Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

Tv Formats

Tv Formats
3
12031
3
First semester
op
Main language of instruction: Spanish

Teaching staff

Introduction

In the event that the health authorities announce a new period of confinement due to the evolution of the health crisis caused by COVID-19, the teaching staff will promptly communicate how this may effect the teaching methodologies and activities as well as the assessment.


At this subject will study distinct television formats, the feasibility of a project, the routines for his elaboration and the distinct possibilities of consumption for part of the spectator. It offers an approach at distinct modalities of informative programs and of actuality, hybrid formats of entertainment and skilled. Everything this at a general frame that seeks to influence at the identification of the new audiovisual narrative born from the development of Internet, the social networks and other digital platforms.

Pre-course requirements

No prerequisite is necessary to take the course.

Objectives

Endow at the pupils of the necessary tools to identify and interpret a television format since a professional perspective. Acquire the competences to be able to develop a program of television at any format from a good idea.
Improve the analytic capacity, creative and organisational of the pupil that have interest for the television mode.

Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme

  • 01 - The ability to adapt to varying circumstances
  • 06 - The ability to develop academic rigour, responsibility, ethics and professionalism
  • 07 - The ability to apply the deontology and respect for the audiovisual sector
  • 08 - The ability of critical analysis, synthesis, concretion and abstraction
  • 11 - The ability to generate debate and reflection
  • 13 - The ability to create spoken and written communication
  • 14 - Knowledge and mastery of rhetoric and oratory to communicate own ideas
  • 16 - The ability to manage, analysis and reflect on content
  • 19 - The ability of informative documentation
  • 20 - Knowledge and mastery of bibliographic media
  • 22 - Knowledge and mastery of the distinction between opinion and information / colloquial and cultured register
  • 25 - The ability to maximize creative development
  • 26 - The ability to develop a sense of taste and perfection in the aesthetics and finalization of projects
  • 27 - The ability to adapt to distinct audio visual publics and markets.
  • 30 - The ability to study the feasibility of an audiovisual product
  • 31 - The ability to understand the financial systems of media groups and companies.
  • 37 - The ability to contextualize and critically analyze the organizational structure of global communication
  • 38 - The ability to understand and apply the structure of the audiovisual system
  • 39 - The ability to understand and apply the legal dimension of an audiovisual product
  • 41 - The ability to know how the distinct elemental agencies of the audio visual sector function
  • 42 - The ability to distinguish, analyze and dominate the distinct genres and formats of television, film and radio
  • 50 - The ability to adapt, understand and apply the expressive possibilities of new technologies and future changes
  • 51 - Knowledge and mastery of the functioning of Corporate and Institutional Communication.
  • 53 - Lingustic ability in Catalan, Spanish and English
  • 54 - The ability to skillfully manage the literature, terminology and linguistic structures of the English language related to the field of communication.

Syllabus


Unit 1. INTRODUCTION 

The television medium. 

Scheduling and grills 

Genres and formats 


Unit 2. FROM THE IDEA TO THE FORMAT

Imagination and creativity. 

Materialize a project; own production and external production. 

Budgets and financing formulas. 

Registration and intellectual property 


Unit 3. CURRENT TREATMENT 

Newscasts. 

Interviews and debates. 

Reports and documentaries. 

Outdoors and big events. 


Unit 4. SPECIALIZED FORMULAS. MICROWORDS 

Thematic uniqueness: Children, sports, meteorology. 

Specialized programs and channels: cultural, musical. 

The continuous informative formulas All news. 


Unit 5. GENRES AND HYBRID FORMATS 

Spectacularization of today. 

The reinvention of the report. 

Infotainment for specialized themes. 


Unit 6. TELEVISION AND INTERNET

 Introduction to transmedia. 

Multiplatform formats, streaming and mobile TV. 

Content and social networks. 

Co-creation. 

Impact on conventional television.