Effective TV Production, 3rd Edition

 

 

Production Treatment

Effective production techniques do not necessarily involve extensive facilities. A slow, continuous panning shot over the scene of desolation following an earthquake can convey its extent, and the sheer brooding despair, far more significantly than an elaborate intercut montage.

Back to basics

You can think of each shot as an‘information package’. Ideally, a series of shots within any sequence or scene should form a continuous thought process in an argument or a story line. Each shot in a sequence should normally develop logically from the last… unless you are aiming at a sudden dramatic or comic impact. If your audience cannot follow the linkage between shots, they are likely to be distracted, as they try to work out ...