Kategoria BISAC: Performing Arts >> Television - Direction & Production

Experienced freelance TV and theatre director turned University Lecturer, Nick Bamford offers a straightforward, no-nonsense survival guide to directing TV and video.

Aimed at students, new entrants to TV or corporate film-making or those moving up into their first directing jobs, it covers everything from pre-production to the final edit and is drawn from 25 years' experience producing and directing a huge range of TV programming from drama, through features, documentary, observational documentary and factual entertainment to reality television and corporate work.

Entirely...

From its premiere in 1999, "The Sopranos "captivated viewers with its easily relatable protagonist who has troubles at work and home, and went on to be one of the most critically successful shows in television history. By demonstrating that TV could be at once artistic and profitable, complex and engaging, edifying and entertaining, the series also redefined the prime-time drama. In this volume, author Gary R. Edgerton delves into the entire run of "The Sopranos," integrating the existing scholarly literature, while also going much further than any previous source in exploring the series'...

Completely up to date with relevant information on digital technology and HD TV, this is the only title to focus specifically on television production management, and presents an easily accessible and authoritative guide to the area.

Production Management for Television provides a reliable, factual and theoretical framework for an understanding of production management. It includes a reference directory of agencies and organizations, and addresses and contacts for training.

Subjects covered include:

- the main responsibilities of the production manager
-...

When television first became a practical reality in the 1950s, winning prizes and money quickly became a national pastime because NBC's Concentration was one of the most popular programs. As each year passed, the stakes rose higher, until the piles of cash reached unheard of proportions. Producer Norm Blumenthal worked tirelessly to raise the bar, and audience participation boiled into a nationwide obsession, but the pedestal of success wobbled on shaky ground. Frenzied winners and other unscrupulous producers were caught faking the games, and the scandal erupted in front page...

Since 2010 "curation" has become a marketing buzzword. Wrenched from its traditional home in the world of high art, everything from food to bed linens to dog toys now finds itself subject to this formerly rarified activity. Most of the time the term curation is being inaccurately used to refer to the democratization of choice - an inevitable development and side effect of the economics of long tail distribution. However, as any true curator will tell you - curation is so much more than choosing - it relies upon human intelligence, agency, evaluation and carefully considered criteria - an...