Book description
Television is a demanding industry and at the centre of the creative
process is the pivotal role of the director. Do you have the right
skills to make quality programmes that resonate with audiences?
Directing Television offers you a contemporary survival guide. TV
directors need a sense of vision, effective management of cast and crew,
mentoring and problem solving skills and most importantly the ability to
tell a visual story. See inside the everyday realtivies of TV programme
making with this essential guide, written by a Nick Bamford a freelancer
director and media trainer with over 25 years of experience of making
every type of genre from studio work to outside broadcast. Directing
Television offers contemporary skiils in each process from
pre-production, development, casting, contributors, locations, programme
structure, equipment, call sheets, scripting drama, planning the shoot,
the importance of screen grammar and camera basics, through to the final
edit. It covers a range of programme styles: factual and reality TV,
drama, observational docs, comedy and specialist programmes as well as
case studies and 'war stories' from real TV experience. Benefit from
professional advice and develop your creative directing skills today!
Nick Bamford is Senior Lecturer in TV Production at Bournemouth Media
School. He is now a freelance director/producer/writer with over 20
years experience of location work, studio and O. B. in everything from
drama, through to documentaries, features and corporate work. He has
worked for the BBC, Channel 4, RDF, Endemol, Talkback Thames and Mosaic
Films and runs short courses for new directors.
