Studio Television Production and Directing: Studio-Based Television Production and Directing

by Utterback; Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780240808734
• ISBN10: 0240808738
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-02-22
• Publisher: Focal Press

Summary

Learn how to direct television programs, understand complex directing tasks, and learn the fundamentals of studio production procedure in this back-to-basics guide to studio-based productions. Learn about lighting, set, camera operations, floor direction, technical direction, audio, tape, graphics, prompting, and assistant directing. As its one of the most challenging types of programming, the live newscast is used to illuminate television producing and directing procedures for your newscast or other program genre. You'll soon be able to direct any type of studio-based program with ease. * A short, quick, easy-reference guide to multicamera TV directing * Heavily illustrated and written in the popular Media Manual format, designed for use on the job

Author Biography

Andrew H. Utterback is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Eastern Connecticut State University.

Table of Contents

Dedication	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Overview of Equipment and Positions: The Studio and the Control Room
Introduction	p. 3
The Television Production Environment	p. 4
The Studio	p. 6
The Studio II	p. 8
The Studio III	p. 10
The Control Room	p. 12
Production Crew	p. 14
Production Crew II	p. 16
Directing and Producing	p. 18
Audio Control and Technical Directing
Introduction	p. 23
Audio Control	p. 24
Audio Flow	p. 26
Signal Strength	p. 28
Signal Processing	p. 30
Audio and the Director	p. 32
Technical Director/Video Switcher	p. 34
The Program Bus and the Key Bus	p. 36
Flip-Flop Switching	p. 38
Additional Transitions	p. 40
A Key is a Video Layer	p. 42
Directing a Key	p. 44
Directing Audio/Directing the TD	p. 46
Lighting and Sets
Introduction	p. 49
Set Placement	p. 50
Risers, Flats, Desk	p. 52
The Weather Wall	p. 54
Lighting	p. 56
The Lighting Grid	p. 58
Spot Lights	p. 60
Flood Lights	p. 62
Lighting Strategy	p. 64
Three-Point Lighting	p. 66
Three-Point Lighting II	p. 68
Flood Lighting	p. 70
Lighting a Chroma Key Wall	p. 72
Studio Cameras and Floor Directing
Introduction	p. 77
Studio Camera	p. 78
Unlock the Locks	p. 80
Parts and Pieces	p. 82
Intercom	p. 84
Camera Operations	p. 86
Camera Commands	p. 88
Camera Tips	p. 90
Floor Directing	p. 92
Microphones and Sound Check	p. 94
Floor Directing the Studio Staff	p. 96
Prompter, Graphics, Tape
Introduction	p. 101
Prompter	p. 102
Graphics Overview	p. 104
Digital Video Effects (DVE)	p. 106
Keying	p. 108
The Job of Graphics	p. 110
The Job of Graphics II	p. 112
Graphics and the Director	p. 114
Tape	p. 116
Live Shots, Microwave, and Satellite Remotes	p. 118
Satellite	p. 120
Directing a Live Remote	p. 122
Rundowns, Scripts, Video Clip Information
Introduction	p. 125
The Rundown	p. 126
Segment Number (Run)	p. 126
Video Source (VID)	p. 128
Video Source (VID) II	p. 130
Location (L)	p. 132
Audio (Aud)	p. 132
Slug (Slug)	p. 134
Timing (SEG and TRT)	p. 134
Reading is Fundamental	p. 136
Video Clip Information	p. 138
Font Sheet or Clip Sheet	p. 140
Font Sheet or Clip Sheet II	p. 142
Font Sheet or Clip Sheet III	p. 144
Assistant Directing and Directing
Assistant Directing	p. 147
Timing Video Clips	p. 149
VO/SOT	p. 151
SOT/VO	p. 153
Directing	p. 155
Camera Versus VTRS	p. 157
Marking a Script	p. 159
Practice	p. 161
Glossary	p. 163
Index	p. 175
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