Table of Contents

1. THE TELEVISION PRODUCTION PROCESS.
What Television Production Is All About. Technical Production Systems.
2. THE PRODUCER IN PREPRODUCTION.
What Producing Is All About. Information Resources, Unions, and Ratings.
3. THE SCRIPT.
Basic Script Formats. Dramatic Structure, Conflict, and Dramaturgy.
4. THE DIRECTOR IN PREPRODUCTION.
How a Director Prepares. Communication and Scheduling.
5. THE TELEVISION CAMERA.
How Television Cameras Work. How Digital Video Works.
6. LENSES.
What Lenses Are. What Lenses See.
7. CAMERA OPERATION AND PICTURE COMPOSITION.
Working the Camera. Picture Composition.
8. AUDIO: SOUND PICKUP.
How Microphones Hear. How Microphones Work.
9. AUDIO: SOUND CONTROL.
Sound Controls and Recording. Stereo, Surround Sound, and Sound Aesthetics.
10. LIGHTING.
Lighting Instruments and Lighting Controls. Light Intensity, Baselight Levels, Color Temperature, and Color Mixing.
11. TECHNIQUES OF TELEVISION LIGHTING.
Lighting in the Studio. Lighting in the Field.
12. VIDEO-RECORDING SYSTEMS AND PROCEDURES.
How Video Recording Is Done. Tapeless Video-Recording Systems.
13. SWITCHING, OR INSTANTANEOUS EDITING.
How Switchers Work. Special-Purpose Switchers.
14. DESIGN.
Designing and Using Television Graphics. Scenery and Props.
15. TELEVISION TALENT.
Television Performers and Actors. How to Do Makeup and What to Wear.
16. THE DIRECTOR IN PRODUCTION.
Multicamera Control Room Directing. Single-Camera and Digital Cinema Directing.
17. FIELD PRODUCTION AND BIG REMOTES.
Field Production. Covering Major Events.
18. POSTPRODUCTION EDITING: HOW IT WORKS.
How Nonlinear Editing Works. Audio/Video Linkage.
19. EDITING FUNCTIONS AND PRINCIPLES.
Continuity Editing. Complexity Editing.
Epilogue.
Glossary.
Index.

About the Author

Herbert Zettl is a professor emeritus of the Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts Department at San Francisco State University, where he headed the Institute of International Media Communication and received the California State Legislature Distinguished Teaching Award and the Broadcast Education Association's Distinguished Education Service Award. Prior to joining the SFSU faculty, Zettl worked at KOVR (Stockton-Sacramento) and as a producer-director at KPIX, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco, where he participated in a variety of CBS and NBC network television productions. Because of his outstanding contributions to the television profession, he was elected to the prestigious Silver Circle of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Northern California Chapter. He also is a member of the Broadcast Legends of the NATAS, Northern California Chapter. Zettl is the author of VIDEO BASICS and TELEVISION PRODUCTION HANDBOOK, which are translated into several languages and published internationally. His numerous articles on television production and media aesthetics have appeared in major media journals worldwide. He has lectured extensively on both subjects at universities and professional broadcast institutions both nationally and internationally. In addition, Zettl developed an interactive DVD-ROM, ZETTL'S VIDEOLAB 4.0 (Cengage Learning). His previous CD-ROM version won several prominent awards, including the Macromedia People's Choice Award, the New Media Invision Gold Medal for Higher Education, and Invision Silver Medals in the categories of Continuing Education and Use of Video.