Video Field Production and Editing - Hardcover

Compesi, Ronald J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0205295568 ISBN 13: 9780205295562

Publisher: Pearson, 1999

Synopsis

Video Field Production and Editing concentrates on video techniques and technology appropriate for “small scale” single camera electronic field production (EFP) and electronic news gathering (ENG). Special emphasis is placed on portable camcorders and editing equipment.

The Fifth Edition continues its concise, non-technical, and user-friendly format and updates students on new and emerging video technologies.

This easy-to-read text takes students through the video production process, from initial planning through final editing, integrating numerous real-world examples, key words, a glossary, and appendices to reinforce major topics and enhance the students' learning experience.

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Review

"The blending of the technical and aesthetic aspects of video production is always a challenge, and Compesi has made a very good effort at making [these qualities] accessible to students in an introductory course. This is important to me as an educator and I believe it is an important core to a well-written text on video production."
~ Laura Vazquez, Northern Illinois University

From the Back Cover

Video Field Production and Editing, Seventh Edition
Ronald J. Compesi,San Francisco State University

 

Video Field Production and Editingconcentrates on video techniques and technology appropriate for "small scale" single-camera electronic field production (EFP) and electronic news gathering (ENG).

 

This text offers the latest material on new digital field recording and editing technologies and is written in a concise, non-technical, user-friendly format. It takes students through the video production process from initial planning through final editing.

New to the Seventh Edition

• Reorganized and updated throughout to ensure that students learn about the latest developments in this rapidly changing field.

 

• New sections dedicated to HDV (High Definition Video) videotape recording formats and tapeless digital recording media including high capacity optical discs, solid-state memory cards, and computer hard drives.

 

• Chapter 2, “Production Planning,” now includes new examples of production planning materials such as budgets, storyboards, and script treatments as well as discussions of copyright and distribution.

 

• An expanded Chapter 7, “Lighting,” contains a more detailed discussion of field interview lighting techniques.

 

• New sections in Chapter 8, “Sound,” on digital audio file formats and the Pro Tools digital audio production system.

 

• Chapter 9, “Editing Aesthetics,” incorporates new sections on “Editing Voice-Driven Stories” and “Storytelling,” focusing on news, documentary, and television magazine feature story structure.

 

• Chapter 13, “Postproduction Graphic Design,” integrates a discussion of video graphics on postproduction graphic design.

 

• More than 100 new or revised photographs and illustrations of contemporary video field production practices and equipment allow students to see examples of the current materials available in the field.

 

 

Praise for Video Field Production and Editing

 

The blending of the technical and aesthetic aspects of video production is always a challenge, and Compesi has made a very good effort at making [these qualities] accessible to students in an introductory course. This is important to me as an educator and I believe it is an important core to a well-written text on video production.

 

~ Laura Vazquez, NorthernIllinoisUniversity

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0205295568
• ISBN 13: 9780205295562
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 462