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   Orientation Course for officers of the Indian Information Service

The Training Schedule of Foundation in Communication

» Trimester 2
Communication Media, Tools and Concepts

Module 1 Communication Media
Capsule 1 (Lectures, field visits, individual and group assignments)
Unit 1 Evolution and growth of press
Unit 2 Development of electronic media
Unit 3 Traditional folk Media
Unit 4 New Communication Technologies

Module 2 Print Media
Capsule 1  
Unit 1 Communication through graphics
Unit 2 Layout and Format, Newspaper page makeup
Unit 3 Magazine layout-tabloids and others
Unit 4 Color Reproduction
Capsule 2  
Unit 1 Techniques of Book Production
Unit 2 Different types of printing processes
Unit 3 Cost-Estimation, pricing and sales promotion
Capsule 3  
Unit 1 Planning a Lab Journal
Unit 2 Production of Lab Journal
Unit 3 Evaluation of Lab Journal

Module 3 Broadcast communication
Capsule 1 (Lectures, workshop, individual and group assignments)
Unit 1 Introduction to radio and television journalism
Unit 2 Communicating with your viewer/listener: presentation workshop
Unit 3 Formative research: the importance of research in building up a story / programme and the visible and invisible factors that one may face in producing a wholesome and balanced programme
Capsule 2 (Workshop)
Unit 1 Editorial Meetings: How to take part in and conduct them
Unit 2 Conducting Interviews for both radio and television
Unit 3 Planning a Vox Pops
Unit 4 Anchoring Panel Discussion
Unit 5 Preparing a Project Proposal
Unit 6 Production Costing
Unit 7 Horizontal Thinking, Making best used of resources to produce programmes for more than one medium on a given topic

Module 4 Radio tools and techniques
Capsule 1 (Workshop)
Unit 1 Understanding the importance of sound, various types of mikes, using and taking care of the tape recorder
Unit 2 Recording sound in various types of location
Unit 3 Studio Recording
Unit 4 Location Recording
Unit 5 Dubbing
Unit 6 Cut Editing
Unit 7 Cut Editing
Unit 8 Scripting
Capsule 2 (Workshops)
Unit 1 Making a radio programme in a group
Unit 2 Writing for Radio News
Unit 3 Say what u see or reporting live
Unit 4 Radio Location Reporting
Unit 5 Packaging and post- production
Unit 6 Agency Material: Gathering and Selection
Unit 7 Preparing a News Bulletin
Unit 8 Writing Headlines
Unit 9 Preparing a magazine programme

Module 5 Television tools and techniques
Capsule 1 (Workshop)
Unit 1 Electronic News Gathering Camera- What it is, how it works ,how to handle it and how to take care of it, various types of shots and how to take them
Unit 2 Digital Camera: How the Digicam is different from other analog camera, relative advantage and disadvantage
Unit 3 Sound Booths and formalization with various types of mikes for different situations
Unit 4 Thinking in picture and use of story board
Unit 5 Location Shooting
Unit 6 Recce
Unit 7 Single Camera direction
Unit 8 Multi Camera direction
Unit 9 Studio Script
Unit 10 Studio Practice and Commands
Unit 11 Basic Lighting for television
Unit 12 Spotting (Logging) using time code
Capsule 2 (Workshop)
Unit 1 Video Editing
Unit 2 Digital Editing
Unit 3 Use of Graphics
Unit 4 Narration
Unit 5 Post Production
Capsule 3 (Workshop)
Unit 1 TV news Bulletin -Theory and Practice (Describing the various jobs e.g. programme editor, director, production assistance
Unit 2 Agency material: Gathering and Selection
Unit 3 Writing for Television News
Unit 4 Words to Picture
Unit 5 Locating Reporting and Piece to Camera
Unit 6 Presentation of a TV News Bulletin
Unit 7 Preparation of a TV News Bulletin
Unit 8 Preparing and Processing a Magazine programme

Module 6 New communication technologies
Capsule 1 (Workshop)
Unit 1 Emerging trends in information technology and their impact on communication techniques
Capsule 2 (Workshop)
Unit 1 Multimedia concepts and issues
Unit 2 Multimedia platform and development tools
Unit 3 Multimedia application, benefits and Problems
Unit 4 Multimedia building blocks -text ,sound ,images, animation and video, Restriction of tools and media. Managing information database, information hierarchies and information layout
Unit 5 Planning and implementation of multimedia projects Role of development of staff. Choose of authoring system. Evaluation of multimedia project
Capsule 3 (Workshop)
Unit 1 Internet as a research tool
Unit 2 Basic web design with special emphasis on putting text, stills, moving pictures and audio on your web site
Unit 3 Writing for the Internet

Module 7 Public Relation: principles, tools and methods
Capsule 1 (Lectures, individual and group assignments)
Unit 1 PR, Principles, tools and methods
Unit 2 PR and organizational culture
Capsule 2 (Lectures, individual and group assignments)
Unit 1 Image management
Unit 2 Communication audit
Capsule 3 (Lectures, individual and group assignments)
Unit 1 Crises management
Unit 2 Cases studies in PR and corporate communication

Evaluation
The officer trainee will be assessed on the basis of individual and group assignment.
Trimester 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 & 7






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