This document provides an overview of video production, including different types of productions, the production process, the history of video technology, and aspects of employment in the video industry. It discusses studio and field productions, the stages of production including transduction, channeling, selecting/altering, monitoring, and recording/playback. It also covers the transition to digital technologies, formats such as high-definition TV, and portable video equipment. Finally, it discusses work patterns in broadcast and non-broadcast video fields and the importance of developing professional attitudes and teamwork skills for employment in the industry.

1. Chapter 1

2. Do your duty and a little bit
more, and the future will take
care of itself.
Andrew Carnegie

3. I. Types of Productions
A. Studio Production
1. The studio
2. The control room
3. Other studio-related
spaces

4. 4. Makeshift studios
B. Field Production
1. Remote production
a. Electronic news
gathering (ENG)*
b. Electronic field
production (EFP)*

5. II. The Production Path
A. Transducing
B. Channeling
C. Selecting and Altering
D. Monitoring
E. Recording and Playing Back

6. III. Convergence And The
Digital Age
A. Differences Between
Analog and Digital
1. Binary code
2. Scanning process*
a. field
b. frame

7. B. High-Definition Television
1. Aspect ratio
2. Interlace vs. progressive
scanning*
3. 480p, 720p, 1080i*
C. Convergence

8. IV. A Short History Of Video
Production
A. Early Television
B. Uses of Film and Live Camera
1. Telecine*
2. Kinescope

9. 3. Multicamera Production
i. live-on-tape production
ii. postproduction editing
4. Single-camera production
C. The Impact of Recording and
Edited Video (Quadraplex*)

10. D. Portable Video Equipment
1. U-matic
2. Betacam/MII*
3. DVCAM/DVCPro*
4. SD Cards*

11. E. Computer-Based
Technologies
1. Linear editing
2. Nonlinear editing

12. V. Aspects Of Employment
In The Video Industry
A. Work Patterns
1. Broadcast categories*
a. network level*
i. over-the-air networks*
ii. cable networks*
b. station level*

13. c. Production houses
i. daily hire
ii. freelance employment
2. Types of Jobs (Nonbroadcast
Telecommunications*)
a. corporate video (industrial
television*)

14. b. government media
c. medical field
d. religious productions
e. educational facilities*
3. Small-format video*
a. event video*
b. interactive video

15. B. Employment Preparation
C. Disciplines and Techniques
1. Techniques
2 Disciplines
a. development of a
professional attitude*
i. dependability*
ii. respect*

16. b. attitudes and self-image*
i. personal goals*
ii. self-esteem*
iii. anxieties*

17. c. competition and team
functioning*
i. team effort*
ii. respect*

19. Success is the marriage
of motivation and will.
Anonymous

21. There are no shortcuts
to achieving worthwhile
dreams.
Anonymous