Cue & Cut A Practical Approach to Working in Multi-camera Studios

Cue & Cutis a practical approach to working in television studios for anyone who might want to work in that medium. It's full of useful information about kit, and how you would use it to create multi-camera content. Written by a multi-camera producer-director with years of drama and teaching experience, it presents both a way of handling studios and a source of information about how things have changed from the days of monochrome to HD tapeless modes -- with some thoughts on 3D HDTV. The book is firmly based in first-hand teaching experience and experience of producing, direction, floor managing (and so on) and on working with top flight Actors, Writers, Musicians, Designers of all disciplines and sound and camera crews, both at the BBC and in ITV. The book covers multi-camera aspects of many levels of courses and should be useful to those on short courses, whether undergraduate or graduate.

Roger Singleton-Turner is a prize-winning experienced freelance Producer-Director of single and multi-camera television programs. He has taught television production techniques at the BBC and in a number of educational establishments in the UK (and Thailand) and completed this book while an Academic Tutor and Module Leader at the University of Sunderland.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS * CONTRIBUTORS * PREFACE * ACKNOWLEDGMENTS * INTRODUCTION * PART I: SAFETY & GOOD PRACTICE * PART II: INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDIO * BASICS WORKING WITH CAMERAS * LENSES AND SHOOTING CONVENTION * THE STUDIO PRODUCTION A* TECHNICAL JOBS IN THE STU * DIO DESIGN AND SETS * THE JOB OF SCRIPT SUPERVISOR AND MULTI-CAMERA PAPERWOR * CAMERA SCRIPTS, CAMERA CARDS ETC. AND CREATING THEM IN MS WORD (with a note on Autocue) * IN THE STUDIO - COMMUNICAON * LIGHTING FOR VIDEO CAMERAS - AN INTRODUCTION * MICROPHONES & SOUND * PART III: CONTENT * INTERVIEWS, DISCUSSION AND CHAT * DEMONSTRATIONS AND MOVEMENT * HAVING IDEAS * PART IV: APPLYING THE PRINCIPLES * INTRODUCTION * GETTING IT ALL TOGETHER * DRAMA * MUSIC * SHOOTING ACTION * AFTERWORD * APPENDIX I: ASPECT RATIOS * HISTORY * OTHER FORMATS * SUMMARY * APPENDIX II: CONTINUITY - A SUMMARY * VIDEOGRAPHY * BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES * SUGGESTED FURTHER READING * INDEX