Journalism in English
Number of Seats: 25
Minimum Qualification: Graduation with 50% aggregate marks |
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Developing your voice
By Ramesh Menon
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Day long workshop with physical exercises related to voice training. Voice exercises were also done. The expectation is that students will practice these daily to achieve broadcast quality voice. |
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Creative Design Workshop
By Ashish Chatterjee |
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| Students got the basic idea of design and started thinking of how design can be exploited to add a different perspective to the way they spin creative ideas. Students designed their personal stationery and designed masks. |
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Still Photography Workshop
By Satyashree Gandham |
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| Was an attempt to understand the role and importance of photography in the world of advertising, public relations and journalism. The idea was to tell a story through pictures. It gave them an idea on how to produce correct compositions with the right exposure. |
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Video Workshop
By Satyashree Gandham |
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Students learnt how to tell a story with moving pictures. With the help of studio lights learnt how to make great pictures in the most difficult circumstances. Sudents learnt how to handle the camera and come up with meaningful compositions. Students were expected to come up with a story that demonstrates their understanding of the visual medium. |
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Theatre Workshop
By Ramesh Menon |
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High energy workshop that made students drop their inhibitions, ideate creatively, learn how to work together by sharing ideas and finally how to produce a play in 20 minutes flat! A week after the workshop, students staged a public performance of plays written, directed and produced by them. |
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Workshop on Right to Information
By Manish Sisodia and Priyanka Tyagi |
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These RTI activists detailed out the intricacies of the Right to Information Act, what it means to the common man, case studies from India and how to fill up a RTI form and follow it up. A theatre group also performed a street play highlighting the need to fight for justice using the government machinery. |
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Workshop on Getting rid of your childhood burdens
By Ramesh Menon |
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Many of us carry burdens from our childhood. These could be resentment, anger, hatred, jealousy, revenge and so on. These bottled up feelings simmer within us and do great damage to the way we look at life and communicate with others. The workshop helps you identify those hurts and heals them making you feel free and unburdened. |
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Workshop on Radio Programming
By Pankaj Dubey, Mallika, Sakshi and Sandeep Saha |
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Students learnt about the radio revolution rocking India, radio jockeying, production of radio spots and the production of radio programmes. |
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Workshop on Human Rights
By Amnesty International |
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Students were exposed to an exhibition of photographs from all over the world detailing human rights violations with details of how people around the globe are suffering. There was a film screened on the communal riots in Gujarat which was followed up with a discussion. |
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Workshop on Deconstruction of the Media
By A.F. Mathew |
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Spread over two weeks in two semesters, students were exposed to various perspectives on religion, society, caste, politics, racism, sexuality, gender and so on. Films were also shown to illustrate various points of view opening up new truths. |
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Workshop on Quark Express
By Syed Athar Hussain |
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| Students brought out an eight page tabloid using Quark Express. They edited and designed it too. |
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Workshop on Creative Writing
By Biswajit Banerjee |
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Students went though the creative process of how to write creatively. Some wrote travelogues, some wrote imaginary pieces. Many discovered that they write so beautifully… |
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Workshop on Documentary Film making
By Ramesh Menon |
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Students were taken through the entire process from finding the focus of the film to the final product of the film. Films were also shown to illustrate how the idea developed into a film, how the research was done, recee conducted, shooting storyboards written and designed, scripted and edited with effects. |
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| Workshop on Online Journalism |
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Dealt with the online boom we see today. How opportunities are opening up on the web, how to write differently for the internet and how a multimedia story on the internet is opening a new world. Students had to get their writing published and create blogs. |
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