Advanced Diploma Course in Television and Video Production

The Guru Nanak Dev University's Faculty of Arts and Social Science offers Advanced Diploma Course in Television and Video Production course to its students. The course structure for it is as follows:

RESEARCH FOR VIDEO PRODUCTION

PAPER-A
o Role of researcher-knowledge, attributes and skills of researcher.
o Research process-starting method, using sources, collecting information;
presenting findings, illustrative material, using libraries-books, other print
material, photos, films, videos, tapes, other sources-interview, preparing and
conducting.
o Pre-production research, ideas origination, developing treatment, methods of
presentation selling the production.
o Research for characters-dialogues-history-economics-political-cultural and social
status.
o Research for writing narration-commentary research for visual design, location,
setting etc.

Paper-B

o Research for talents.
o Research for make-up costumes, properties.
o Various aspects of research for TV, commercial.
o Analysis of T.V. Commercial.
o Analysis of make-up, costume in films and TV, Serials.

PAPER-II- ADVANCED VIDEO PRODUCTIION

o Creative production techniques.
o Grammar of production and direction.
o Art direction-imagination, illusion, reality, craft-setting and staging.
o Basic design objective and practical aspects
o Movements.
o Costume, make-up.
o Special effects.
o Location selection and other production related aspect.
o Director-actor relation.
o Grammar of acting-complete process, body language, dialogue, inner life.

Paper-B
o Production of music video.
o Make up for T.V. artists/cinema with practical exercise of lighting on sets.

PAPER-III- EDITING AND WRITING SKILLS FOR TELEVISON

PAPER-A
o Technical and creative connections.
o Dialogue sequence, action sequence, and comedy song
o Multi media.
o Digital video effects.
o What is narrative?
o Shooting script and dialogue.
o Writing elements of non-fiction narrative.
o Developing your program ideas.
o Research proposal thematic structure.
o Writing for TV commercial.
o Story boarding.

PAPER: B
o Practical exercise on dialogue in TV/theatre/cinema
o Commentary narration, emotion, style land value.
o Voice modulation for different media-radio/TV/cinema.
o Animation in cartoons and other moving image medium.