Description
Book Synopsis
The Essential TV Director''s Handbook is written by an ex-BBC trainer with a great deal of experience in the world of television. It describes step-by-step how to prepare and direct every familiar type of common programme format including interviews, discussions, reportage, music and dramatisations shot either on location or in the multi-camera studio. It is the essential reference handbook for any director confronted by a new programme format or the challenge of an unfamiliar technology. An appendix suggests plans for the most commonly encountered studio situations.
Television culture has been changing fast. Whilst technology races on at a frightening pace programme budgets have been slashed, job descriptions widened as more people have to `multi-skill'', and traditional routes of entry have become increasingly difficult to find, with diminishing access to professional training.
Yet the skills and practical knowledge
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Television grammar; Chapter 2 It's only an interview; Chapter 3 Interviews and cameras; Chapter 4 Into the studio; Chapter 5 More boring grammar; Chapter 6 Here's one I prepared earlier; Chapter 7 Presenters; Chapter 8 On location; Chapter 9 Writing commentary; Chapter 10 The sound of music; Chapter 11 Performance; Chapter 12 Drama notes;
