ABSTRACT
In commercial television the employers in the main are business men who offer a program and buy time for its transmission in the expectation of attracting an audience of potential purchasers of the advertised product. It is hard to say whether a course at graduate level in the technique of scenic design or work in drawing, painting and architecture is the better method of preparation. In order to provide an efficient scenic layout the designer, until he becomes familiar with camera movement patterns, should discuss tentative ground plans with the technician. The designer is responsible to the program director. The craft services and materials needed to realize the designer’s sketches are costly. In realistic dramatic programmes, however, another situation obtains: there is an unavoidable comparison between the settings of live television dramas and that of films.
