TV Production Process: From Idea to Screen

Posted on Aug 14, 2024 in Computers

ITEM 1: PHASES AND DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

Features of Television

Television is the most universally important media. It’s the most watched by all types of individuals, the most used, and the most influential. Reaching all places and households, it’s a mixture of various languages and heterogeneous media. (The beginning of TV is a sum of the rest of the media). (VERY IMPORTANT) The television media is changing so rapidly in style and technology that it’s constantly evolving. You can never say TV is all set up because something will always come back. Each program requires rigorous planning.

The development of the script is subject to the characteristics of television:

  • Preferential use of close-ups
  • Increased length of shots and scenes
  • Reduction of background characters and actors
  • Prima immediacy (the most important feature, all programming is cut at a major event)
  • The audience determines the TV script (targeted audience)

Among the technical features:

  • Multi-Camera Work (multicamera technique) – multiple cameras are used and controlled from realization
  • Manipulation of images
  • Reduced format of the screen

A good production will not save a bad script, but the more you provide value for your budget, the higher the quality of the product. (VERY IMPORTANT) In television production, the script is either fiction or nonfiction. Within these original scripts, we must distinguish between various types:

  • Individual television scripts and original television series (inheritance of radio play)
  • Scripts for entertainment (music, contests, variety)
  • Screenwriter of dramatic documentary, which mixes fiction with nonfiction

PRODUCTION BY MAIN TYPES OF SCRIPTING

  • Those productions that require a fully planned script. (Productions of fiction sitcoms or dramatic, original or adaptation)
  • Productions that do not require a script. With a rundown reflecting the intentions of reports, interviews, live connections… or pattern of transmission (Andalucia Directo)
  • Productions that require a partial script. (For blocks or projections: programs such as magazines, music competitions, etc… (Grand Prix))

The production process is basically divided into 3 phases:

  • Pre-Production
  • Production
  • Post-production

For a producer, the most important phase is the pre-production phase.

PRE-PRODUCTION

  • This is where ideas, goals, and demands are laid down.
  • The Target or the potential audience the program addresses.
  • Evaluate your advertising MARKET PERFORMANCE, deductible cost, audience expectations, and duration.
  • The pre-production stage is covered from the conception of the idea until the beginning of the recording.
  • It is the longest and most complex stage because its mistakes or successes will depend on the remaining phases.
  • With good pre-production, the team is more likely to avoid mistakes and unforeseen delays. (Direct: is real-time, e.g., Ana Rosa. False Direct: recorded to seem like a straightforward but is issued later, e.g., peace on earth, pasapalabra).
  • Depending on the project, it can start weeks or months before the first image is recorded.

STEPS FOR MAKING THE SCRIPT

TITLE

  • Short – Easy marketing example: Lunnis, the anthill.
  • Meaning: avoid titles that could be interpreted as insults by the country where the audiovisual project is sold or disseminated.
  • Easy to pronounce, remember, and translate.
  • Normally, the title of a new audiovisual project is usually tested on a sample basis for determining its acceptance by the audience.
  • Sometimes you put a title to identify the initial product which then changes along with pre-production.

IDEA

  • It is the basis for the implementation of the script (defined as the screenplay makes it better for transmission).
  • Must be brief.

SYNOPSIS

  • Is what can be understood at a glance.
  • The objective is to arouse the interest of the producer to lead to reading the full script. Allows you to sell the production.
  • It is a succinct and concise narration of the story and characters.
  • Sequential order of events.
  • The basic elements of the synopsis are: short, clear, simple, action development, relationship scenarios, and character of the protagonists.

ARGUMENT (Series)

  • The first phase of the literary script.
  • It is the narrative and thematic development of the idea.
  • The plot is told in the present tense.
  • Developing the idea narrative scene by scene with its key events and characters.
  • If a literary adaptation, it is subject to existing laws on copyright or transfer of rights.

TREATMENT

  • It is the intermediate state before the development of the script.
  • It is written in the 3rd person.
  • Scenarios are reported chronologically, actions, and characters.
  • The data reflect essential for the completion and production: (Term of production, the dynamics of the program. Number of scenarios, locations, movements. Style and pace of production. Interpreters, extras, presenters. Everything must appear justified).

ESCALETES

  • Lets see roughly the story. The interplay of the characters, the space-time succession and its connections, calculate the sequence and duration of each.
  • A pre-script: List of the consequences in narrative order or parts of a program.
  • In the regular broadcast programs, unscripted closed, is the most elaborate of the script phase of the program.
  • Utility to display the audiovisual product and its duration (idea of needs).

(CHARACTERISTICS OF ESCALETES)

  • Short Narrative of the action.
  • Development-ordered in time with a minute-acción.
  • Estimated personajes.
  • Plasma-is divided into blocks and these in turn secuencias.
  • “It’s an essential guide to programs not dramáticos.-promotes preventive preparation of the budget. It incorporates the first-time valuation of the project.

TYPES OF SCRIPTS:

Script literary and technical script. The main difference between the script and the script technical literature is that the division of the literary script in dramatic sequences while the technical script is divided into mechanical and sequences in the literary script all the sequences are clustered while the technical script may not coincide 2 sequences in the same folio.

BREAKDOWN is made from the technical script and made the production team is analyzing the content of the script.

List of needs are prepared by the heads of each team, these are not final and are perfected along the producción. De all listings, the most important is the lists of names, is the listing of all members of the artistic and technical teams with phone number, address and accommodation and transportation system running.

WORKPLAN is the final phase of preproduction, this plan is developed after locating and subdivided, it assesses the time required for making imagenes. Aqui all activities are planned involving a shooting in order to maximize resources technical and staff