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Learn how to anticipate and quickly overcome commonly encountered problems in television production as author Jim Owens details each process, including the secrets of top-grade camerawork, persuasive lighting techniques, and effective sound treatment, as well as the subtle processes of scenic design, directing, and the art of video editing.
List of contents
1. An Overview of Television Production
2. The People Who Make it Happen
3. The Television Production Facility
4. The Production Process
5. The Script and Production Plan
6. What the Camera Can Do
7. Using the Camera
8. The Persuasive Camera
9. Creating an Effective Image
10. Television Graphics
11. Lighting for Television
12. Backgrounds and Sets
13. Makeup and Costumes
14. Audio for Television
15. Recording the Story
16. Editing the Production
17. Production Practices
18. The Studio Production
19. Directing Talent
20. Production Style
21. Remote Production
22. Distributing Your Production
Glossary
Index
About the author
Jim Owens has worked and taught in the video and television industry for over 30 years. As an Emmy Award-winning producer, he has worked on local, regional, and national productions. Owens' international television work has included 15 Olympic broadcasts and has taken him to over 25 countries. He is the author of the
Video Production Handbook,
Television Production, and
Television Sports Production (all published by Routledge), and has had over 30 articles published in television and broadcast magazines in the United States and Europe. He served as the curator of the History of Olympic Broadcasting exhibition at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. Owens is Dean of the School of Communication Arts at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky, where he has taught since 1981.
Summary
Learn how to anticipate and quickly overcome commonly encountered problems in television production as author Jim Owens details each process, including the secrets of top-grade camerawork, persuasive lighting techniques, and effective sound treatment, as well as the subtle processes of scenic design, directing, and the art of video editing.
