Contemporary Television Production Techniques

Author: Shi Changshun
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: In today's ever-evolving television landscape, grasping the progress of contemporary television practice can be challenging. This book serves as an ideal textbook for such purposes. It consists of 12 chapters, divided into three levels. The first part focuses on the fundamental practices of television production, including reporting, writing, editing, and reviewing. The middle part emphasizes the study of current popular reporting formats, program types, and communication methods in the television industry, with dedicated chapters providing in-depth explanations of television investigative reporting, television talk shows, and television live broadcasts. The final part addresses more macro-level television operations, such as program innovation, channel specialization, and the techniques of television program scheduling, which are thoroughly elaborated in the last four chapters.
This book's innovation lies in four aspects. First, it fundamentally reforms the traditional structure of television reporting, writing, editing, and reviewing, integrating them horizontally. Second, it incorporates the practices of television news, television special features, and television arts into the discussion, providing comprehensive coverage. Third, it integrates the most dynamic program formats and new concepts in contemporary television operations, ensuring the forward-looking nature of the research. Fourth, it adopts a case study approach, combining theory with practice to enhance practicality.
This book is suitable for undergraduate teaching in radio and television studies at universities and holds significant guiding value for television professionals.