Workshop: Reporter Profession: Techniques for Telling Stories with Images and Sounds
A.Y. 2026/2027
Learning objectives
The laboratory's aim is training students to design, produce and publish videoreportages and podcasts of journalistic information. It therefore responds to the training objectives of the Course, which intends to provide specific professional skills.
Expected learning outcomes
Students will learn to recognize and analyze all the technical aspects of video and podcast production consistent with a specific journalistic platform, to respect the methods and times of production, to shoot a video, to record and edit interviews and sound materials and to insert them into a website. They will work in the field of historical investigation on TV and radio and therefore acquire the necessary knowledge for the use of video and sound archives. Some of the final reportages, screened, will be published online.
Lesson period: Second semester
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
The workshop aims to train students to design, produce, and publish videos and podcasts for a news website. Students will be taught how to professionally approach the various components of audiovisual journalistic production, from voice over to filming and interview techniques. It therefore meets the educational objectives of the degree program, which aims to provide specific professional skills.
Prerequisites for admission
Students are required: excellent knowledge of Italian and English, willingness to try the exercises that will be proposed, availability of a smartphone and earphones-microphones in the classroom.
Teaching methods
The laboratory will follow three teaching approaches. Guests in the classroom to train students in the talk show format and interviews, analysis of the proposed audio, video and photographic material and exercises in the classroom, with video viewing and field tests.
Teaching Resources
Students will be gradually introduced to podcasts, reports, and web TV programs to analyze. Films on the topic will also be suggested, and paper and multimedia archive materials will be provided.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The exercises will be analyzed and evaluated from time to time, immediately after they've been done or in the following meeting.
Professor(s)