RTA 211: Production Theory // Dana Lee
Lecture 1:
TV Team's/ Paperwork/ Sound + Audio.
TV PRODUCTION AND WHAT YOU NEED:
Single Cam (EFP) Production: Electronic Field Production
How it works and what you need:
- Director, Prod Assistant, Camera, Audio, Talent
- Requires multiple setups to be chosen during the planning process
- Actors say lines multiple times for each take to ensure cohesion between cuts
Multi-Cam Productions:
How it works and what you need:
- Control Room: Director, Script Assistant, Switcher, Video Record/Playback Operator
- Floor: Camera, Floor Director, Lighting Director
- Audio/Ancillary: Audio Lead, Digital Disk Recorder, Character Generator
- All cameras are active so director can choose any camera to bring that camera live to air
Paperwork
What you need:
- Title Page
- Synopsis
- Treatment: Camera shots, lighting, music
- Call Sheet
- Breakdown Sheet
- Blocked Script or Master Scene Script
- Storyboards
- Shot lists, setup lists, camera cards
- Audio and Floor plans/Lighting plots
AUDIO AND SOUND:
Frequency, Loudness and Wavelength
Pitch = Frequency:
- Frequency is measured in cycles per second → how many cycles of compression and
expansion are there each second?
Hertz:
- First to demonstrate existence of electromagnetic radiation by building an apparatus to
produce radio waves → cycles per second = Hz
Lecture 1:
TV Team's/ Paperwork/ Sound + Audio.
TV PRODUCTION AND WHAT YOU NEED:
Single Cam (EFP) Production: Electronic Field Production
How it works and what you need:
- Director, Prod Assistant, Camera, Audio, Talent
- Requires multiple setups to be chosen during the planning process
- Actors say lines multiple times for each take to ensure cohesion between cuts
Multi-Cam Productions:
How it works and what you need:
- Control Room: Director, Script Assistant, Switcher, Video Record/Playback Operator
- Floor: Camera, Floor Director, Lighting Director
- Audio/Ancillary: Audio Lead, Digital Disk Recorder, Character Generator
- All cameras are active so director can choose any camera to bring that camera live to air
Paperwork
What you need:
- Title Page
- Synopsis
- Treatment: Camera shots, lighting, music
- Call Sheet
- Breakdown Sheet
- Blocked Script or Master Scene Script
- Storyboards
- Shot lists, setup lists, camera cards
- Audio and Floor plans/Lighting plots
AUDIO AND SOUND:
Frequency, Loudness and Wavelength
Pitch = Frequency:
- Frequency is measured in cycles per second → how many cycles of compression and
expansion are there each second?
Hertz:
- First to demonstrate existence of electromagnetic radiation by building an apparatus to
produce radio waves → cycles per second = Hz
