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Television Production Online High School Elective

This course is an introduction to the basic principles, procedures, and techniques of television production. The Television Elective course includes video control, special effects, operation of cameras and editing machines, composition, lighting, staging, and directing, on-camera announcing and interviewing.

Course Outline

  • Introduction and Course Description
  • Course Objective and other class expectations–TV Production
  • TV Production
  • Bird’s Eye View
  • Part II
  • TV Production II
  • Three Production Phases
  • Part II
  • Confusing the Medium With the Message
  • Assignment: TV Production Roles Assignment
  • Introduction
  • Writing the Program Proposal
  • Agreement On Your Proposal
  • Proposal Engages the Audience
  • Assignment: TV Production Proposal
  • Introduction
  • Get Their Attention!
  • Reality 101
  • Hit the Target (Audience)
  • Audience-Engaging Techniques
  • Assignment: Viewer Attention–Public Relations
  • The Production Sequence
  • Identify the Purpose
  • Check Out Similar Productions
  • Treatment/Production Proposal
  • Decide On Locations
  • Permits, Insurance and Clearances
  • Quiz: Production Steps
  • Assignment: Television Production Vocabulary
  • Assignment: Choose Your Favorite TV Show
  • Introduction
  • Concrete-to-Abstract Continuum
  • Assignment: Concrete-to-Abstract Continuum Short Answer
  • Spicing Up Interviews
  • Assignment: Spicing up Interviews Short Answer
  • Script Writing Guidelines
  • Assignment: Short Answer– Broadcast Writing Guidelines
  • Script Writing Guidelines II
  • Broadcast Style
  • Worksheet: Broadcast Style
  • Ten News writing Guidelines
  • Assignment: Newswriting Guidelines–Short Answer
  • Correlate Audio and Video
  • Assignment: Audio and video
  • Lost vs. Bored
  • Worksheet: Lost vs. Bored–Short Answer
  • Video Grammar
  • Worksheet: Video Grammar
  • Script Terms and Abbreviations
  • Assignment: Script Terms and Abbreviations
  • Internet Resources and Script Assignment
  • Assignment: Script Project
  • Quiz: Scripts
  • Assignment: Script Project
  • Introduction
  • Above/Below The Line
  • Renting vs. Buying Equipment
  • Attributing Costs
  • Introduction
  • Fields and Frames
  • Camera’s Imaging Device
  • Analog and Digital Signals
  • Assignment: TV Process Assessment
  • Introduction
  • Aspect Ratios
  • NTSC Broadcast Standard
  • PAL and SECAM Television Systems
  • Film and Video Conversion Processes
  • Digital and High-Definition Television
  • Anatomy of Digital TV Signals
  • World Television Standards
  • Converting Wide-Screen Formats
  • HDTV In-Set Conversion
  • Digital Cinema
  • Techniques
  • Techniques(cont)
  • Depth of Field
  • Focusing A Lens
  • Selective Focus
  • Follow Focus
  • Auto focus Lenses
  • Macro Lens Setting
  • Introduction
  • Lens Focal Length
  • Zoom and Prime Lenses
  • Angle of View
  • A Zoom vs. A Dolly
  • Zoom Ratio
  • Distance Speed Perspective
  • Compressing Distance
  • Wandering Road Signs
  • Apparent Speed of Objects
  • Perspective Changes
  • Techniques
  • Techniques(cont)
  • Depth of Field
  • Focusing A Lens
  • Selective Focus
  • Follow Focus
  • Auto focus Lenses
  • Macro Lens Setting
  • Assignment: Lenses/ Focus Assignment
  • Lens Shades
  • Filters
