Description
In this assignment you will learn to critically deconstruct the process of studio TV production. You will also examine the “TV Production System” which poses that visual information is created through a system of financing, technology, people and techniques.
What are the benefits of dividing the production process into the three basic phases? Describe how these phases interlock and overlap. Describe why and when you might use an alternate system.
What is Pre-Production? What are its major benefits? List at least three physical things that are created in pre-production.
What are the advantages and the disadvantages of a production model when dealing with dramatic content?
What are the advantages and the disadvantages of a production model when dealing with non-dramatic, goal-oriented content?
What distinguishes non-technical from technical personnel? What are some ways in which their functions overlap? Why? What is ‘digital convergence’? What are creative directors? What are TV engineers? How do they represent opposite poles of video production?
What are the specific functions of news personnel? Why are they in a separate category from the non-news technical and non-technical personnel? How do they interface with creative personnel?
What are the characteristics of a “system”? How are techniques different from technologies?
How does television production fit the definition of a “system”?
What components are necessary for the basic television system to operate? Define the role that each component plays in the system.
What types of components can be added to the basic television system? What production capability do these added components bring to the expanded television