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Video Production Basics

by Peter Utz
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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.

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Guides reader through the process of television production by addressing such issues as the production team, cameras and lenses, angles and picture composition, lighting, audio, special effects, graphics and titles, videotape, scripting, directing, on-location shooting, editing, and high definition television. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Book Details

Published
February 1, 1999
Publisher
Prentice Hall
Pages
469
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780136327530

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