This course is an introduction to the basic principles, procedures, and techniques of television production. The Television Elective course includes video control, special effects, operation of cameras and editing machines, composition, lighting, staging, and directing, on-camera announcing and interviewing.
1- Welcome to Class
1- Introduction and Course Description
2- Course Objective and other class expectations–TV Production
2- TV Production Overview
1- TV Production
2- Bird’s Eye View
3- Part II
4- TV Production II
5- Three Production Phases
6- Part II
7- Confusing the Medium With the Message
Assignment: TV Production Roles Assignment
3- Program Proposals
1- Introduction
2- Writing the Program Proposal
3- Agreement On Your Proposal
4- Proposal Engages the Audience
Assignment: TV Production Proposal
4- Capturing/Holding Viewer Attention
1- Introduction
2- Get Their Attention!
3- Reality 101
4- Hit the Target (Audience)
5- Audience-Engaging Techniques
Assignment: Viewer Attention–Public Relations
5- Quiz
Quiz: Proposals/Viewer Attention
6- Fifteen Production Steps
1- The Production Sequence
2- Identify the Purpose
3- Check Out Similar Productions
4- Treatment/Production Proposal
5- Decide On Locations
6- Permits, Insurance and Clearances
Quiz: Production Steps
7- Storyboard Project
Assignment: Television Production Vocabulary
Assignment: Choose Your Favorite TV Show
8- Scripts
1- Introduction
2- Concrete-to-Abstract Continuum
Assignment: Concrete-to-Abstract Continuum Short Answer
3- Spicing Up Interviews
Assignment: Spicing up Interviews Short Answer
4- Script Writing Guidelines
Assignment: Short Answer– Broadcast Writing Guidelines
5- Script Writing Guidelines II
6- Broadcast Style
Worksheet: Broadcast Style
7- Ten News writing Guidelines
Assignment: Newswriting Guidelines–Short Answer
8- Correlate Audio and Video
Assignment: Audio and video
9- Lost vs. Bored
Worksheet: Lost vs. Bored–Short Answer
10- Video Grammar
Worksheet: Video Grammar
11- Script Terms and Abbreviations
Assignment: Script Terms and Abbreviations
12- Internet Resources and Script Assignment
Assignment: Script Project
9- Script Project
Quiz: Scripts
Assignment: Script Project
10- Costing-Out A Production
1- Introduction
2- Above/Below The Line
3- Renting vs. Buying Equipment
4- Attributing Costs
11- The TV Process
1- Introduction
2- Fields and Frames
3- Camera’s Imaging Device
4- Analog and Digital Signals
Assignment: TV Process Assessment
12- World Television Standards
1- Introduction
2- Aspect Ratios
3- NTSC Broadcast Standard
4- PAL and SECAM Television Systems
5- Film and Video Conversion Processes
6- Digital and High-Definition Television
7- Anatomy of Digital TV Signals
8- World Television Standards
9- Converting Wide-Screen Formats
10- HDTV In-Set Conversion
11- Digital Cinema
13- Quiz
Quiz: Cost, Process, Standards
14- Lenses
1- Introduction
2- Lens Focal Length
3- Zoom and Prime Lenses
4- Angle of View
5- A Zoom vs. A Dolly
6- Zoom Ratio
7- Distance Speed Perspective
8- Compressing Distance
9- Wandering Road Signs
10- Apparent Speed of Objects
11- Perspective Changes
15- F-Stops and Creative Focus
1- Techniques
2- Techniques(cont)
3- Depth of Field
4- Focusing A Lens
5- Selective Focus
6- Follow Focus
7- Auto focus Lenses
8- Macro Lens Setting
16- Lens Assignment
Assignment: Lenses/ Focus Assignment
17- Filters and Lens
1- Lens Shades
2- Filters
3- Polarizing Filters
4- Contrast Control Filters
5- Color Conversion Filters
6- Fluorescent Light
7- General Considerations
