MD105 Editorial design
Sufficient mastery of the English language is required. Students following Erasmus programs and media related study programs will be given priority. A primary admission list will be made within two weeks after the first application deadline. Students failing to attend the first lecture without valid reason will be excluded. VUC reserves non-commercial user rights to work submitted during the course.Students failing to attend the first lecture without valid reason will be excluded. VUC reserves non-commercial user rights to work submitted during the course.
Editorial design is about constructing editorial content for a media production or event (magazin, exhibition, performance, presentation, application) with focus on both content and design. Depending on the individual choice of interpretation and visualisation of content, the result can contain visual elements like text, photos, illustrations, animations, movies or anything else that emphazises and communicates the chosen topic in the best way.
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The students are to acquire extended skills in visualising content by research - and layout skills.
The students are to acquire extended skills in editorial planning. This includes aspects of journalistic research and design planning.
The understanding of editorial design, its relation/response to research and its visual presentation are core elements in editorial design and will help the students to develop versatile knowledge for different target groups and customers.
During the course, the students will develop their own media production or event. Lectures related to journalistic research, interviewing, design, production planning and relevant software will be given during the course, and by group meetings the students will receive continously feedback. Lectures are mandatory. Students planning to run selv-appointed projects must apply with application sketches within the first week of this course. Selv-appointed projects must be run by minimum 3, maximum 5 students (preferably including one foreign student at least), and the projects need to be approved after a short presentation. All other students will be attached to editorial groups and constuct their own individual editorial work (preferably a magazin), based on interviews of their group members. A given topic will be the framework for the project. Group meetings and individual meetings during the whole course.
The final product is to be presented electronically for the whole class.
The course will be evaluated in accordance with the University College’s routines for quality assurance.
| Assessment Form | Grouping | Duration | Grading scale | Proportion | Comment | Support Materials | Scope |
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Portfolio | Individual | A-F, A is the best grade and E is the lowest passing grade | All assessment and examination work must be done in english. | The course will be assessed on the basis of an individual written report consisting of the individual or the groups presentation (visuals and commentaries) followed by a project report (max. 2 000 words), outlining the strategy of the project and an evaluation of the students’ own efforts. The report will be graded. |