Multiplatform Journalism Lab

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

The classes begin to be lectures, starting from the demonstration of concepts through examples, or through the use of multimedia tools. The multimedia tools are approached in a tutorial method where the student is accompanied step by step to perform tasks.

Then students are challenged to conceive and produce news in a multiplatform format, putting into practice the skills acquired and assimilating the knowledge through practice and through the production, editing and distribution of the news reports.

Learning Outcomes

The Multiplaform Journalism Lab intends to raise awareness for the contemporary transformations and trends in journalism production processes, namely those that occur in the transition for digital platforms. The learning outcomes of this class are:

- Identify different supports and formats for digital information;

- Know and apply the more suitable language and tools in each broadcast platform;

- Design and produce news for the various platforms, adapting the content to each format;

- Master digital storytelling techniques

- Use different digital media for distributing information.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

- Specificities of each medium and adequacy of information to different media

- Select, write, edit and re-edit information for different media, namely regarding text, sound, still and moving image

- Fundamentals of moving-image and sound recording: the audiovisual language and the news format

- Integrated production processes for multiplatforms: interactive media, hybrid media and multiplatforms

- Multiplatformand transmedia scriptwriting

- Production of interactive and multiplatform stories: non-linear and multi-linear narratives

- Distribution of news content in cross-media and transmedia format.

Head Lecturer(s)

Sílvio Manuel Rodrigues Correia dos Santos

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 30.0%
Laboratory work or Field work: 70.0%

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