18- Final Elements
1- Introduction
2- Lens Coatings
3- Cleaning Lenses
4- Rain Jackets
5- Short Boxes
6- Lens Mounts
19- Wonderful World of Color
1- Introduction
2- Subtractive Color
3- Additive Color
4- Simultaneous Contrast
5- Three-Chip Video Cameras
6- One-Chip Color Cameras
7- Video Quality I
8- The Waveform Monitor
9- Video Quality
10- Vector scope
20- Quiz
Quiz: Filters, Elements, Color
21- Video Camera Operation
1- Camera Basics
2- Video Resolution
3- Determining Resolution
4- Light Levels
5- Night Vision Modules
6- Camera Mounts
7- Camera Basics II
8- Studio Camera Mounts
9- Follow Me Camera Mount
10- Camera Jibs
11- Camera Tracks
22- Color Balancing Cameras
1- Introduction
2- White Balancing
3- Lying to Your Camera
4- Black Level
5- Color Reproduction
23- Creative Control
1- Shutter Speeds
2- Resulting Exposure
3- CCD Shutter Speed
4- Stroboscopic Effects
5- High Shutter Speeds
6- Variable Frame Rate Cameras
24- View Finders
1- Camera Viewfinder
2- Left and Right-Eyed People
3- Camera Safe Areas
4- Adjusting the Viewfinder
5- Status Indicators
25- Quiz
Quiz: Camera, Viewers, Color
26- Camera Prompters
1- Introduction
2- Hard Copy Prompters
3- Issues
27- Composition and Graphics
1- Setting the Scene
2- Form vs. Content
3- Insert Shots and Cutaways
4- Enhancing the Message
5- Defining Composition
28- Elements of Composition
1- Introduction
2- Slow = Boring
3- Depicting Emotional States
4- Selective Focus
5- Leading the Subject
6- Horizontal and Vertical Lines
29- Elements of Composition II
1- Maintaining Tonal Balance
2- Balance Mass
3- Pattern of Meaning
4- Concrete and the Abstract
5- Using Lines
6- Frame Central Subject Matter
30- Elements of Composition III
1- Introduction
2- Convey Meaning
3- Avoid Mergers
4- Number of Prime Objects
5- Balance Complexity and Order
6- Movement and Meaning
31- Quiz
Quiz: Elements of Compostion
32- Graphics and Virtual Reality Sets
1- Introduction
2- Titling
3- Image Editors
4- 3-D Modeling and Animation
5- Electronic Graphics
6- Graphics and Virtual Reality Sets II
7- Motion Tracking
33- Lighting
1- Introduction
2- Light Coherence
3- Hard/Soft Lighting
4- Ultra-Soft Lighting
5- Color Temperature
6- Varying Color Temperature
7- Broken Spectrum Sources
8- Fluorescents
9- Types of Discharge Lights
10- Controlling Intensity
11- Studio/Field Light Levels
12- Light Meters
13- Light Meters II
14- Sensitivity of a Video Camera
15- Color Temperature Meters
16- Controlling Light Intensity
34- Lighting II
1- Lighting Instruments
2- Fresnels/Scoops
3- Ellipsoidal Spots
4- Camera Lights
5- Attachments to Lighting Instruments
6- The Key Light
7- Key Light Considerations
8- The Key’s Vertical Angle
9- Sun As a Key
10- Background Lights
11- The Fill Light
12- The Back Light
35- Lighting III
1- Lighting Ratios
2- Back Light Intensity
3- Subject-to-Background Distance
4- Special Lighting
5- Bounced Light
6- Lighting Multiple Subjects
7- Area Lighting
8- Natural Light
9- Altering Appearances
10- Minimizing Surface Detail
11- High/Low Key
12- Final Issues
13- Lighting Plot
14- Setting Up Lights
15- Power Issues
Quiz: Lighting
36- Creating a floorplan for the studio set
Assignment: project
37- Audio
1- The Basics
2- Loudness
3- Frequency
4- Listening Conditions
5- Microphones
6- Dynamic Microphones
7- Types of Mics
8- Directional Characteristics
9- Cardioid
10- Microphones II
11- Positioning Handheld Mics
12- Forced Perception
13- Mic Connectors
14- Wireless Microphones
15- Transmitting Range
16- Wireless Mic
17- Off-Camera
18- The Shotgun Mic
