Television production handbook / Herbert Zettl

CONTENTS
1. The Television Production Process.
1.1 What Television Production is all about
1.2 Studio, Master Control and Support areas

2. Analog and Digital Television.
2.1 Analog and Digital Television
2.2 Scanning System

3. The Television Camera.
3.1 How Television Camera Works
3.2 From Light to Video Image

4. Lenses.
4.1 What Lenses are
4.2 What Lenses See

5. Camera Mounting Equipment.
5.1 Standard Camera Mounts and Movements
5.2 Special Camera mounts

6. Camera Operation and Picture Composition.
6.1 Working with Camera
6.2 Framing effective Shots

7. Lighting.
7.1 Lighting Instruments and Lighting Controls
7.2 lighting Intensity, Lamps and Color Media

8. Techniques of Television Lighting.
8.1 Lightening in the Studio
8.2 Lightening in the Field

9. Audio: Sound Pickup.
9.1 How Microphones hear
9.2 How Microphones work

10. Audio: Sound Control.
10.1 Sound Controls and how to use them
10.2 postproduction and Sound Aesthetics

11. Switching, or Instantaneous Switching, or Instantaneous Editing.
11.1 How Switches work
11.2 What switches do

12. Video-Recording.
12.1 How video recording works
12.2 How video Record is done.

13. Postproduction Editing.
13.1 How postproduction editing works
13.2 Making Decisions

14. Visual Effects.
14.1 Electronic effects and how to use them
14.2 Nonelectronic effects and how to use them


15. Design.
15.1 Designing and using Television graphics
15.2 Scenery and props


16. Production People.
16.1 What production people do
16.2 How to do makeup and what to wear

17. Producing.
17.1 What Producing is all about
17.2 Dealing with Schedules, legal matters and ratings

18. The Director in Preproduction.
18.1 How a director prepares
18.2 moving from Script to screen

19. The Director in Production and Postproduction.
19. Multicare Control Room Directing
19.2 Single-Camera Directing, Postproduction and timing


20. Field Production and Big Remotes.
20.1 Field Production and Big Remotes
20.2 Covering Major Events

Epilogue.
Glossary.
Selected Reading.

Includes index : p. 556-566