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Free Download Schoolism – Visual Development for Television
Chrystin Garland | Duration: 7:05 h | Video: H264 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC 44,1 kHz 2ch | 698 MB | Language: English
Behind every great animated TV show are the visual development artists that create and design the world in which the story takes place. In "Visual Development for Television", you will learn about the process of building a world that visually communicates a story from scratch with Chrystin Garland, visual development artist for Netflix, DreamWorks, Titmouse, and more.
Over the course of 9 weeks, Chrystin will introduce you to the vast world of visual development as it applies to television and show you how to approach tackling a new project from the beginning research stage, to creating your cast of characters, to the color design, and everything in between. Chrystin will share her tips and techniques on how she visually communicates the intended story through color theory, environment design, composition, creating characters, prop design, etc., and will also provide in-depth demos throughout.
If you’re interested in visual development for television but aren’t sure what it entails, Chrystin breaks down the process of creating a visual world in a way that is approachable and easy to understand for any artist!

Free Download Jonathan Bignell, "The New Television Handbook Ed 5"
English | ISBN: 1138833517 | 2017 | 346 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The New Television Handbook provides an exploration of the theory and practice of television at a time when the medium is undergoing radical changes. The book looks at television from the perspective of someone new to the industry, and explores the place of the medium within a constantly changing digital landscape.

Free Download Berfin Emre Cetin, "The Paramilitary Hero on Turkish Television: A Case Study on Valley of the Wolves"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 144387082X | PDF | pages: 196 | 1.3 mb
The Paramilitary Hero on Turkish Television: A Case Study on Valley of the Wolves explores the representation and reception of nationalism and masculinity in Turkey through an examination of the popular television serial, Valley of the Wolves which has been aired on Turkish television since 2003. This detailed examination of the show demonstrates a particular discourse of nationalism, namely the Turkish Islam synthesis embedded in a gender-specific regime in which the paramilitary hero is placed at the centre. The study draws on thirty-seven in-depth interviews with viewers of the programme from different social backgrounds. These viewers read the serial from various perspectives in the light of their gendered experiences, suggesting that the relationship between text and audience is not necessarily predetermined by the former, but is rather constructed through an interdiscursive process. The book also examines the pleasures of the "contesting" readers of Valley of the Wolves, drawing on the audience interviews, and argues that critical approaches to a particular media text do not present a barrier to audience pleasures.

Free Download Jeremy Orlebar, "The Television Handbook Ed 4"
English | ISBN: 0415604141 | 2011 | 336 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The Television Handbook is a critical introduction to the practice and theory of television. The book examines the state of television today, explains how television is made and how production is organised, and discusses how critical thinking about programmes and genres can illuminate their meanings. This book also explores how developments in technology and the changing structure of the television industry will lead the medium in new directions.

Free Download Meta Television: A History of US Popular Television’s Self-Awareness
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032366346 | 165 Pages | PDF (True) | 3 MB
The idea of metatextuality is frequently framed as a recent television development and often paired with the idea that it represents genre exhaustion. US television, however, with its early "live" performances and set-bound sitcoms, always suggested an element of self-awareness that easily shaded into metatextuality even in its earliest days. Meta Television thus traces the general history of US television’s metatextuality throughout television’s history, arguing that TV’s self-awareness is nothing new-and certainly not evidence of a period of aesthetic exhaustion-but instead is woven into both its past and present practice, elucidated through case studies featuring series from the 1970s to the present day-many of which have not been critically analyzed before-and the various ways they deploy metatext to both construct and deconstruct their narratives. Further, Meta Television asserts that this re- and de-construction of narrative and production isn’t just a reward to the savvy and/or knowledgeable viewer (or consumer), but seeks to make broader points about the media we consume-and how we consume it.

Free Download Elizabeth Rodwell, "Push the Button: Interactive Television and Collaborative Journalism in Japan"
English | ISBN: 147802576X | 2024 | 200 pages | PDF | 12 MB
In Push the Button, Elizabeth Rodwell follows a battle over what interactivity will mean for Japanese television, as major media conglomerates took on independent media professionals developing interactive forms from new media. Rodwell argues that at the dawn of a potentially transformative moment in television history, content conservatism has triumphed over technological innovation. Despite the ambition and idealism of Japanese TV professionals and independent journalists, corporate media worked to squelch interactive broadcast projects such as smartphone-playable television and live-streamed and open press conferences before they caught on. Instead, interactive programming in the hands of major TV networks retained the structure and qualities of most other television and maintained conventional barriers between audiences and the actual space of broadcast. Despite their lack of success, the innovators behind these experiments nonetheless sought to expand the possibilities for mass media, national identity, and open journalism.

Free Download Melissa Crawley, "The American Television Critic: A History"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1476669368 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 2.8 mb
Aren’t we all TV critics? It’s a question that overlooks the importance of professional critics whose print and online columns reach large audiences. Their work helps viewers engage with programming and helps shape the conversations that arise. This book covers more than five decades of American criticism, from the early days to the present. Whether by praising or condemning programming trends, evaluating production and ratings, analyzing storylines or weighing in on policy decisions, a television critic’s work is more than a consumer guide-it is part of a rich history that offers an insightful view of American culture.

Free Download Television Drama in Contemporary China: Political, Social and Cultural Phenomena By Shenshen Cai
2016 | 142 Pages | ISBN: 1138645788 | PDF | 2 MB
Due to high audience numbers and the significant influence upon the opinions and values of viewers, the political leadership in China attributes great importance to the impact of television dramas. Many successful TV serials have served as useful conduits to disseminate official rhetoric and mainstream ideology, and they also offer a rich area of research by providing insight into the changing Chinese political, social and cultural context.This book examines a group of recently released TV drama serials in China which focus upon, and to various degrees represent, topical political, social and cultural phenomena. Some of the selected TV serials reflect the present ideological proclivities of the Chinese government, whilst others mirror social and cultural occurrences or provide coded and thought-provoking messages on China’s socio-economic and political reality. Through in-depth textual analysis of the Descriptions, scenes and characters of these selected TV serials, the book provides timely interpretations of contemporary Chinese society, its political inclinations, social fashions and cultural tendencies. The book also demonstrates how popular media narratives of TV drama serials engage with sensitive civic issues and cultural phenomena of modern-day China, which in turn encourages a broader social imagination and potential for change.Advancing our understanding of contemporary China, this book will appeal to students and scholars of contemporary Chinese culture, society and politics, as well as those with research interests in television studies more generally.

Free Download Tube of Plenty: The Evolution of American Television (2nd Edition) by Erik Barnouw
English | 1990 | ISBN: 0195064844 | 624 Pages | PDF | 32.1 MB
Based on the classic History of Broadcasting in the United States, Tube of Plenty represents the fruit of several decades’ labor.

Free Download Digital Television Fundamentals
by Stefan Mozar and Konstantin Glasman
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1785612506 | 434 pages | True PDF | 22.66 MB