ABSTRACT

Gain a thorough understanding of the nuanced and multidimensional role producers play in television and emerging media today to harness the creative, technical, interpersonal, and financial skills essential for success in this vibrant and challenging field.

Producing for TV and New Media, Fourth edition is your guide to avoiding the obstacles and pitfalls commonly encountered by new and aspiring producers. This fourth edition has been updated to include:

  • "Focus on Emerging Media" sections that highlight emerging media, web video, mobile format media and streaming media
  • Sample production forms and contracts
  • Review questions accompanying each interview and chapter
  • Interviews with industry professionals that offer practical insight into cutting-edge developments in television and emerging media production
  • Fresh analysis of emerging media technologies and streaming media markets

Written especially for new and aspiring producers with an insight that simply cannot be found in any other book, this new edition of a text used by professors and professionals alike is an indispensable resource for anyone looking to find success as a television or emerging media producer.

chapter Chapter 1|18 pages

What Does a TV Producer Really Do?

chapter Chapter 2|32 pages

Television: Its Past, Present, and Future

chapter Chapter 3|25 pages

The Big Idea: Script and Project Development

chapter Chapter 4|22 pages

Connecting the Dots: Breakdowns, Budgets, and Finance

chapter Chapter 5|22 pages

Welcome to Reality: Legalities and Rights

chapter Chapter 6|23 pages

Pitching and Selling the Project

chapter Chapter 7|29 pages

The Plan: Pre-Production

chapter Chapter 8|26 pages

The Shoot: Production

chapter Chapter 9|27 pages

The Final Product: Post-Production

chapter Chapter 10|19 pages

It’s a Wrap! Now, the Next Steps

chapter Chapter 11|74 pages

Conversations With the Pros: Producing in the Real World