Maresme.

Activities 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.

       

 

CONTENT 4: Crossmedia, transmedia and cultural resistance

 

4 face-to-face hours

Description

How to think and make contemporary television for a cross-platform, transmedia and changing environment?

4.1 Cross-Media, Trans-Media and Video-Games on quality television.

4.2 Connected television: present and future of transversal television social media (prosumers, communities and cultural resistance)

4.3 New perspectives, interfaces and technological applications of television: iptvs, HD, 4K, 3D and VR

4.4 Children's television as a source of narrative and formal innovation for new audiences.

Related activities

Preparation and delivery by producers of the final dossier of television program format.

Activities 4, 5 and 6.

 

CONTENT 5: Programming and distribution of contents in the University Television

 

2 face-to-face hours

Description

5.1 Set of quality television production and programming strategies

5.2 Discussion: what it means to program / distribute audiovisual content in the digital environment

5.3 The mini-put, learning about quality formats in contemporary television

Related activities

Activities 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.

       


 

Learning activities


Activity title 1: Intensive performance (knowledge of the set and control)

(Contents 1)

 

 

General description

Dividing the students into two groups, they will be explained in detail which elements make up the two spaces where we will work: the television set and the control.

We will review the roles that are developed in each space (in the set camera operators, councilor, production assistant, sound assistant, etc. and in control, director, production assistant, mixer, sound technician, graphic designer, video operator and VTR , CCU operator, etc.).

There will be an intensive performance in two blocks; forty minutes per performance group. The practice will be determined by two staging sessions with a set, lighting proposal and camera movements.

Support material

- Television set equipment (set cameras, wireless microphone, intercom equipment, set lighting).

- Television control equipment (Tricaster production station, VTR, computer graphics).

- Additional television control equipment (Intercom equipment, set and control lighting table, sound table and Camera Control Unit).

- Optionally, a reference ladder will be offered to better develop the practice.

Deliverable and links to the evaluation

This experience will be linked to the skills and especially acquired knowledge that are demonstrated from activity 2 and 3.

Specific objectives

At the end of the activity the student must be able to:

-Know and identify the elements that make up a television set.

-Know and identify the technical elements that make up a television control.

-Know how to be agile and able to put into practice a television production consistent with the class contents and the techniques previously learned.

-Demonstrate the ability to work with available resources and to be proactive in finding solutions to common problems in filming.

       

 

Title of activities 2 and 3: Trials 1 and 2.

(Contents 1, 2 and 3)

 

Dedication:

18 h

Small group: 4h

Guided activities: 2h

Autonomous learning: 12am

General description

These television practices are designed to develop for two sessions the first conceptual approach in the laboratory of the television program format that students will develop.

These are the first two activities evaluated, of the four linked to the final practical project or also called Final Program, which must last 26 minutes and will be based on a television format designed by the students themselves, which must include two sessions of staging, filming sets, camera positions A and B and different mandatory plans for each of the three cameras, a minimum of 3 actors, 6 VTR´s of a maximum of 45 seconds, videography, sound effects and music .

Students will prepare this activity in the form of two production teams that are part of the same producer. During the two sessions there will be 50 minute rotating shifts for each initial rehearsal initial rehearsal of their section. The roles of each student will have been decided internally by each of the producers themselves, in the 2 areas we will work: producer author (direction, production, script, production, council, mixer, VTR, graphics and actors) and technical producer (cameras , CCU, sound technician, lighting, cable operator).

The importance of coordination between the figures in the three areas will be emphasized, especially between the program director, the program director, the program producer and the councilor.

 The audiovisual and textual materials prepared will be observed, as well as the informal practices carried out and will be analyzed by the teachers. In class those detected errors will be discussed and discussed together with all students.

Support material

- Television set equipment (set cameras, wireless microphone, intercom equipment, set lighting).

- Television control equipment (Tricaster production station, VTR, computer graphics).

- Additional television control equipment (Intercom equipment, set and control lighting table, sound table and Camera Control Unit).

- VTR material, videography and sound provided by student producers.

- Utensil materials provided by each producer evaluated.

Deliverable and links to the evaluation

- Program signal recorded in internal tricaster VTR available through GMA Media to students and link in MP4 format delivered via virtual campus.

- Program schedule

- Installation of a television production plant.

- Students will have to use in the activity all the material of videography and videos that they will want to use in the final program, although they will not have to be neither definitive nor totally finished.

These two activities together account for 15% of the final grade.

