The latvian academy of culture

Preconditions for the Acquisition of the Credit Points: A test.

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The Name of the Course: The History and Theory of Television.

The Scope of the Course: 64 academic hours (30 hours of lectures, 34 hours of seminars).

4 credit points.

The type of assessment – a test and an examination.

The Author of the Course: Ass. Prof. Ģirts Nagainis

Preconditions for the Acquisition of the Course: Prior knowledge in fine arts, the history of the cinema and literature.

The Scope of the Course: The course includes the most important aspects in the development of TV technologies, practice, genres and theory. The objective of the course is to acquire the history, theory, development and perspectives of television and its importance in society.

The Thematic Planning:

Theme	Week	Type of classes and hours
The role of TV in the life of an individual and the society.	1.	L2
The technological, communicative and social preconditions for the formation of TV in the 20’ies – the 40’ies of the 20^th century.	2.	L2
The development of TV technologies from the radio valve till “star wars”.	3.	L2
How TV became the main information source of mankind.	4.,5.	L2;S2
Live broadcasts and the effect of participation.	6.	L2;S2
Virtual TV and the Internet.	7.	L2;S2
Clip thinking.	8.	L2;S2
Postmodernism and TV.	9.	L2;L2;S2
The VHS camera and author television.	10.	L2;S2
The history of Latvian TV.	11.	L2;S2
TV genres and influence on an individual and the society in general. ”Talkshow”, soap operas, developments of the game in various societies.	12.,13.	L2;L2;S2;S2
Advertising and commerce on TV.	14.	L2;S2
The principles of creating a TV programme on public and commercial TV.	15.	L2;S2
The assessment of the work of TV. Ratings, audience research departments, critics.	16.	L2;S2

Requirements for the Acquisition of Credit Points:
1. To participate in all seminars.

2. To successfully pass a test and an examination.

Literature:

1.Herbert Zett., Television Production Hand Book., Wordsworths Publ. Coup., California, 1992

2.Director on TV. - London, 1985.

3.Paas M. TV used time. - Paris, 1995.

4.Videofilms. - London, 1995.

The Name of the Course: TV Genres
The Scope of the Course: 72 hours of lectures and seminars. 4 credit points.

Type of assessment – an examination.

The Author of the Course: Lecturer Aleksandrs Mirļins
Preconditions for the Acquisition of the Course: A wish to acquire a course of practical journalism and communication, good knowledge of language.
The Contents of the Course: The course gives the idea of an interview not only as a means of getting information, but mainly as a genre, the principles of its construction and intrinsic regularities. The course helps to explore the specific features of an interview and the possibilities of using it in film creation.
Thematic Planning:

Theme	Week	Hours
The genre and method of an interview. The functional, structural and architectonic differences and similarities.	1,2,3,4	L4, L4
Behaviour during an interview. The psycho-physical peculiarities in the behaviour of interviewers and interviewees, making use of these peculiarities.	5,6,7,8	L2;P4
Classification: an official interview, an informative interview, a portrait interview, a questionnaire interview and a discussion.	9,10,11,12	L4,P2
The types and use of questions. Open and closed questions, basic and probing questions, control questions, direct and projective questions, personal and impersonal questions. The antagonistic probing: negative questions.	13,14,15,16	L4, P6
The drama principles of the structure of an interview. The permanent conflict characteristic of a dialogue. The conflict of views, characters, facts, story, the conflict created by the question structure.	17,18,19,20,21,22	L12, P16
The technique of an interview. The notion of the script as a definition of the aims of an interview. The list of questions depending on the required information material. A plan of interview recording – the script – a plan of editing.	23,24,25,26,27	L6,16
Behaviour during an interview. Distance. Signals for the interviewer: gestures and intonation. The visual solution and teamwork.	28, 29,30,31,32	L6,P10

Requirements for the Acquisition of Credit Points:

1. Presence at 75% of the lectures.

2. Active participation at the seminars.

3. A successfully passed examination.

Literature:
1. Birringer Johannes. Media & performance: along the border. – Baltimore; London: The John Hopkins Univ. Press, 1998.

2. Broadcast journalism. Ed. by Marvin Barret. – New York: Everest House, 1982.

3. Carruthers Suzan L. The media at war: communication and conflict in the 20^th century. – Basingstoke; London: McMillan Press; New York: St Martin’s Press, 2000.

4. International Encyclopedia of Communications. Ed. by Barrow etc. New York; Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1989.

5. Itule Bruce D., Anderson Douglas A. News writing and reporting for todays’ media. New York: Everest House, 1989.

6. Mac Cabe Colin. The eloquence of the vulgar: language, cinema and the politics of culture. Colin Mac Cabe. - London: bfi Publ., 1999.