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The Name of the Course: Specific Features of Television for Cameramen

Part IV, Term 4

The Scope of the Course: 64 hours (4 hours of seminars, a part of classes take place in TV studios to perform lighting exercises in practice).

4 credit points. Type of Assessment: an examination which includes an oral and a practical part. The practical part involves a creative task of mounting lights in a studio.

The Author of the Course: Ass. Prof. Alvis Indriksons

The Content of the Course: The theme of Part IV of the course is special lighting in television. The course helps to acquire technological and artistic lighting techniques in television and video technology (vs. he cinema).

Preconditions for the Acquisition of the Course: The knowledge of English and Russian is desirable.

Thematic Planning:

THEMES	Week	Type of classes and hours
The nomenclature of lights, lighting of light and shade, tonal lighting. Low-key and high-key.	1	L4
TV rule about the continuity of tonal editing.	2	L2
The main principles of lighting.		L2
The nomenclature of distribution of the sources of light. Drawing light.	3	L2
Levelling light.	4	L2
Modelling light.	5	L2
Contrastive light.	6	L2
Background light and light of effects.	7	L2; S2; S2
The nomenclature of shadows. Its significance in the creation of an image.	8	L4
Light as an action.	9	L2
Light as an aesthetic means.	10	L2
General rules of artistic lighting.	11	L2; S2
Light as a decoration.	12	L1
The basic principles of the lighting of people.	13	L2; S2
The problems with colours in television lighting.	14	L2
Operative lighting during reportings: the environment with daylight, artificial light and composite light.	15	L4
Lighting issues of bigger undertakings outside the studio.	16	L4
Difficulties of broadcasting from theatres and concerts due to the original local lighting.	17	L4
Problems of correct processing of the colour of human skin on TV.	18	L4

Preconditions for the Acquisition of the Credit Points:

A positive assessment at the seminars.

A positive assessment at the examination, both in the oral part (theory) and the practical lighting exercises.

The Name of the Course: Specific Features of Television for Cameramen

Year 3, Term 6

The Scope of the Course: 64 hours (2 seminars, 6 hours of practical work).

4 credit points. Type of Assessment: an examination which consists of two parts: theory and the demonstration of practical skills. The assessment of both parts is equally significant.

The Author of the Course: Ass. Prof. Alvis Indriksons

The Content of the Course: The course introduces students to the technology of TV sound component, for frequently the cameraman has also to perform the functions of sound producer (in reportings).

Preconditions for the Acquisition of the Course: The previous material of the course “The Art of Cameramen” and “Specific Features of Television” should be acquired.

Thematic Planning:

THEMES	Week	Type of classes and hours
The sound component on TV, its significance.	1	L2
The influence of sound alongside with the visual TV component.	2	L2
The essence of sound. Microphones, the principles of their activity: dynamic microphones, ribbon microphones, condenser microphones and electret microphones.	3,4	L4
Technical parameters of microphones: directionality, pickup pattern.	5	L2
The types of the application of microphones.	6,7	L4
Hand and stand microphones. Plants. Lavalieres. Booms. PMZ microphones.
Radio microphones.	8	L2
A seminar: “Microphones”.	9	S2
Acoustics of space, reverberation.	10	L2
The radius of equaliser.	11	L2
Principles of the placement of microphones.	12	L1
Back action, its preclusion.		L1
Specific features of the sources of sound.	13	L2
Diapason of tones.	14	L1
Formant.		L1
Human voice, its recording.	15	L2
The technology of sound production for a programme.	16	L2
Transformation of sound.	17	L2
Commutation.	18	L2
Mixing and the audio console.		L2
Manipulation of signal.	20	L2
Recording and play-back of sound.	21	L2
Dolby technology.	22	L2
Testing of signal.	23	L2L2
A seminar: “Sound channel”.	24	S2
The sound recording of Betacam camera.	25,25,27	L; practical work 6 h
Practical work in sound recording.	28,29,30	L; practical work 6 h
The requirements of technical control.	31	L2

Preconditions for the Acquisition of the Credit Points:

4. 
   All the key elements of the practical work should be acquired.
   
5. 
   A positive assessment at seminars.
   
6. 
   A positive assessment at the examination.