Final Exam Review for Media Studies

Final Exam Review: (Material covering Jan. 29 post - current)

• Television & Cable (chapter 6)
• Vladimir Zworykin & Philo Farnsworth (blog, chapter 6)
• Charles Francis Jenkins, the father of American Television (blog)
• Analog, digital, and HDTV (chapter 6)
• Prime time & the prime time access rule (PTAR) (chapter 6)
• The development of cable (the network era) (chapter 6)
• narrowcasting (chapter 6)
• Podcasting (blog)
• Premium channels, Pay-per-view (PPV), Video-on-demand (VOD), and Direct broadcast satellite (DBS), VCR's, DVD's, DVR's (chapter 6)
• Time shifting (6)
• Third screens (internet) & fourth screens (Smartphones) (6)
• Television genres: sketch comedy, situational comedy, anthology dramas, episodic series, chapter shows, serial programs, network news, reality tv, game/quiz shows, etc. (6)
• Public television (PBS) and its effect/influence (6)
• The telecommunications Act of 1996 (6)
• Television production and distribution (6)
• Syndication (6)
• Television ratings (6)
• Major broadcast companies (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, PBS, Netflix, AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner, Hulu, etc.) (6)
• I Love Lucy (blog)
• Twilight Zone (blog)
• Star Trek (blog)
• The FCC (blog & chapter 6, etc.)
• RCA (blog & chapter 6 & chapter 5)
• The history of Television (blog)
• How to write a TV script and a scripts 3-act structure (blog)
• Story pitch, Teaser, Subplot, Slugline, Description, Dialogue, Transitions (blog)
• 6 Days to Air (South Park documentary)
• The Rule of Thirds (photographic journalism, blog)
• Visual storytelling (blog)
• Rules of Photographic Composition (blog)
• PSA (public service announcement)
• Propaganda (blog)
• Public Relations & Advertising (blog)
• The History of Journalism (blog & links; chapter 14)
• Objective/subjective (blog)
• Johannes Gutenberg & the Printing Press, John Peter Zenger & NY Weekly journal, Ben Franklin & the Saturday Evening Post, Penny Presses, Joseph Pulitzer & Randolph Hurst, Yellow Journalism, The Yellow Kid, Radio & Radio Broadcasting, Adolph Ochs & the New York Times, newsreels, Tom Wolfe & New Journalism, Hunter S. Thompson & Gonzo Journalism, Woodward & Bernstein (chapter 8, & blog, technology presentations)
• Nellie Bly (blog)
• The Pulitzer Prize (blog/article, chapter 8)
• Investigative Journalism (blog)
• New Journalism (blog)
• Journalism terms: masthead, headline, byline, feature, op ed, dateline, exclusive, etc.
• Attribution & leads (blog)
• Different types of leads: name, event, time, place, cause, manner (blog)
• Different types of angles for journalism articles (blog)
• The inverted pyramid (blog)
• Featuring the feature (blog)
• How to create an outline (blog, handout)
• Journalist ethics (blog; handouts; chapter 14) & Values in American Journalism (chapter 14)
• The Associated Press (blog)
• Fake news & Snopes (blog)
• Shattered Glass (film); plagiarism
• Goodnight & Good Luck (film); Edward Murrow & McCarthyism, censorship (blog/article)
• Conflict of interest (chapter 14)
• News (chapter 14)
• What makes something newsworthy (blog & chapter 14)
• Active vs. passive voice & tips on how to write in a more journalistic style (blog)
• Objective, literary, and interpretive journalism (chapter 8)
• Consensus vs. conflict-oriented journalism (chapter 8)
• Ethnocentrism, responsible capitalism, small-town pastoralism, individualism (chapter 14)
• Types & styles of Documentaries (blog)
• Public Relations, Propaganda, & Advertising (blog & chapter 12)
• Film (Chp. 7)
• Film camera shots: extreme long shots, extreme close ups, close ups, long shots, full shots, reaction shots, medium shots, deep focus shots, high and low angles, birds-eye angle, high & low key lighting, panning, crane/tracking shots, eye-line match shot, etc.
• Edweard Muybridge, Edison, & the Lumieres (chp. 7)
• The kinetoscope, nickelodeons, etc. (chp. 7)
• Convergence in the media (all chapters--you should be able to apply the concept to television, film, newspapers, journalism, etc.)