19- Microphone Booms
38- Audio II
1- Sound Types
2- Multi-Track Recording
3- X-Y and M-S Micing Techniques
4- Keeping Dialogue
5- Surround-Sound
6- Digital Audio
7- Copying vs. Cloning
8- Audio Levels
9- Audio Control Devices
10- Microphones in the Studio
11- Multiple Mics
12- Audio Mixer Controls
13- Audio Recording
14- Compact Discs
15- Audio Recording II
16- Computer Hard Drives
17- Audio Editing Systems
18- Wrapping Up Audio
19- Compressors
20- Audio Expanders
Assignment: Audio Assignment
Assignment: Create an Audio Quiz
40- Video Recording
1- Introduction
2- Videotape Recording Process
3- Disk-Based Recording
4- Solid State Memory
5- Consumer Video Formats
6- Digital Compression
7- Compression Codecs
8- Consumer Video Formats
9- Digital Formats
10- RAM Recording
11- Professional Video Formats
12- One-Inch, Reel-to-Reel
13- Error-Correction Circuitry
14- Professional Digital Formats
15- DVCAM, Digital Betacam
16- High-Definition Formats
17- Video Recorder Operations
18- Spot-Checking a Tape
19- Care/Handling of Videotape
Quiz: Voice Recording
42- Editing
1- Continuity Editing
2- Changing Expected Continuity
3- Acceleration Editing
4- Causality
5- Continuity Techniques
6- Relational/Thematic Editing
7- Solving Continuity Problems
8- Bridging Interview Edits
9- Shooting Angles
10- Technical Continuity
11- Things To Be Alert For
12- Continuity Issues
43- Editing II
1- Editing Guidelines
2- Maintaining Consistency
3- Editing Guidelines II
4- Varying Tempo
5- Five Rules for Editing
6- Linear and Nonlinear Editing
7- Laptop Editing Systems
8- Video Servers
9- Making Use of Time-Code
10- Breaking the Code
11- Drop-Frame Time-code
12- User Bits
13- Longitudinal Time-code (LTC)
14- Jam-Sync in VITC Editing
15- On-Line and Off-Line Editing
16- Digital Editing
17- Paper-and-Pencil Edit
Quiz: Editing
45- Producing/Directing
1- Studio Production
2- The Directing Process
3- Color Bars, Slate Countdown Clock
4- Standby
5- Need to Anticipate
6- Video Switchers
7- Video Switchers II
8- Chroma Key
9- Multiple-Camera Remotes
10- On-Location Survey
11- Camera Positions
12- Audio Concerns
13- Single-Camera Production
14- Film-Style Dramatic Production
15- The Master Shot
16- Actors and Talent
46- TV Jobs Assignment
Assignment: TV Jobs
47- News and Documentary
1- Introduction
2- Difference Between ENG and EFP
3- Broadcast News
4- Popular Documentaries
5- Controversial Subject Matter
6- ENG Personnel
7- Video Journalists
8- News Producer’s Checklist
9- News and Documentary
10- On-Location News Interview
11- Be Prepared
12- Commitment and Courage
13- Transmissions
14- Fiber Optics
15- Microwave Links
16- The Cano beam System
17- Satellites
18- Satellites II
19- Flyaway Units
Quiz: News
48- Documentary Essay
Essay: Documentary Essay
49- Legal and Ethical
1- Introduction
2- Privacy-Public/Private Individuals
3- Intrusion
4- Guidelines for Intrusion
5- Shield Laws
6- Defamation
7- Staging
8- Moral Development
9- Comparable Footage
10- Public Domain
11- Music and Sound Effect
12- Do’s and Don’ts
50- Non-Broadcast Television
1- Introduction
2- Institutional Video
3- Presentation Formats
4- Vocational Video
5- Careers
6- Careers II
7- On-Camera/Behind-the-Camera
8- Colleges for Broadcasting
9- Broadcast Journalism
10- Internships
11- Résumés
12- Sample Résumé
13- Sample Cover Letter
14- Video Awards
15- Personal Interview
16- A Final Word
51- TV Supervisor Assignment
Assignment: TV Supervisor
52- Course Survey
1- Course Survey
Handout: Course Survey
Assignment: Course Survey
