1. An Overview of Television Production
2. The People Who Make It Happen
3. The Television Production Facility
4. The Production Process
5. The Script and Production Plan
6. What the Camera Can Do
7. Using the Camera
8. Visual Storytelling
9. Television Graphics
10. Lighting for Television
11. Backgrounds and Sets
12. Makeup and Costumes
13. Audio for Television
14. Recording the Story
15. Editing the Production
16. Production Practices
17. The Studio Production
18. Directing Talent
19. Production Style
20. Remote Production
21. Distributing the Production
Glossary
Index
Biography
Jim Owens has worked and taught in the video and television industry for over 35 years. As a regional Emmy Award-winning producer, he has worked on local, regional, and national productions. Owens’ international television work has included 20 Olympic broadcasts and has taken him to over 25 countries. He is the author of Video Production Handbook, Television Production, and Television Sports Production (all published by Routledge), and has had over 30 articles published in television and broadcast magazines in the United States and Europe. He served as the curator of the History of Olympic Broadcasting exhibition at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. Owens is Dean of the School of Communication Arts at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky, where he has taught since 1981.
