Overview
Up-to-date, friendly and practical
All you need to know to produce TV shows-in and out of the studio!
Studio and Camcorder Television Production is an up-to-the-minute, start-to-finish course in the skills needed to produce today's TV shows-and tomorrow's.
- A comprehensive, up-to-the-minute course in TV production
- Covers both professional and consumer video equipment
- Step-by-step, "how-to" coverage of the newest techniques
- Digital video, multimedia, HDTV, and more!
Through hands-on, team-based activities, you'll learn how to get powerful results from both industrial and consumer-grade video equipment. You'll master the management skills you need to deliver on-time and on-budget-and the artistic skills you need to create exciting productions. Coverage includes:
- Studio and on-location techniques
- The fundamentals of directing, performing, editing, and scripting
- Working as part of a production team
- Multimedia and desktop video production
- Both analog and digital equipment and methods
- Lighting and audio: equipment and techniques-in-depth
This friendly, easy-to-understand text reflects extraordinary teaching expertise and a broad understanding of today's video skills-and tomorrow's. You'll master teleprompters, cameras, lenses, mounting equipment, and camera angles; microphones, mixers, and digital audio; switchers and special effects; VCRs and camcorders, TV graphics, and much more. There's a full chapter previewing the latest high-definition TV systems-and how they'll impact video production.
No matter what kind of video you want to produce-industrial, commercial, or desktop-get your jumpstart with Studio and Camcorder Television Production.
Instructors: Contact Prentice Hall for a comprehensive instructor's manual, containing course outlines, lab setups, study questions and answers.