Chabot College
Fall 2002
Course Outline for Mass Communications 33A
INTRODUCTION TO TELEVISION STUDIO TECHNIQUES
Catalog Description:
33A - Introduction to Television Studio Techniques
3 units
Introduction to studio practices. Hands-on experience in television studio operations, control room
procedures, and basic program production. 2 hours lecture, 3 hours laboratory.
[Typical contact hours: lecture 35, laboratory 52.5]
Prerequisite Skills:
None
Expected outcomes for students:
Upon completion of the course the student should be able to:
1. demonstrate understanding of the components of a television system and the operation of a
television production and broadcast studio;
2. operate all types of standard television studio and control room equipment, including recording and
play back of both audio and video devices;
3. exercise safe and appropriate handling, maintaining, and storing of all types of studio equipment;
4. identify who does what under a specific job title in a television studio production, including the
management and operation hierarchy;
5. demonstrate understanding of educational telecommunications as related to cable and closed-circuit
transmission.
Course Content:
1. Television studio operational procedures, educational closed-circuit programming and transmission
2. Hands-on work with portable and studio television cameras, video and audio switching, special effects,
separate formats of video tape recorders, basic C.G. graphics, lighting techniques, teleprompter
3. TV studio production including job assignments in all phases of television production based upon the
student's interest and abilities
Methods of Presentation:
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Lectures
Demonstrations
Discussions
Video tapes of the ever-changing information of production technologies
TV lab productions
Assignments and Methods of Evaluating Student Progress:
1. Typical Assignments
a. Write a paper on the proper care of a TV camera, production equipment, and studio rules and procedures
b. Perform specific production personnel positions as detailed by the instructor
c. Draw a three point, triangle TV studio lighting diagram
d. Create Chyron (C.G.) graphics for a TV production
e. Identify all studio equipment by their proper names and model numbers
2. Methods of Evaluating Student Progress
Chabot College
Course Outline for Mass Communications 33A
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Fall 2002
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Objective and subjective examinations
Participation in productions
Completion of the appropriate laboratory objectives with each task signed off
Final exam
Textbook (Typical):
TV Production Disciplines & Techniques, by Burrows, Wood & Gross, William Brown Pub., 1998
Special Student Material:
None
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