Factual Television Producing

Author : Dylan Weiss
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000807424

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Factual Television Producing by Dylan Weiss Pdf

This book is an unvarnished look at how to originate, pitch, sell, and produce factual television programming for global broadcast television networks and streaming services. Grounded in firsthand experience, this essential "how to guide" walks readers through the crucial steps in the factual television process while unpacking valuable insights to successfully producing and delivering projects on time and on budget. With over 20 years of experience in the TV documentary arena, Executive Producer Dylan Weiss shares how to break into the industry, originate your own documentary ideas, forge a path forward through the creative process, prepare your concepts for commissioners, and then pitch them to networks, broadcasters, streamers, and distributors around the world. Industry voices are layered throughout sharing their experiences from each stage of the process. These interviews include top executives from Disney, Investigation Discovery, National Geographic, and many more. This is an ideal resource for independent documentary producers looking to create and pitch their work to top television networks and streaming services.

Author : Manfred W. Becker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000202021

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Creating Reality in Factual Television by Manfred W. Becker Pdf

Creating Reality in Factual Television analyzes the uneasy interaction between economics, culture, and professional ethics in reality and documentary television storytelling. Through the "frankenbite," an editorial tool that extracts and re-orders the salient elements or single words of a statement, interview, or exchange into a revealing confession or argument, the book explores how and why editors manipulate truth in factual television. The author considers how the editing of documentary television is increasingly following reality television’s dictate to entertain instead of inform, how the "real" and the "truth" fall victim to the demand to "tell entertaining stories," and how editors must compromise their professional ethics as a result. Drawing on interviews with 75 North American and European editors that explore their experiences and opinions of reality and documentary television practices, and their views on their responsibilities and loyalties in the field, Creating Reality in Factual Television illuminates the real and potential ethical dilemmas of editorial decision making, the context in which decisions are made, and how editors themselves validate the editing choices to themselves and others. Addressing a dramatic development in contemporary media ecology – the age of "alternative facts" – this book is a useful research tool for scholars and students of documentary film, media literacy, genre studies, media ethics, affect theory, and audience perception.

Author : Nicola Lees
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408123331

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Greenlit: Developing Factual TV Ideas from Concept to Pitch by Nicola Lees Pdf

"Blows the lid on so many TV secrets" Tom Archer, Controller Factual, BBC "If every first-time producer read this before pitching a program, I guarantee a greater success rate" Gary Lico, President/CEO, CABLEready, USA In recent years there has been an explosion of broadcast and cable channels with a desperate need for original factual/reality programming to fill their schedules: -documentaries, observational series, makeover formats, reality competitions. Yet television executives receive a daily avalanche of inappropriate pitches from pushy, badly prepared producers. Only 1 in 100 proposals are considered worth a second look, and most commissioners never read past the first paragraph. Greenlit explains how to develop, research, pitch and sell your idea for any type of factual or reality television show. It gives the inside track on: * What channel executives are really looking for in a pitch, * The life stories of hit factual shows such as The Apprentice, Deadliest Catch and Strictly Come Dancing * Advice from channel commissioners, development producers and on-screen talent on both sides of the Atlantic. * Eleven steps that will increase your chance of winning a commission In a rapidly expanding TV market, Greenlit is packed with resource lists, sample proposals, case studies and exercises designed to boost your skills and develop commission-winning proposals.

Author : Norman Swallow
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781003820154

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Factual Television by Norman Swallow Pdf

Factual Television (1966) looks at the techniques and purpose of all facets of factual television – news and current affairs programmes; documentaries; reporting stories; the ethics of reporters and producers. It quotes at length from television writers, producers and television executives, to give very much an insider’s view of the arena.

Author : Jeremy Tunstall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134868179

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Television Producers by Jeremy Tunstall Pdf

Covering all the major areas of television production, this in-depth work highlights the widely varying influences, difficulties and opportunities at work in the industry. Each kind of producer across the seven areas here examined faces the same practical issues of budget, talent and equipment resources, and end-product expectations; however, the self-image of the producers and the creative environment in which they work can differ greatly from one programming sector to the next, and whilst their careers may run parallel they are usually cut off from one another ideologically. Based on interviews from over two hundred and fifty producers working across a selection of British television channels as well as producers of a number of high-profile American shows, this book takes in a panoramic view of production models at work today and concludes with some insightful suggestions for the future.

Author : Truman Locke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350113251

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Some Things You Should Know by Truman Locke Pdf

Truman Locke is a television executive. His job - to seek out extraordinary people and stories to put on TV - gives him a licence for adventure; freedom to go almost anywhere and do almost anything, so long as he's successful. But now, things are going wrong. Under mounting pressure, his manoeuvring and risk taking start to slip out of control, bringing trouble and danger to his ordered world, jeopardizing everything. In Some Things You Should Know, this talented but flawed anti-hero tells his own story - one of lies, crime and complex relationships. It's a page-turning thriller, inspired by the realities of life in a glamorous but treacherous industry, exposing them in a way no book ever has before. Truman's experiences show what it's like to work at TV's cutting edge: what motivates TV producers, how they think and behave, and what it takes to succeed in a cut-throat creative business.

