Syllabus

Course Code: P-403    Course Name: Elective Paper - i) Media Production( Print)

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 • Identification and cultivation of sources of news
• News gathering process and maintaining source
• Identifying, introducing and correcting the following in news:
Objectivity, truth, diversity, plurality, balance and bias
2 • Visit a village and prepare a development report
• Attend a public meeting and prepare a political report
• Attend a press conference and prepare a political report
• Attend any cultural event and write a feature
• Prepare an investigative report
• Writing feature, editorial, comment & article for newspaper
3 • Copy testing, sub-editing & rewriting of reporters copy
• Copy testing, sub-editing & rewriting of news agency copy
• Copy testing, sub- editing & rewriting of press release
• Writing headlines, sub-headings, boxes, windows
• Headline significance and functions
• Editing & cropping of picture, writing cut line, style book
4 • Quark Express & In Design
• Principles of page-layout and designing: based on balance, symmetrical, asymmetrical and dissymmetrical layout, vertical, horizontal, diagonal and quadrant, frame, brace, circus, jazzy
• Newspaper production: principle of design, newspaper makeup, dummy, effect of television and new media of newspaper makeup, newspaper form, design elements, front page, editorial, color page, graphic & illustration production, special pullout and suplements
• Magazine production: layout and design
• E-newspaper, E-magazine, E-book publishing
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