Chabot College
Fall 2003
Course Outline for Mass Communications 33B
INTERMEDIATE TELEVISION STUDIO TECHNIQUES
Catalog Description:
33B - Intermediate Television Studio Techniques
(May be repeated 3 times)
3 units
Further experience in television studio operations, control room procedures, and program production.
Designed to improve skills in operating television equipment, and producing and directing TV programs.
Strongly recommended: Mass Communications 33A. 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. identify the components of a television system and the operation of a television production and
broadcast studio;
2. operate all types of standard field television studio and control room equipment, including audio and
video devices, cameras and camera control units, editing control unit, graphics character generator,
internet searches, lighting, microphones, photo editing software, still store toaster, TelePrompTer,
and websites;
3. exercise safe and appropriate handling, maintaining, and storing of all types of studio and field
equipment;
4. identify and be able to perform specific jobs in a television studio production, including the
management leadership and operational hierarchy;
5. define educational telecommunications as related to cable and closed-circuit transmission.
Course Content:
1. Explanation of television studio operational procedures
2. Actual hands-on work with audio and video devices, cameras and camera control units, editing
control unit, graphics character generator, internet searches, lighting, microphones, photo editing
software, still store toaster, TelePrompTer, and websites
3. Provide a growth experience in all phases of television production management and leadership
based upon the student's interest and abilities
4. Execute a production from start to finish that creates a finished airable product
Methods of Presentation:
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Lectures
Demonstrations
Discussions
Video tapes
TV lab productions
Chabot College
Course Outline for Mass Communications 33B, Page 2
Fall 2003
Assignments and Methods of Evaluating Student Progress:
1. Typical Assignments
a. Schedule production(s) as specified by the instructor
b. Write a treatment for a show, including an intro, outro, tosses and teases, and questions
c. Select and oversee a production crew
d. Perform specific production personnel positions as detailed by the instructor
e. Create Chyron (C.G.) graphics for a TV production
f. Create an airable show
2. Methods of Evaluating Student Progress
a. Objective examinations
b. Participation in two productions
c. Production of a pre-approved production resulting in a program suitable for cable or closedcircuit transmission
d. Completion of the laboratory objectives sheet
e. Final exam
Textbook (Typical):
TV Production Disciplines & Techniques, by Burrows, Wood & Gross, William Brown Pub., 1998
Special Student Material:
None
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