Specific objectives

At the end of the activity the student must be able to:

- To test the knowledge acquired in the theory in class and in the previous activities.

- Develop and improve the skills of television practice in most of its main roles: production team, set team and artistic team.

- Demonstrate the ability to develop a television project conceived and developed by the student teams themselves. Know how to put it on the floor and set.

- Demonstrate the ability to work in a team with other work teams (technical team or set producer and author team or producer of control and production).

- Consolidate already in specific roles and during 2 practices the innate capacities of the students to put them to the service of the future final project (Final Program)

- Launch the evaluation project of your own television project, which will lead to the final practice (sections 1 and 2 of the Final Program).

-Demonstrate the ability to make a creative production with the available resources and to be purposeful to find a solution to common problems in filming.

       

 

Title of activities 4 and 5: Final program 1 and 2

(Contents 1, 2, 3 and 4)

 

Dedication:

24 hours

Small group: 4h

Guided activities: 2h

Autonomous learning: 18am

General description

It is the third and last part of the three linked to the final practical project or also called Final Program.

Students will prepare this activity in the form of two realization teams. In activity 4 the first team will develop its section with the technical support of the second production team. In activity 5, the roles will be exchanged between the realization teams 1 and 2.

It is the final presentation of the Program conceived and elaborated in joint process, and will have to produce of integral form and with all the foreseen contents. The activity must represent a careful, finalist and excellence of the Essay (activities 2 and 3), linked to the premises of the teachers who have acted as executive producers.

In shifts of 110 minutes the producers will coordinate the sessions of the final program of between 10 and 13 minutes each.

The essential coordination between the figures of the program director, the program director, the program producer and the program councilor will be taken for granted and understood.

A special feature of the subject is that the final programs can be broadcast by m1tv within a special strip that we will study to prepare once the course is over if the quality of the programs allows it.

Support material

- Television set equipment (set cameras, wireless microphone, intercom equipment, set lighting).

- Television control equipment (Tricaster production station, VTR, computer graphics).

- Additional television control equipment (Intercom equipment, set and control lighting table, sound table and Camera Control Unit).

- VTR material, videography and sound provided by student producers.

- Utensil materials provided by each producer evaluated.

Deliverable and links to the evaluation

- Program signal recorded in internal tricaster VTR available through GMA Media to students and link in mp4 format.

- At the beginning of the activity, students will have to free the schedule of the program and the installation of a television production.

- The students will have to deliver the last day of class of theory (where will do the Pitch of the project) the Design of Production of the Project of television format, that the professor will have delivered them at the beginning of course.

- Students will have to use in the activity all the material of videos, sounds, music and videografismo that contemplate in the ladder.

- The recordings of the productions of each producer will be observed and will be analyzed by the teaching staff.

- The technical capabilities demonstrated in practice, as well as the power of the program created, reflected in the Production Design Plan or final dossier, the schedule and the first video materials will be evaluated. Finally, the ability to convey a staging and a concrete realization will be taken into account.

The overall mark of this assessment linked to the two activities will mean 15% of the final mark of the subject.

Specific objectives

At the end of the activity the student must be able to:

- To test the knowledge acquired in the theory in class and in the previous activities.

- Develop and improve the skills of television practice in most of its main roles: production team, set team and artistic team.

- Demonstrate the ability to develop a television format project conceived and developed by the student teams themselves. Know how to put it on the floor and set.

- Demonstrate the ability to work in a team with other work teams (technical team or set producer and author team or producer of control and production).

- Test the staging, presentation and television production skills of student teams. Also show a capacity for surprise and television quality innovation.

- Learn the real television production process (pre-production and format ideation, general rehearsal, review with the executive producers of television, final improvement and shooting of the pilot format).

- Satisfactorily complete their own television project.

       

 

Activity title 6: Presentation of the program (Pitch)

(Contents 1, 2, 3 and 4)

 

Dedication:

12 hours

Large group: 3h

Guided activities: 1h

Autonomous learning: 9am

General description

It is the last activity linked to the final practical project or also called Final Program. Students will prepare this activity for performance teams.

It is the final presentation of the sections of the program elaborated in the joint process and will have to produce of integral form and with all the foreseen contents. The activity must represent a presentation or pitch with a desire for excellence, linked to the premises of the teachers who have acted as executive producers. The final program format dossier will also be submitted.

In shifts of 10 minutes the producers will perform this activity.

The essential coordination between the figures of the program director, the program director, the program producer and the program councilor and screenwriter will be taken for granted and understood.

