Television production is the method of developing a programs from its early writing stage by collecting of actors and production team, a set or location, and shooting, editing, and preparing it for broadcast. Different types of shows have different production methods, for efficiently creating the final product and delivering it to an audience.
There are essentially two ways of doing. Programs are shot either in a specially designed television studio using several cameras which are fed into a control room and assembled in “real time,” or they are shot using a single camera on location and assembled later in an editing room or on a computer. Obviously, almost all non-professional video is shot using a single camera.
In TV production, the director is like a composer of music, creating and assembling images and impressions, fitting them together carefully, weighing the quality. A director works, in a series of one shot to the next, one scene to the next. He is dealing with only one picture and one situation at a time. Since the program will be edited later, he can shoot out of sequence, repeat shots, and record extra shots to be included later. TV production allows for a richness of scene and artistic creativity born sometimes out of necessity and sometimes out of opportunities suggested by the location itself.
Production team spends most of their time planning, scripting, and organizing things. The amount of time spent actually recording the program is surprisingly short compared to the time spent preparing for it. Each program goes through several important stages, from development of the concept through planning and scripting, then on to set design or location finding, gathering of actors and rehearsal. Along the way, the producer schedules his equipment, crew, and brings all of the necessary elements together for production of the program.
TV productions depend on the skill and cooperation of many people, as well as the ability of the producer and director to bring these people together in a team effort.