Digital Television Production : A Handbook

by Jeremy Orlebar

• ISBN13: 9780340763230
• ISBN10: 034076323X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-04
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers

Summary

This is a step-by-step companion designed to teach the reader how to turn ideas into desirable programs suitable for broadcast television. Aimed at newcomers to the television industry and, especially, students taking courses in practical television studies, it offers a clear and straightforward presentation of the entire production process written by an experienced producer, director, writer and lecturer in the field of television production.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(4)
Part One / Preproduction	5	(59)
An idea	7	(5)
Your idea	7	(1)
Finding an idea	8	(2)
Ideas wall	10	(2)
Treatment	12	(7)
Idea to screen	12	(1)
Preproduction	12	(1)
Treatment	13	(1)
Treatment budget	14	(2)
Treatment example	16	(3)
Creating a programme	19	(3)
Story	19	(1)
Characters	20	(1)
Access	21	(1)
Factual research	22	(7)
How to get whom you want	22	(2)
Where to find people	24	(1)
Your research book	25	(1)
Working as a researcher in broadcasting	25	(2)
Useful web sites	27	(2)
The programme budget	29	(6)
Mini budget production	30	(1)
Maxi budget production	31	(4)
Production roles	35	(5)
Producer	35	(1)
Director	36	(1)
Assistant producer	36	(1)
First AD	36	(1)
Production manager	37	(1)
Production assistant	37	(1)
Researchers	37	(1)
The crew	37	(1)
People to be nice to at all times	38	(1)
What would you do?	39	(1)
The recce	40	(4)
Doing a recce	40	(1)
Exterior locations	41	(1)
Interior locations	42	(2)
Health and safety	44	(6)
Responsibility for health and safety	44	(1)
Risk assessment	44	(1)
Hazard Risk Assessment form	45	(5)
The schedule	50	(6)
The Working River schedule	50	(2)
The Night Bus schedule	52	(4)
Storyboard	56	(4)
Storyboard example	56	(4)
Becoming an interviewer	60	(4)
The role of the television Interviewer	60	(1)
Do your own interviews	61	(1)
How to be a good interviewer	61	(1)
Interviewing: post-research checklist	62	(2)
Completing preproduction	64	(1)
Part Two / Production	65	(164)
Factual programme production	67	(2)
The production team	67	(2)
Preparing for interviews	69	(6)
Key interview techniques	69	(4)
Sensitive interview scenario	73	(2)
Shooting interviews	75	(11)
Setting up	75	(1)
Shot size matters	76	(3)
Cutaways	79	(6)
Bluescreen	85	(1)
Lighting and sound for interviews	86	(9)
Lighting for interviews	86	(4)
Location sound for interviews	90	(5)
Interviewing with a presenter	95	(4)
Preparation	95	(1)
Presenter in vision with contributor	95	(1)
Presenter out of vision	96	(1)
Noddies	96	(1)
Shooting reverse questions	97	(2)
Vox pops	99	(3)
Setting up	99	(1)
Filming	99	(2)
Broadcasting	101	(1)
Three-point lighting	102	(5)
The key light	102	(2)
The fill light	104	(1)
The back light	104	(3)
Magazine programmes	107	(6)
Student television magazine programme	107	(1)
Programme guests and contributors	107	(3)
Magazine programme production 10-point master plan	110	(2)
Magazine programme running Order	112	(1)
Shooting script	113	(6)
What is a shooting script?	113	(2)
Shooting script example	115	(4)
Locations for filming	119	(6)
What you are looking for	119	(2)
Location permissions	121	(2)
Cost	123	(1)
Insurance	124	(1)
Production forms	125	(9)
Contributor's Release Form	125	(1)
Using the production forms	126	(1)
Actor's agreement	127	(1)
Accepting contracts and agreements	127	(7)
The filming day	134	(6)
Factual productions preparation	134	(1)
Shooting	135	(1)
Working with a presenter	136	(1)
The filming day	136	(3)
At home or base	139	(1)
Production equipment	140	(10)
You and your camera	140	(6)
Sound	146	(4)
Broadcasting ethics	150	(9)
Utilitarianism	150	(1)
What has Aristotle got to do with it?	151	(1)
Cultural ethics	152	(1)
Broadcasting	152	(1)
Situationalism	152	(1)
Back to the fast food	152	(1)
Practical ethics	153	(1)
A code of conduct	154	(1)
The future	155	(1)
Something about libel	156	(1)
When a court case is active	157	(2)
Script writing	159	(18)
Tell the world	159	(1)
Theme	159	(1)
Story	160	(1)
Characters	161	(1)
Setting	162	(1)
The treatment	162	(1)
Script layout	163	(3)
Writing a screenplay	166	(7)
Improve your script writing	173	(2)
The 10-minute short	175	(2)
Drama production	177	(21)
The drama production team	177	(5)
Script breakdown	182	(3)
Drama production budget	185	(1)
Programme budget	185	(1)
Shooting days	185	(3)
Location scheduling	188	(1)
Marked-up editing script	189	(8)
Dealing with people	197	(1)
Mise-en-scene	198	(3)
Directing drama	201	(7)
Cast contracts	201	(1)
Read-through	201	(1)
Rehearsal	202	(1)
Being the director	203	(5)
Three-way shooting	208	(11)
The cafe scene	208	(1)
The wide shot	209	(1)
Reset for the next scene	210	(1)
The single shots	211	(2)
Crossing the line	213	(1)
Getting the message	214	(2)
Steadycam	216	(1)
Cinematic framing	217	(2)
Lighting for drama	219	(6)
The 10-minute short	225	(4)
Phase one	225	(1)
Phase two	226	(1)
Phase three	227	(2)
Part Three / Postproduction	229	(62)
Desktop digital postproduction	231	(10)
A moment of history	231	(1)
Understand the editing process	232	(1)
Digital editing kit	233	(2)
Computer storage	235	(1)
Time code	235	(1)
Video editing	236	(2)
The professional route	238	(1)
Postproduction budget	238	(3)
The editing process	241	(7)
Editing film	241	(2)
From rushes to fine cut	243	(5)
Editing interviews	248	(7)
Log the rushes	248	(2)
The paper edit	250	(1)
Music	251	(1)
Final cutting order	252	(1)
Commentary-final version	252	(3)
Creative editing	255	(13)
Where to cut	255	(1)
Jump cut	256	(1)
Music	257	(2)
The sound dub	259	(4)
Titles and credits	263	(1)
Bluescreen postproduction	264	(1)
Working with an editor	265	(1)
Desktop system	266	(1)
Editing drama	266	(2)
Copyright issues	268	(21)
What is copyright?	268	(1)
Can an idea be copyrighted?	268	(1)
What is covered by the 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act	269	(2)
What is not covered by copyright	271	(3)
Music copyright	274	(2)
Music details	276	(2)
So who are the copyright companies?	278	(9)
Moral rights-what are they?	287	(2)
Useful books	289	(2)
Index	291