Video Basics (with InfoTrac)

This textbook describes the concepts, tools, and activities needed to get started in video production, with chapters on operating the camera, lighting the set, videotape recording systems, the production studio, editing, and acting techniques. The fourth edition adds chapters on postproduction and the basic principles of directing. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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A text for a one-semester course for beginning students in video production. Material moves from idea and production processes to tools and techniques necessary to bring about the production, and then to the production environment and talent. Sections cover production processes, analog and digital image creation, video recording and editing, and studio and field production environments, with discussion of synthetic video and multimedia. Includes key terms and concepts and b&w photos. Zettl is professor emeritus of broadcast and electronic communication arts at San Francisco State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Herbert Zettl is a Professor Emeritus of the Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts Department at San Francisco State University (SFSU). While at SFSU, he headed the Institute of International Media Communication and received the California State Legislature Distinguished Teaching Award and, from the Broadcast Education Association, the Distinguished Education Service Award. Prior to joining the SFSU faculty, Zettl worked at KOVR (Stockton-Sacramento) and as a producer-director at KPIX, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco. While at KPIX, he participated in a variety of CBS and NBC network television productions. Because of his outstanding contributions to the television profession, he was elected to the prestigious Silver Circle of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), Northern California Chapter. He also is a member of the Broadcast Legends of the NATAS, Northern California Chapter. Zettl is author of VIDEO BASICS, VIDEO BASICS WORKBOOK, TELEVISION PRODUCTION HANDBOOK, and SIGHT SOUND MOTION, which are translated into several languages and published internationally. Zettl developed an interactive DVD-ROM, ZETTL'S VIDEOLAB 3.0, published by Wadsworth, a part of Cengage Learning. His previous CD-ROM version won several prestigious awards, among them the Macromedia People's Choice Award, the New Media Invision Gold Medal for Higher Education, and Invision Silver Medals in the categories of Continuing Education and Use of Video.