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Study Details: 1 year 3 months full-time (45 weeks across a four-term model)
MA Journalism: Audio and Video Journalism is a multimedia course with a strong industry focus that supports you to develop solid multiplatform journalism skills.
We’ll support you to tell stories across different forms of audio and visual media such as podcasts, short video documentaries, and creative videos for social media.
You will have the opportunity to work on projects with industry partners, drawing on our close links with organisations such as The Guardian, Vice, Dazed and Women in Journalism.
You’ll also be given guidance in freelancing and entrepreneurship and you will gain insights from guest speakers representing a range of national newspapers, magazines, broadcasters and websites.
MA Journalism is in Full Time mode which runs for 45 weeks over 15 months. You will be expected to commit 40 hours per week to study.
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Offers will be made based on the following selection criteria, which applicants are expected to demonstrate:
Graduates of the course go on to work in a range of roles. Some become journalists across newspapers, broadcasters, online publications, or art, design, lifestyle and food magazines, or become editors for magazines and other publications.
Others take on roles in marketing and communications for fashion and lifestyle brands or major art institutions, choose to set up their own publications, or work as freelance journalists across a range of different titles.
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We are committed to ensuring that your skills are set within an ethical framework and are embedding UAL’s Principles for Climate, Social and Racial Justice into this course.
This unit will introduce you to the core practical journalism skills of research, interviewing, reporting and pitching, along with basic legal principles.
You’ll also develop skills in idea generation and development, primary and secondary research, understanding audiences and their interests through data and analytics, narrative, editing, and promoting work on social media. Throughout this unit, you’ll produce a portfolio of journalistic work for submission.
You’ll explore ethical, theoretical and contextual issues relating to Audio and Video Journalism exploring a dynamic area of research into podcasting, audio narration, the aesthetics of radio, short form video use in journalism (explainers, journalism for TikTok and other social media platforms), VR and its use in journalism, among others.
In this unit you'll develop in-demand skills in mobile video journalism, learning how to shoot, edit and embed eye-catching short-form video for social media to build engagement with online audiences.
You’ll develop skills in a range of journalistic forms relating to Audio and Video Journalism, focusing on primary and secondary research, building narratives and promoting your work on social media. Building skills in longer-form content creation in audio and video, you'll learn how to produce engaging podcasts from first idea to final production using our specialist suite of studios, while video teaching will move from mobile to digital cameras and green-screen studio production. You'll develop location shooting, creative production and editing skills, ultimately crafting your own video documentary feature.
This unit is designed to enable you to identify, form and develop collaborative working relationships with a range of potential partners. These could include other postgraduate students at LCC or UAL; postgraduate students at other Higher Education institutions; or external organisations such as cultural or community groups, NGOs, businesses or charities.
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