Effective TV Production, 3rd Edition

 

 

Production Approaches

Directors vary in the ways they tackle their productions.

Unplanned production

Those who can’t visualize action and shots unless it’s all happening in front of them tend to avoid the commitment of planning as far as possible. During rehearsal, they arrange action, then choose shots (often promoted by the camera crew), which they intercut and blend into a free-flowing presentation. Results can vary from exciting, dynamic spontaneity… to bewildering chaos.

For some kinds of production (e.g. documentaries), there is a temptation to shoot any promising material, which is later selected and arranged into a coherent program, while ‘junking’ all unwanted sequences. With luck, the result is a fresh uninhibited approach. At ...