TV Production I Final Exam Review Open Note Test- Bring your folder to the exam. You can use worksheets, old test, etc… Keys to success- Organize notes by unit prior to exam Bring Materials to keep yourself busy until after the exam Everyone stays in the room for the entire 2 hours Unless signed excuse from the office

1st Semester Review UNITS: RADIO & TV HISTORY CAMERA – STUDIO CAMERA LENS FEATURES CAMCORDER FORMATS TRIPODS PICTURE COMPOSITION RECORDING TECHNOLOGY – ANALOG-DIGITAL DVD, HDTV UHTV/4K EDITING-MOVIEMAKER SOFTWARE

History Unit- 3 sets of slides and an exam

History Unit Main Ideas- Commercial driven programming model used for radio drives all new media including television. Broadcasting is a regulated monopoly business model. Broadcasters use public airwaves in exchange for giving public access to use them. Invention of Television was expensive and took many turns to becoming commercial viable in the 1950’s. Commercials pay for programs we watch. High viewer numbers drive programs. Successful ideas from the past are often recycled.

Camera Unit - Studio Camera and Camcorders CCD White Balance Talley Light Gain Iris Zoom Focus Tilt Pan Fluid Tripod Head Depth of Field Camcorder formats

Picture Composition

Picture Composition Main Ideas Know the basic camera shots Composition- placement of objects in the frame to tell a story. We tell stories with pictures. Cinema is a visual art form- study painting Classic Hollywood Style- shots and editing so smoothly combined audience has an illusion of one continuous moment. Great Directors work can be studied and ideas reused.

DVD HDTV 4K -8K TERMS: DVD HDTV 4K- 8k PIXEL RESOLUTION NTSC, PAL, SECAM DIGITAL –ANALOG SOURCES: Digital TV Crash Course How HDTV works How DVD works The Pixar Story

Main Ideas Analog=magnetic recording, wave forms. Using tape Digital- Computer based, pixels (Digitizing-converting Analog) How DVD’s record –Spiral, compression (interframe,Prediction) +R –R, double density HDTV Resolution 720P 1080p Enhanced Features Smart TV LCD LED Plasma

DIGITAL EDITING Our Software is MovieMaker Live freeware Know how to digitize a Clip Difference between :C drive and :U drive at school Saving Project Saving final project as a Movie Editing skills and an understanding of Picture Composition lead directly to interesting videos.