Television Production Direction

Practice TV Directing Script -- Good to the Last Drop

TriCaster 860 MultiView map - August, 2018

Preview and Program need to be adjacent, but they need not be large.
The "DDR's" and ME's are together because they are "high traffic" sources. Alternatively, they could be in a row above the Preview and Program monitors, thus putting the camera row immediately below. This scenario would minimize the eye deflection both from the DDRs and MEs and from the cameras and CGs. The director could look directly at any of these sources and simultaneously see Preview and Program through peripheral vision.
The cameras are together, 1-3, next to the two channels of CG. A 4th or 5th camera can be added elsewhere. These are in the row below the servers and ME's because they too are high traffic sources. Arguably, they -- and all other "active" sources -- should be in the bottom row to reduce the angle of elevation of a director's eyes.
Remotes and utility sources are in the bottom row; again, they could be moved higher in the stack to position active sources more effectively for the director.

Assignments - Fall, 2018

2. Live Directing Exercise - memorize stock calls ASAP

1. What lines dominate: horizontals and verticals, or diagonals?

2. How is the z-axis populated: fore-, middle- and background?

3. How does light level fall off behind the arc of focus?

4. How does chroma fall off behind the arc of focus?

5. How does focus fall off behind the arc of focus?

6. What is the effect of putting the host in the center?

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Telling a story through powerful visuals becomes your stock in trade as a director.
The screen is two dimentional. So how do visual communicators, whether photographers, painters, designers, cartoonists, or TV directors, manipulate compositions to create the illusion of a third dimension?
That third dimension is the Z-AXIS.