CLASS: UG-SKILL BASED ELECTIVE
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St. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS) TIRUCHIRAPPALLI – 620 002
SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS – APRIL 2015
TIME: 3 Hrs.
MAXIMUM MARKS: 100
SEM
SET
PAPER CODE
TITLE OF THE PAPER
VI
2012
11UEN640602
MEDIA SKILLS
SECTION – A
Answer all the questions:
20 x 1 = 20
Choose the correct answer:
1. In electronic media, the outreach is more and audience are ______.
a) Heterogeneous
b) Homogeneous
c) Men
d) Women
2. Apart from broadcast stations, many announcers who work in
industrials, also called ______.
a) Print media
b) Traditional media
c) Corporate media
d) Business media
3. A ______voice does not inspire the audience.
a) Energetic
b) Monotonous
c) Pleasant
d) Confident
4. ______takes your broadcast message from you studio room,
encodes it as sine waves and transmits it as radio waves.
a) Receiver
b) Antenna
c) Cable
d) Transmitter
5. Radio primarily uses ______.
a) Actions
c) Documents
b) Camera
d) Voice
Fill in the blanks:
6.
______media is less intimate in nature.
7.
The term ______refers to one who communicates over the public
airwaves.
8.
The initial step in developing your tone is to ______yourself.
9. ______is used for uninterrupted power supply.
10. ______and sound effects should be used in Radio.
State whether the following statements are true or false:
11. Electronic media provides the facility of recording and archiving
the content for future use.
12. Announcers who are sloppy, unprepared or just plain boring
usually get a promotion.
13. A laid back tone hamper the quality of your enunciation and
emphasis on words.
14. Mixer allows the jockey to control various aspects of radio
broadcast.
15. In Radio the audience can interpret message through body
language and other non-verbal methods.
Match the following:
16. Magazine
- a) Body language
17. Radio
18. Television
19. Antenna
- b) Spoken
- c) Tonal variation
- d) Language
20. Broadcast writing
- e) Radio signals
SECTION – B
Answer all the questions:
5 x 4= 20
21. a. What are the various types of Media?
OR
b. Write a note on Electronic Media.
22. a. Explain the three main attributes of an Announcer.
OR
b. What are the responsibilities of an Announcer?
23. a. How to capture the audience’s interest with your voice?
OR
b. What are the bad vocal habits and how to overcome them?
24. a. Write a note on the Audio Chain.
OR
b. Write a note on Transmission Equipments and their functions.
25. a. Write a short note on Broadcast writing.
OR
b. Bring out the difference between Electronic Script Writing and
Print Script Writing.
SECTION – C
Answer any FOUR questions:
4 x 15 = 60
26. Discuss the advantages and the disadvantages of Traditional
Media and Electronic Media.
27. What are the areas of specialization in the field of Announcing and
how will you prepare yourself to be an announcer?
28. What are the various ways of developing the voice to be an
Announcer in the Media?
29. What are the essential things to setup a radio station?
30. Explain the essential rules to write good Radio Scripts.
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