Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Effective TV Production gives a succinct but thorough overview of the production process. Whatever your role in television, this book outlines the main functions of your job, placing them in the context of all other operations and showing how they are interrelated. The book shows how, within the often severe limitations of time and money, it is possible to originate interesting and competitive television programmes. It describes the essentials of good camerawork and relates them to considerations of audio, staging, lighting, make-up and wardrobe techniques and the way in which a production is developed in approach and style form the initial stages to the moment of shooting. This edition is substantially revised to reflect developments in technology and contemporary production styles. Gerald Millerson'd books on television have long been acknowledged as among the best ever published.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• The human visual system
• Dispersion of light
• Angle of view
• Autofocus systems
• Testing projection systems
• Overall system performance
• Inverted telephoto
• The zoom lens
• Polarising filters
• Optics of the compact autofocus camera
• Video lenses
• Colour correction of video lenses
• Opto-electronic devices
• Scanners and writers
• Glossary