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The Essential TV Director's Handbook
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The Essential TV Director's Handbook

by Peter Jarvis
October 2013
Beginner
224 pages
5h 36m
English
Routledge
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It's only an interview

See whether the following script seems familiar. The formula is regularly employed on any subject from an outbreak of bubonic plague to a report about tap dancing seagulls and is the trademark of all and any of the dozens of nearly identical topical news and current affairs magazine programmes that go out daily.

Newsreader in vision. Adopting grim or quizzical tone as appropriate. Feelings ran high at Cardiff Docks…
Newsreader out of vision. Random cutaway shots illustrating story. Plague victims, ambulances, musical wildfowl.
Newsreader in vision. From Cardiff Joe Hack reports.
Hack in vision. Standing next to sign saying Cardiff Docks. Wipe in name caption with programme logo Joe Hack Reporting. In Cardiff ...
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