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Sports Broadcasting
This course builds on the prerequisite classes: Adobe Photoshop and Video Production class with Dr. Smith. A background in (English writing) sports journalism and/or photographer skills is a bonus for consideration. Students in this course will write and produce six sports highlight packages a year. They attend sporting events, record the games, and interview players and coaches to create highlight stories. Students also produce several live events with play-by-play announcers, color commentary, and possible sideline reporting. The program is a high school version of ESPN. Also, the highlight packages are used for the sports segment in our daily
television/podcast show, Down to the Wire. In addition to video projects, students learn studio jobs to write, direct, and produce a weekly show.

Course Description:
Students will be taught the skills and knowledge on how to deal with the many pressures and challenges of producing a weekly news podcast. Students will research, gather, and analyze information that will be used to create audio and video productions for broadcast to a variety of audiences. Throughout this course students will learn basic journalistic skills, video production skills, and technological skills.

Upon leaving this program, students should:
Demonstrate knowledge of the sports broadcasting
- Be able to research and analyze players, coaches and teams
- Show knowledge of audio equipment and formats, for production
- Demonstrate the ability to write quality scripts for programming
- Show knowledge of the live broadcasting (announcers)
- Show knowledge of the operation of various cameras
- Exhibit knowledge of computer based video production and editing
- Exhibit knowledge of pre-production, production, and post-production activities
- Be able to examine and analyze a production for corrections (editing) before airing
- Demonstrate the proper use of graphics and titles
- Show ethical decision making
- Understand copyright laws and how to seek formal permission to use copyrighted materials
- Understand the First Amendment http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/first_amendment