Studio and Field TV ProductionCourse code: 162107 | 6 ECTS credits
Basic information
Level of Studies:Undergraduate applied studies
Year of Study:3
Semester:5
Requirements:Knowing basic concepts of analog and digital image and television signals.
Goal:Learning about the process of studio and field TV production and technologies and devices used in it.
Outcome:Training for a job of an TV studio engineer, as well as working with devices used in studio and field TV production.
Contents of the course
Theoretical instruction:
Introductory lecture. Technologies used in studio and field TV production.
Media for storing video materials (video servers, tapes, discs).
Recording and playback of video signals in different formats (SD, HD, UHD).
TV studio. Scenography. Screenplay.
Light sources and lighting systems (halogen, sRGB and LED).
Television cameras. Video mixers and video effects. Electronic graphics in television.
Technical realization of different TV forms.
Shooting an object in a studio with a blue or green screen (chroma key).
Post-production image processing with special effects.
Shooting with two or more cameras in aTV system using various effects on a video mixer.
OB vans in SD and HD format. Analysis of terrain for shooting and live transmissions.
Live transmission simulation - shooting with 3 TV cameras using digital effects on a video mixer, text and graphics files from a computer and telephone hybrid on an audio mixer.
Linear and non-linear editing. Timecode. Computer editing (Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Adobe AfterEffects, etc).
Software correction of the technical quality of audio and video content. Computer broadcasting of the SD, HD, UHD television program using the Playbox software.
Subtitling and over-dubbing of film and video material.
Practical exercises follow lectures throughout the realization of specific tasks in a digital multimedia HD television studio. Practical exercises are carried out according to the laboratory practice manual. Students, during a semester, divided into groups produce a specific mini project in a multimedia HD TV studio.
Textbooks and References
G. Lekakos, K. Chorianopoulos and G. Doukidis „ Interactive digital television, technologies and applications“, 2008.
R. Musburger “Single-Camera Video Production“ Focal Press, 2010.
O. Grau, T. Pullen, and G. A. Thomas “A combined studio production system for 3-d capturing of live action and immersive actor feedback” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2004.
