Broadcast and Video Production Curriculum Update

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Broadcast and Video Production Curriculum Update

• Mobile Video Production, Screenwriting, Broadcast
  Journalism

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Committee

• Chairperson
• Warren Carter
• Professor, Broadcast and Video Production
• Members
• Adam Davis Screenwriting
• Golden West College
• Marc Foster Motion Graphics
• Golden West College
• John McNichols Outreach/Mobile Production
• Tommy Dihn

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Project Objectives

• Revise screenwriting curriculum
• Update Intro Screenwriting course
• Write new advanced screenwriting class
• Write new course in Television Screenwriting
• Update Screenwriting Certificate of Achievement

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Project Objectives

• Revise Broadcast Journalism courses to reflect
  contemporary trends in local news and sports
  reporting
• Develop work based experience partnerships with
  broadcast partners

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Project Objectives

• Develop new course in Mobile Television
  Production
• Develop industry based work experience

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Industry Partners

• Time Warner
• 21 Lakes Mobile Productions
• CNN
• KVMD TV 31
• Wexler Video
• Right Brain Media
• Cable Television Public Television Authority

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Activities

• Surveyed twenty-one broadcast and video
  production companies
• Entry level skills
• Collaboration on course outlines (Industry
  members and high school teachers)
• Collaborated on design of industry based work
  experience
• Establish internship and mentoring program

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Activities

• Developed outreach program for middle and high
  school students and parents
• Campus visits and workshops
• Fieldtrips to industry partner sites
• Workshop sessions for parents career pathway
• Pilot classes with students from partnered high
  schools.

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Impact and Outcomes

• Ability to serve a more diverse group of
  secondary students
• Creation of three new courses
• Creation of two new certificate of Achievements
• Establish broadcast collaborative

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Conclusion

• Created a self sustaining model
• Easily replicated
• Served as basis for Quick start Grant