Author : Annette Hill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134181131

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Restyling Factual TV by Annette Hill Pdf

Addressing the wide range of programmes and formats from news, to documentary, to popular factual genres, Annette Hill’s new book examines the ways viewers navigate their way through a busy, noisy and constantly changing factual television environment. Restyling Factual TV addresses the wide range of programmes that fall within the category of 'factuality', from politics, to natural history, to reality entertainment. Based on research with audiences of factual TV, primarily in Sweden and the UK, but with reference to other countries such as the US, this book tackles issues such as legitimacy, ethics and value in contemporary news and current affairs, documentary and reality programming. Drawing on the ethics of truth-telling and notions of quality, this wide-ranging, authoritative book expands the debate on popular factual entertainment and will be a welcome addition to the current literature.

Author : Leslie Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134096084

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Production Management for Television by Leslie Mitchell Pdf

Production Management for Television is written for those who wish to learn about producing television programmes and the role of the production manager. Featuring relevant information on digital technology and HD TV, this presents an easily accessible and authoritative guide to the area.

Author : Miranda Banks,Bridget Conor,Vicki Mayer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317567110

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Production Studies, The Sequel! by Miranda Banks,Bridget Conor,Vicki Mayer Pdf

Production Studies, The Sequel! is an exciting exploration of the experiences of media workers in local, global, and digital communities—from prop-masters in Germany, Chinese film auteurs, producers of children’s television in Qatar, Italian radio broadcasters, filmmakers in Ethiopia and Nigeria, to seemingly-autonomous Twitterbots. Case studies examine international production cultures across five continents and incorporate a range of media, including film, television, music, social media, promotional media, video games, publishing and public broadcasting. Using the lens of cultural studies to examine media production, Production Studies, The Sequel! takes into account transnational production flows and places production studies in conversation with other major areas of media scholarship including audience studies, media industries, and media history. A follow-up to the successful Production Studies, this collection highlights new and important research in the field, and promises to generate continued discussion about the past, present, and future of production studies.

Author : Anita Biressi,Heather Nunn
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 1904764045

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Reality TV by Anita Biressi,Heather Nunn Pdf

"Through detailed case studies this book breaks new ground by linking together two major themes: the production of realism and its relationship to revelation. It addresses 'truth telling', confession and the production of knowledges about the self and its place in the world".--BOOKJACKET.

Author : Michael O'Donoghue
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135103613

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Producing Video For Teaching and Learning by Michael O'Donoghue Pdf

Producing Video for Teaching and Learning: Planning and Collaboration provides lecturers, researchers, professors, and technical staff in educational settings with a framework for producing video resources for teaching and learning purposes. This highly useful guide brings together the literature from the field into a constructive, developmental framework, prompting users to reflect on their own ideas at each stage of the production process. O’Donoghue makes clear distinctions between related aspects of video production, and offers working definitions where appropriate in order to address the academic and tertiary support technical audience. Interviews with established professionals in the field illustrate the possibilities—and limitations—of video for teaching and learning. Producing Video for Teaching and Learning gives readers the power to enhance the learning capacity of their own video materials.

Author : Jeremy Tunstall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134868186

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Television Producers by Jeremy Tunstall Pdf

This book is a result of over 250 interviews with producers which will not only provide academic interest but invaluable information to job applicants in the area Includes a discussion of the position of women as producers and the Birt revolution which will make it newsworthy and controversial Author has good media contacts he has already had work published by the Independent and Guardian Author is well known in media studies

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Communications
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Television
ISBN : UCAL:B5176572

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Competition in Television Production Act by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Communications Pdf

Author : Tony Stark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351251440

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The Insiders' Guide to Factual Filmmaking by Tony Stark Pdf

The Insiders’ Guide to Factual Filmmaking is an accessible and comprehensive ‘how to’ guide about the craft of making documentaries for TV, online or social media. Filmmaker Tony Stark distils a long career at the BBC and as an independent producer to explain the conceptual, visual, editorial and organisational skills needed to make impactful and stylish factual films. Interviews with top industry professionals in the UK and US - commissioners, executive producers, filmmakers, strand editors and media lawyers – add valuable insight and authority to this book. For more experienced filmmakers The Insiders’ Guide tells you how to get the green light for undercover investigations, how to tell film stories online and on social media, and how to budget a factual film. This is a key text for anyone who wants to succeed in the rapidly changing, competitive freelance markets in Britain and America. It provides expert guidance to students on filmmaking courses, journalists wanting to move from print to video and non-professionals with an interest in film-making. Whatever the final destination of your film – and whatever the budget - The Insiders’ Guide provides a vital roadmap. The book’s accompanying website is a ‘show-me’ resource for new directors: with 24 specially-shot film clips illustrating the key rules of filmic grammar and sequence shooting – together with downloadable versions of essential production forms.

Author : Leslie Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134096077

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Production Management for Television by Leslie Mitchell Pdf

Completely up to date with relevant information on digital technology and HD TV, this is the only title to focus specifically on television production management, and presents an easily accessible and authoritative guide to the area. Production Management for Television provides a reliable, factual and theoretical framework for an understanding of production management. It includes a reference directory of agencies and organizations, and addresses and contacts for training. Subjects covered include: • the main responsibilities of the production manager • key skills needed by the production manager • routine procedures • appropriate paperwork and record keeping • health and safety issues • rights management • career structure and development for production managers • useful references and further information. The book is supported by a companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415424813.