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Basics of video production / Des Lyver and Graham Swainson.
LIBRA PN1992.94 .L98 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lyver, Des.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Video recordings--Production and direction.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 150 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; Boston : Focal Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- This book describes the processes and people involved in a video studio or location production. Serving as a first-time introduction to the subject, it lets you understand some of the terminology and processes from day one.
- Contents:
- 1 Studio production 1
- Two approaches 1
- In studio 2
- The floor area 4
- The rooms around the studio 5
- The gallery area 5
- The lighting control area 7
- The sound control area 7
- The vision engineering area 7
- The machine room 8
- Intercom systems 9
- Health and safety 9
- 2 The director's team 11
- The director 11
- The programme 12
- The scripts 13
- The preparation 13
- The rehearsal 14
- The recording 14
- The production assistant 15
- In the studio 16
- Timing of programmes 17
- Logs 17
- 3 The sound team 19
- The sound team's job 19
- The studio environment 20
- Live studios 20
- Dead studios 21
- Sound equipment 22
- Microphones 22
- Choosing a microphone 22
- Types of microphone 23
- Dynamic 23
- Electrostatic 24
- Electret 25
- Radio 25
- Directional response 26
- Stands and booms 28
- Sound equipment 29
- Source machines 29
- Mixers 30
- 4 The lighting team 33
- What the camera needs 34
- What the camera can do 36
- The aesthetics 36
- Lighting design 37
- The luminaires 37
- Hard lights 39
- Soft lights 39
- Mountings 40
- Power and dimmers 40
- The lighting operator 42
- Planning 43
- 5 The camera team 46
- The cameras 46
- Movements 47
- Controls 48
- 6 The vision mixer 52
- The equipment 53
- The vision mixer 53
- Vision mixer layout 53
- Visual effects 55
- Wipes and mixes 55
- Keying 57
- 7 The engineering team 59
- Vision engineering 60
- Monitor line-up 60
- Camera line-up 61
- Levels of maintenance 61
- First level 61
- Second level 62
- Third level 62
- 8 The floor manager team 63
- Questions to be answered 64
- Communication 65
- Floor manager signals 66
- 9 The scenery team 67
- The scene dock 68
- The props storeroom 68
- Types of props 69
- 10 The wardrobe team 70
- Wardrobe problems 70
- People 70
- Technical problems 71
- Exposure 71
- Colour 71
- Light 72
- 11 The make-up team 73
- Corrective make-up 73
- Artistic make-up 74
- The hairdresser 74
- 12 A little paperwork 76
- Conceptualization 76
- Aims 77
- Target audience 77
- The treatment 78
- The storyboard 80
- The script 82
- Camera cards 84
- 13 Single camera production 85
- The acquisition stage 86
- The editing stage 88
- The post-production stage 89
- Health and safety 89
- Indoors 90
- Outdoors 90
- 14 The Director and PA on location 93
- Pre-production 93
- In production 94
- Post-production 95
- 15 Location lighting 96
- Controlling daylight 96
- What tools can be used? 97
- Lighting safety 99
- 16 The location camera team 100
- What is the camera on? 101
- Power! 102
- Adjusting exposure 102
- Colour balancing 103
- Shots at last! 105
- 17 The location sound team 107
- What do we need to record? 107
- Sync sound 108
- Buzz track 108
- Microphones on location 110
- Microphones in shot 110
- Microphones out of shot 111
- Wind noise 112
- Automatic level control 113
- 18 A little more paperwork 115
- The difference between location and studio 115
- The location 116
- The recce 116
- Insurance 117
- Shooting script 117
- Call sheets 118
- Logs 119
- Copyright 120
- 19 Editing 121
- Methods of editing 121
- Off line or on line? 123
- The edit suite 124
- Tape editing: the basics 126
- What happens in an edit? 128
- Two different types of edit 131
- How then are they different? 131
- Insert edit 132
- Assemble edit 132
- Some edits 133
- More elaborate editing 134
- A little about timecode 135
- 20 Audio post-production 137
- The plan 137
- Simple post-production 138
- More complex post-production 139
- The ideal situation 140
- 21 The future 143.
- ISBN:
- 0240515609
- OCLC:
- 41299298
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