Producing for TV and Video

Contents

Preface

Introduction

PART I

1  What Does a TV Producer Really Do?

I. The TV Producer’s Domain

II. Defining a TV Producer

A. Who Makes a Good Producer?

III. The TV Producer’s Roles

A. The Five Stages of TV Production

B. Why Become a Television Producer?

C. Creativity, Clout, and Control

D. Control: Business Skills

IV. Titles and Job Descriptions of TV Producers

A. Producers’ Titles

V. The Need for People Skills

VI. Summary

VII. Chapter Review Questions

2  TV: Past, Present — and Future

I. Television Is a Unique Medium

II. How TV Works

III. The Impact of Human Vision on TV

IV. The Creators of Television

V. Television’s Evolution

A. Early Television and Commerce

VI. Television’s Transitions — From the 1920s to the Present

A. Mechanical ...