Radio Production

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
171RT Z 1 1T Czech winter

Subject guarantor

Tomáš ZIKMUND

Name of lecturer(s)

Tomáš ZIKMUND

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The course aim is an introduction to media of radio and its individual elements.

Mode of study

Interactive instruction

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Participation in class and excursions.

Course contents

The lecture over the history of Czech Radio sources radio documentary archives. It is supplemented by historical photographs and sound samples from gramaphone rolls, transparencies, gramaphone disks and tape recordings.

Lecture over the internal struction of radion and about individual stations

Excursions to selected radio workplaces including discussions with workers.

How to make a newscast and how to set up direct broadcast. Sports newscasts. Sound examples.

Speaking and drama programs. Examples of producing an original radio play. A visit to a drama recording and discussions with the director. Listening to stereophonic recordings, „Flight into Danger“ and discussions with the sound engineer who executed the work.

Music original production from the broadcast booth. Excursion to those workplaces. The function of the announcer and moderator.

Radio technology. Development of technology for the beginnings of radio in the Czech Republic to today. Perpectives in radio technology and the start of digitalization.

Use of computer technology in radio. Archiving recordings and future trends. Exchange of recordings using the EBU network.

Recommended or required reading

none

Assessment methods and criteria

Activity in the course

Schedule for winter semester 2018/2019:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2018/2019:

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The subject is a part of the following study plans