  • Polarizing Filters
  • Contrast Control Filters
  • Color Conversion Filters
  • Fluorescent Light
  • General Considerations
  • Introduction
  • Lens Coatings
  • Cleaning Lenses
  • Rain Jackets
  • Short Boxes
  • Lens Mounts
  • Introduction
  • Subtractive Color
  • Additive Color
  • Simultaneous Contrast
  • Three-Chip Video Cameras
  • One-Chip Color Cameras
  • Video Quality I
  • The Waveform Monitor
  • Video Quality
  • Vector scope
  • Quiz: Filters, Elements, Color
  • Camera Basics
  • Video Resolution
  • Determining Resolution
  • Light Levels
  • Night Vision Modules
  • Camera Mounts
  • Camera Basics II
  • Studio Camera Mounts
  • Follow Me Camera Mount
  • Camera Jibs
  • Camera Tracks
  • Introduction
  • White Balancing
  • Lying to Your Camera
  • Black Level
  • Color Reproduction
  • Shutter Speeds
  • Resulting Exposure
  • CCD Shutter Speed
  • Stroboscopic Effects
  • High Shutter Speeds
  • Variable Frame Rate Cameras
  • Camera Viewfinder
  • Left and Right-Eyed People
  • Camera Safe Areas
  • Adjusting the Viewfinder
  • Status Indicators
  • Quiz: Camera, Viewers, Color
  • Introduction
  • Issues
  • Hard Copy Prompters
  • Setting the Scene
  • Form vs. Content
  • Insert Shots and Cutaways
  • Enhancing the Message
  • Defining Composition
  • Introduction
  • Slow = Boring
  • Depicting Emotional States
  • Selective Focus
  • Leading the Subject
  • Horizontal and Vertical Lines
  • Maintaining Tonal Balance
  • Balance Mass
  • Pattern of Meaning
  • Concrete and the Abstract
  • Using Lines
  • Frame Central Subject Matter
  • Introduction
  • Convey Meaning
  • Avoid Mergers
  • Number of Prime Objects
  • Balance Complexity and Order
  • Movement and Meaning
  • Quiz: Elements of Compostion
  • Introduction
  • Titling
  • Image Editors
  • 3-D Modeling and Animation
  • Electronic Graphics
  • Graphics and Virtual Reality Sets II
  • Motion Tracking
  • Introduction
  • Light Coherence
  • Hard/Soft Lighting
  • Ultra-Soft Lighting
  • Color Temperature
  • Varying Color Temperature
  • Broken Spectrum Sources
  • Fluorescents
  • Types of Discharge Lights
  • Controlling Intensity
  • Studio/Field Light Levels
  • Light Meters
  • Light Meters II
  • Sensitivity of a Video Camera
  • Color Temperature Meters
  • Controlling Light Intensity
  • Lighting Instruments
  • Fresnels/Scoops
  • Ellipsoidal Spots
  • Camera Lights
  • Attachments to Lighting Instruments
  • The Key Light
  • Key Light Considerations
  • The Key’s Vertical Angle
  • Sun As a Key
  • Background Lights
  • The Fill Light
  • The Back Light
  • Lighting Ratios
  • Back Light Intensity
  • Subject-to-Background Distance
  • Special Lighting
  • Bounced Light
  • Lighting Multiple Subjects
  • Area Lighting
  • Natural Light
  • Altering Appearances
  • Minimizing Surface Detail
  • High/Low Key
  • Final Issues
  • Lighting Plot
  • Setting Up Lights
  • Power Issues
  • Quiz: Lighting
  • Assignment: project
  • The Basics
  • Loudness
  • Frequency
  • Listening Conditions
  • Microphones
  • Dynamic Microphones
  • Types of Mics
  • Directional Characteristics
  • Cardioid
  • Microphones II
  • Positioning Handheld Mics
  • Forced Perception
  • Mic Connectors
  • Wireless Microphones
  • Transmitting Range
  • Wireless Mic
  • Off-Camera
  • The Shotgun Mic
  • Microphone Booms
  • Sound Types
  • Multi-Track Recording
