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Drawing from Herbert Zettl's vast expertise as an Emmy award–winning producer, director, and innovator, VIDEO BASICS, 8th Edition, delivers the most authoritative, current, and technically accurate student guide to video production available. Meeting the need for a briefer book than the more comprehensive TELEVISION PRODUCTION HANDBOOK, the eighth edition of VIDEO BASICS presents thorough yet streamlined video instruction that can be covered in a single semester. It moves students from video concepts and processes to production tools and techniques, and, ultimately, the production environment (studio and field, indoors and out) and its effects. A more conceptual framework leads students from the idea (what to create) to the image (how to create) on video. In addition, the accompanying MindTap Radio, Television & Film provides an interactive digital experience to help students ensure their course success.
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Drawing from Herbert Zettl's vast expertise as an Emmy award–winning producer, director, and innovator, VIDEO BASICS, 8th Edition, delivers the most authoritative, current, and technically accurate student guide to video production available. Meeting the need for a briefer book than the more comprehensive TELEVISION PRODUCTION HANDBOOK, the eighth edition of VIDEO BASICS presents thorough yet streamlined video instruction that can be covered in a single semester. It moves students from video concepts and processes to production tools and techniques, and, ultimately, the production environment (studio and field, indoors and out) and its effects. A more conceptual framework leads students from the idea (what to create) to the image (how to create) on video. In addition, the accompanying MindTap Radio, Television & Film provides an interactive digital experience to help students ensure their course success.
Drawing from his vast expertise as an Emmy award–winning producer, director, and innovator in the field of television and video production, Professor Zettl brings students the most technically accurate, current, and authoritative text for the video or television production course.
Acknowledging that digital video is now an established medium, VIDEO BASICS, 8e, only includes references to analog to help explain the digital process or the analog equipment that is still in use.
To explain some of the often-puzzling terminology of digital television (DTV) and the various scanning systems, chapter 3, Image Formation and Digital Video, explores the major differences between the scanning, sampling, and compression standards of digital television and high-definition television (HDTV).
The text's unique production model helps students clarify early on the nature and basic purpose of their productions.
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Part I. Production: Processes and People
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