TV POST PRODUCTION

Creation of a tv program goes through four phases: development, pre-production, production, and post-production. After receiving financing, the program goes into pre-production. The producer secures the director, cinematographer, and lead actor contracts; finalizes most detail of the script; hires a production crew; ensures development of a detailed schedule that identifies timing and need for cast, costumes, equipment, and others production elements; and monitor rehearsals. The production phase is the actual filming and making of the program

Once shooting is complete, the program goes into post-production, which include in studio processes and tasks such as editing, music scoring, audiovisual synchronization, special effects, and titles. Post production finalizes content for the intended broadcasting time.

Everyone involved in a TV or video production is contributing to the program making process. They all need to know and understand how it happens. Whatever you want to end up doing, whether you are part way through a course or starting from scratch, this book gives you all the essential information you will need. It takes a practical, step-by-step approach, based on the experience of producing, writing and directing for broadcast television and the corporate sector on both video and film. It describes the roles people perform, the equipment they use and what it does. In simple, easy-to-read language it explains the grammar of shooting and editing and offers first-hand advice on treatments, scripts and budgets. As well as covering the technical aspects of both single and multi-camera production, it also looks at the editorial elements that create a successful program. With practical examples it demonstrates how best to turn ideas into reality, how to obtain successful interviews and how to put together programs that work.

Television and film use certain common conventions often referred to as the 'grammar' of these audiovisual media. This list includes some of the most important conventions for conveying meaning through particular camera and editing techniques (as well as some of the specialised vocabulary of film production).
Conventions aren't rules: expert practitioners break them for deliberate effect, which is one of the rare occasions that we become aware of what the convention is.
Camera Techniques: Distance and Angle
Long shot (LS). Shot which shows all or most of a fairly large subject (for example, a person) and usually much of the surroundings.
Establishing shot. Opening shot or sequence, frequently an exterior 'General View' as an Extreme Long Shot (ELS). Used to set the scene.
Medium shots. Medium Shot or Mid-Shot (MS). In such a shot the subject or actor and its setting occupy roughly equal areas in the frame. Close-up (CU). A picture which shows a fairly small part of the scene, such as a character's face, in great detail so that it fills the screen.