  • X-Y and M-S Micing Techniques
  • Keeping Dialogue
  • Surround-Sound
  • Digital Audio
  • Copying vs. Cloning
  • Audio Levels
  • Audio Control Devices
  • Microphones in the Studio
  • Multiple Mics
  • Audio Mixer Controls
  • Audio Recording
  • Compact Discs
  • Audio Recording II
  • Computer Hard Drives
  • Audio Editing Systems
  • Wrapping Up Audio
  • Compressors
  • Audio Expanders
  • Assignment: Audio Assignment
  • Assignment: Create an Audio Quiz
  • Introduction
  • Videotape Recording Process
  • Disk-Based Recording
  • Solid State Memory
  • Consumer Video Formats
  • Digital Compression
  • Compression Codecs
  • Consumer Video Formats
  • Digital Formats
  • RAM Recording
  • Professional Video Formats
  • One-Inch, Reel-to-Reel
  • Error-Correction Circuitry
  • Professional Digital Formats
  • DVCAM, Digital Betacam
  • High-Definition Formats
  • Video Recorder Operations
  • Spot-Checking a Tape
  • Care/Handling of Videotape
  • Quiz: Voice Recording
  • Continuity Editing
  • Changing Expected Continuity
  • Acceleration Editing
  • Causality
  • Continuity Techniques
  • Relational/Thematic Editing
  • Solving Continuity Problems
  • Bridging Interview Edits
  • Shooting Angles
  • Technical Continuity
  • Things To Be Alert For
  • Continuity Issues
  • Quiz: Careers/Internet
  • Editing Guidelines
  • Maintaining Consistency
  • Editing Guidelines II
  • Varying Tempo
  • Five Rules for Editing
  • Linear and Nonlinear Editing
  • Laptop Editing Systems
  • Video Servers
  • Making Use of Time-Code
  • Breaking the Code
  • Drop-Frame Time-code
  • User Bits
  • Longitudinal Time-code (LTC)
  • Jam-Sync in VITC Editing
  • On-Line and Off-Line Editing
  • Digital Editing
  • Paper-and-Pencil Edit
  • Quiz: Editing
  • Studio Production
  • The Directing Process
  • Color Bars, Slate Countdown Clock
  • Standby
  • Need to Anticipate
  • Video Switchers
  • Video Switchers II
  • Chroma Key
  • Multiple-Camera Remotes
  • On-Location Survey
  • Camera Positions
  • Audio Concerns
  • Single-Camera Production
  • Film-Style Dramatic Production
  • The Master Shot
  • Actors and Talent
  • Assignment: TV Jobs
  • Introduction
  • Difference Between ENG and EFP
  • Broadcast News
  • Popular Documentaries
  • Controversial Subject Matter
  • ENG Personnel
  • Video Journalists
  • News Producer’s Checklist
  • News and Documentary
  • – On-Location News Interview
  • Be Prepared
  • Commitment and Courage
  • Transmissions
  • Fiber Optics
  • Microwave Links
  • The Cano beam System
  • Satellites
  • Satellites II
  • Flyaway Units
  • Quiz: News
  • Essay: Documentary Essay
  • Introduction
  • Privacy-Public/Private Individuals
  • Intrusion
  • Guidelines for Intrusion
  • Shield Laws
  • Defamation
  • Staging
  • Moral Development
  • Comparable Footage
  • Public Domain
  • Music and Sound Effect
  • Do’s and Don’ts
  • Introduction
  • Institutional Video
  • Presentation Formats
  • Vocational Video
  • Careers
  • Careers II
  • On-Camera/Behind-the-Camera
  • Colleges for Broadcasting
  • Broadcast Journalism
  • Internships
  • Résumés
  • Sample Résumé
  • Sample Cover Letter
  • Video Awards
  • Personal Interview
  • A Final Word
  • Assignment: TV Supervisor
  • Course Survey
  • Handout: Course Survey
  • Assignment: Course Survey
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