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

Discover vital insider tips on producing movies with a micro budget

Covering both tried and true filmmaking techniques as well as insight on marketing, selling, and distributing your film,　Raindance Producers' Lab, Second Edition　is the ultimate independent filmmaker's guide to producing movies. This edition has been updated to include:

• Fresh features on low-budget, high quality video cameras, including new digital camera options such as DSLR
• An extensive selection of new case studies and interviews with industry talents such as...

Since 1948 when television began its rapid--almost exponential--growth, America has literally focused on TV, but the average viewer has been unaware of the key behind-the-scenes role of the TV director. In "Take One," Jack Kuney shows what the director does in his equipment-filled twilight zone--the TV control room. The author identifies the crucial aesthetic contribution of the director who in selecting shots determines not only what millions of viewers will see but also how closely they will see them and in what sequence. More important, Kuney's interviews affirm that generally the...

Sports now constitute one of the most valuable forms of broadcast entertainment in today's lucrative international market. This textbook explains the economics underlying the sports broadcasting phenomenon.

The specific regulatory culture governing sports broadcasting means that the financial economy of this area has many unique features. The Economics of Sports Broadcasting provides an accessible, detailed introduction to all aspects of economics in this fascinating area.

The book contains a wealth of textbook features and has been written and designed to...

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'...

"Blows the lid on so many TV secrets" Tom Archer, Controller Factual, BBC
"If every first-time producer read this before pitching a program, I guarantee a greater success rate" Gary Lico, President/CEO, CABLEready, USA

In recent years there has been an explosion of broadcast and cable channels with a desperate need for original factual/reality programming to fill their schedules: documentaries, observational series, makeover formats, reality competitions. Yet television executives receive a daily avalanche of inappropriate pitches from pushy, badly prepared...

Based on his popular international C.O.N.F.L.I.C.T. seminars, television producer Robert Thirkell provides a professional toolkit for creating compelling storylines for factual or reality-based film and television.

The book features program examples from the UK and U.S. and includes well-known series such as Kitchen Nightmares, Wife Swap, The Apprentice, Undercover Boss and Oprah's Big Give, plus advice from leading filmmakers and TV producers on the process of finding stories and characters, structuring scripts, filming, editing, delivery, and...

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...