Die Inszenierung des Verdachts - Überlegungen zu den Funktionen von TV-mockumentaries.
by Carolin Lano
Wendy Walker is one of those invisible forces who has shaped our perception of the world. For the past seventeen years she has been the 'woman behind the man', at Larry King Live. As Larry's Senior Executive Producer she has been responsible for landing the exclusive interviews with the most important newsmakers and well-known celebrities from around the globe that have been the hallmark of CNN's number 1 show. While she may have been unseen and unrecognized, Wendy's work has shaped all of our l...
Handbook of TV Quality Assessment
by Antonio Santangelo and Giuseppe Tipaldo
NEW STORIES. UNSEEN PHOTOS. SHINY. We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty.A" Since its short-lived appearance on TV in 2002, Joss Whedon's Firefly has indeed done the impossible. It's sold over a half a million copies on DVD, spawned the hit movie Serenity, and most remarkably, inspired a loyal fan following - the Browncoats - whose numbers are still growing to this day. Still Flying is a brand new celebration of all aspects of the show, featuring a wealth of rare and previously u...
This book is an unvarnished look at how to originate, pitch, sell, and produce factual television programming for global broadcast television networks and streaming services. Grounded in firsthand experience, this essential "how to guide" walks readers through the crucial steps in the factual television process while unpacking valuable insights to successfully producing and delivering projects on time and on budget. With over 20 years of experience in the TV documentary arena, Executive Produc...
8 September 2016 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the debut of the world's most successful science fiction television series: Star Trek. In this new biography Lance Parkin, author of Aurum's acclaimed Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore, will go in search of the show's creator, Gene Roddenberry. This book will reveal how an undistinguished writer of cop shows set out to produce 'Hornblower in space' and ended up with an optimistic, almost utopian view of humanity's future that...
BEFORE THEY WERE GUILTY, THEY WERE RUTHLESS... Read the bestselling first instalment in the Falcon Bay novels! Now with an exclusive preview chapter of the brand new book, Guilty Women 'The new Queen of the blockbuster' The Times 'Glitz, glamour and ambition... Perfect' Woman & Home 'Sexy, shocking and utterly unputdownable' Daily Express AMBITION CAN BE DEADLY On a beautiful private island off the coast of the UK, the cast and crew of glamorous TV show Falcon Bay are at breaking point....
The BBC Visual Effects Department closed its doors in 2003. For almost fifty years it had been responsible for some of television's most iconic images - from exploding newsreaders on Monty Python's Flying Circus to Blake's 7's majestic Liberator sailing through outer space; from the Queen Vic being engulfed in flames in Eastenders to severed heads dripping blood in The Borgias. Using interviews with the effects designers themselves, together with hundreds of concept drawings, production photogra...
The World at War is the most successful history series ever produced by British television. TV producer and writer Taylor Downing explores the style, ethos, television context and impact of the programme, in a study that includes interviews with the producer, Jeremy Isaacs, and original research gathered from archives.
For various TV production courses such as Educational TV, Instructional TV, Video Production, Desktop Video Production, Industrial Video Production, Video and Multimedia Production. The “lite” version of Utz's popular Today's Video, 3/E (PH), this hands-on introduction to television production is oriented to the skills required in the real world of video and assumes no prior background whatsoever. Moving gradually from the simple to the complex, it covers the entire spectrum of TV production sk...
This story of Jim Henson, his childhood, early career and the later development of cartoon characters for commercials and television includes sketches and drawings of many of the characters who later became Muppets.
The groundbreaking casting of Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura in 1966 took women and people of color into a newly imagined future. But it was the 1960s and she had to do it in a miniskirt. Since then, each Star Trek show has both reflected the values of its time and imagined a future in which all genders were equal. In her first book, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine star Nana Visitor sets out to discover both how Star Trek led the way for women, and how it was trapped in its own era. For Visito...
Navigating the necessary skills for shooting fiction film or TV is a challenge for any filmmaker. This book demystifies the art and craft of “coverage”—explaining where to put the camera to shoot any kind of scene. Author Mark Rosman takes readers step by step through the basics such as scene analysis, blocking actors, composition, shot listing, storyboarding, and screen direction to the more advanced, including how to shoot fights, car chases, and visual effects scenes. Rosman draws on his ext...
Lighting for Cinematography (The CineTech Guides to the Film Crafts)
by David Landau
We can't shoot good pictures without good lighting, no matter how good the newest cameras are. Shooting under available light gives exposure, but lacks depth, contrast, contour, atmosphere and often separation. The story could be the greatest in the world, but if the lighting is poor viewers will assume it's amateurish and not take it seriously. Feature films and TV shows, commercials and industrial videos, reality TV and documentaries, even event and wedding videos tell stories. Good lighting c...
This book discusses the figure of Woman in Lars von Trier’s distinctive cinematic productions from 1996 to 2014. It takes the notorious legacy of violence against women in von Trier’s cinema beyond the perceived gender division, elevating the director’s image above being a mere provocateur. By raising fundamental questions about woman, sexuality, and desire, Elbeshlawy shows that Trier’s cinematic Woman is an attempt at creating an image of a genderless subject that is not inhibited by the confi...
A European Television Fiction Renaissance (Routledge Advances in Television Studies)
This book maps the landscape of contemporary European premium television fiction, offering a detailed overview of both the changes in the digital production and distribution and the emergence of specific national and transnational case histories. Combining a media-production approach with a textual and audience analysis, the volume offers a complex, stratified, systemic view of ongoing aesthetic, sociocultural and industrial developments in contemporary European TV. With contributions from lea...