Support material

- Computer with audiovisual projector

Deliverable and links to the evaluation

- Program signal recorded on internal tricaster VTR available through GMA Media to students.

- At the beginning of the activity, students will have to free the schedule of the program and the installation of a television production.

- The students will have to deliver the last day of class of theory the Design of Production of the Project of television format, that the professor will have delivered them at the beginning of course and that will have co-evaluated and reviewed during the course.

- The power of the program created, reflected in the Production Design Plan or final dossier, the schedule and the first video materials will be evaluated. Finally, the ability to convey a staging and a specific realization and know how to explain and sell it in the presentation will be taken into account.

The overall mark of this activity and the linked deliverable will mean 10% of the final mark of the subject.

Specific objectives

At the end of the activity the student must be able to:

- To test the knowledge acquired in the theory in class and in the previous activities.

- Demonstrate the ability to develop a television format project conceived and developed by the student teams themselves. Know how to put it in writing and present it in a rigorous way, betting on the strengths and opportunities presented by the format.

- Satisfactorily complete their own television project.

       

 

Activity title 7: Final exam

(Contents 1, 2, 3 and 4)

 

Dedication:

7 hours

Large group: 2h

Guided activities: 1h

Autonomous learning: 4am

General description

Final exercise of the subject where it is asked and evaluated on the totality of the theoretical corpus taught.

Support material

Exam delivered to be filled in by the student.

Deliverable and links to the evaluation

Exam filled by the student. This activity accounts for 40% of the final grade.

Specific objectives

  • Demonstrate the global and solid knowledge of the theoretical corpus of the subject in a transversal and comprehensive way.
  • Demonstrate the global ability to describe, identify and relate different concepts related to the theory taught in class as well as the basic and complementary bibliography of the subject.

Evaluation system


The aim of the subject is to complete the vision on television and its communicative and social phenomenon; the learning, the evolution of the student and his creativity will be highly valued, but also the critical analytical capacity applied to a solid final project and with a will of innovation and excellence. The ability to work in a team, to contribute to solving problems and to propose effective and realistic production strategies with the available resources are key factors in the evaluation of practices.

The evaluation of the subject will have the separation between content and laboratory practice. The theoretical content will be evaluated in a single exam and with class activities. The final exam will count for 40% of the overall mark of the subject, and it will be necessary to obtain in its evaluation a minimum mark of 5 out of 10 to be able to average with the rest of the qualifications of the subject. Class activities and individual and group exercises, therefore continuous work and attendance, 20%

The evaluation of the subject will also take into account the practices of activities in the laboratory. Thus, activities 2 and 3 (Essay 1 and 2) account for 15% between the two, with a single overall rating of the two activities. Activities 4 and 5 (Final Program 1 and 2) account for 15% between the two, also with a single overall rating of the two activities.

Finally, and with the aim of evaluating in an evolutionary and explanatory way the progressive and constantly improving television process, activities 6 (Pitching of the format, which includes the elaboration and presentation of the final project dossier of television program format as well as its programming strategies) has 10% of the value of the final grade of the subject.

Only the theoretical part can be recovered, with a recovery exam.

Abstract

Class activities and individual and group exercises: 20%

Activities 2 and 3 (Essay 1 and 2): 15%

Activities 4 and 5 (Final program 1 and 2): 15%

Activity 6 (Pitch and final dossier): 10%

Activity 7 Final exam of the subject: 40%

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Basic

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BONET, Eugeni; MERCADER, Antoni; MUNTADAS, Antoni. Around the video. University of the Basque Country. Bilbao, 2010. 

Complementary

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SOLANA, G .; BONEU, A. Uncredited: graphic design and credits in cinema. Barcelona: Index Books, 2007.

DE LA CUEVA, Cecilia, Llaquet Purificacion, Moyano Maria Adela, De Diego Ignacio, Perez Tornero JM and Serrano Maria G. Alternatives to current television. Editorial Gedisa. Comunicación.txt Collection, 2007. 304 p. ISBN: 9788497842457

RÀFOLS, Rafael and COLOMER, Antoni. Audiovisual design. Gustavo Gili. Barcelona, ​​2003.

KELLNER, Douglas. Television, advertising and the construction of postmodern societies. (Chap. 7, p.247) in Media culture: cultural studies, identity and politics between the modern and the postmodern. Tres Cantos, Madrid: Akal, 2011.

AMELA, Victor. Television show. Editorial UOC. Barcelona, ​​2008. 102 p. ISBN: 978-84-9788-767-0