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#Outline the [[history of TV editing]]--listing the major technological changes. How did these changes have an impact on TV style?
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#Outline the history of TV editing--listing the major technological changes. How did these changes have an impact on TV style?
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#*Live broadcast: switched live
 
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#*Film editing
 
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#*Videotape splicing
 
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#*Linear editing: videotape
 
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#*Nonlinear editing: digital video; computer-based (Final Cut Pro, Edius, Adobe Premiere, Avid)
 
 
#Why type of editing equipment do you suppose was used to cut the following programs:
 
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#*''All My Children'': switched live and nonlinear video
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#*''All My Children'':  
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#*''The Sopranos'': nonlinear film
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#*''Northern Exposure'':
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#*''Seinfeld'': film editing
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#*''Seinfeld'':  
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#*''The Mindy Project'': nonlinear digital video editing
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#*''The Mindy Project'':  
  
 
'''Group 2'''
 
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#List the elements of the production of ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' that make it significant to the history of TV style. Explain ''why'' each element is important.
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#List the elements of the production of ''I Love Lucy'' that make it significant to the history of TV style. Explain ''why'' each element is important.
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#*multi-camera
 
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#*broad, even lighting
 
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#*limited number of sets
 
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#*limited camera movement
 
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#*live studio audience, though shot on film; helped with syndication (better quality than kinescope)
 
 
#What are examples of recent (within the past five years) programs that are shot the same way that ''Lucy'' was shot?
 
#What are examples of recent (within the past five years) programs that are shot the same way that ''Lucy'' was shot?
  
 
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#The history of color TV is very complicated. Create a [[history of color TV|timeline]] that lists the significant events leading up to color TV's widespread implementation.
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#The history of color TV is very complicated. Create a timeline that lists the significant events leading up to color TV's widespread implementation.
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#*1950: FCC approved the hybrid system as THE color system
 
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#*1951: CBS created a color TV, hybrid of electronic and mechanical
 
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#*1951: FCC stops them; CBS ceased color broadcasting
 
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#*December 1953: NTSC (National Television System Committee) sets the color standard, base on RCA/NBC's electronic model
 
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#*1954: NBC color broadcasting began
 
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#*1960s: mass adoption; by 1966, color dominated
 
 
#What impact did color technology have on TV style?
 
#What impact did color technology have on TV style?
 
#What is the NTSC and why was it created?
 
#What is the NTSC and why was it created?
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==External links==
 
==External links==
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*[http://tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/Kinescope-TapeComparison.php Kinescope-Videotape comparison]
 
*[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/Clorox.htm Clorox commercials].
 
*[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/Clorox.htm Clorox commercials].
 
*[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/Laugh-InFlash.php ''Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In''] (episode 15, 9/16/1968)
 
*[http://www.tcf.ua.edu/EO/DV/Laugh-InFlash.php ''Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In''] (episode 15, 9/16/1968)

Revision as of 14:17, 29 September 2014

All groups

  1. Explain the concept that goes by the terms, "technological manifest destiny" and "technological determinism." Why is it a mistaken notion when applied to TV?
    • What are some examples that you've seen that prove this concept is wrong? (Don't rely on the examples in the book and you can refer to technology other than that involving video or TV.)
  2. What is a kinescope? How were kinescopes created and what characterized how they looked? (See figures in Copeland's chapter.)

Group 1

  1. Outline the history of TV editing--listing the major technological changes. How did these changes have an impact on TV style?
  2. Why type of editing equipment do you suppose was used to cut the following programs:
    • All My Children:
    • Northern Exposure:
    • Seinfeld:
    • The Mindy Project:

Group 2

  1. List the elements of the production of I Love Lucy that make it significant to the history of TV style. Explain why each element is important.
  2. What are examples of recent (within the past five years) programs that are shot the same way that Lucy was shot?

Group 3

  1. The history of color TV is very complicated. Create a timeline that lists the significant events leading up to color TV's widespread implementation.
  2. What impact did color technology have on TV style?
  3. What is the NTSC and why was it created?

Group 4

  1. When did the remote control first appear and what were the names of the early devices?
    • How did they work?
  2. How do modern remote controls work and when did they become commonly used?
  3. What have broadcast networks done to try to combat zapping?

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Bibliography

  1. Gary Copeland, "A History of Television Style," in Jeremy G. Butler, Television: Critical Methods and Applications, third edition. Not included in fourth and subsequent editions of Television.

External links

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