Reporting London Archives - THIS IS THAMES from Transdiffusion https://thames.today/tag/reporting-london Thames TV: a talent for television 1968-1992 Tue, 27 Jul 2021 14:44:55 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://thames.today/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cropped-thames-favicon-32x32.png Reporting London Archives - THIS IS THAMES from Transdiffusion https://thames.today/tag/reporting-london 32 32 The heart of Thames: making programmes https://thames.today/the-heart-of-thames-making-programmes https://thames.today/the-heart-of-thames-making-programmes#respond Tue, 23 Nov 1982 21:00:38 +0000 http://thames.today/?p=959 Teddington, Euston and OB units combine to make great television

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]]> Although advancing technology is changing the face of television production, programme making remains a strongly co-operative venture involving a large number of specialists: camera operators, make-up artists, set designers, writers, directors, producers, editors, vision and sound technicians, and many more. From initial idea to finished production, it is their joint expertise which makes a programme what it is. And Thames can point to a fine array of talent in every department.

Studio production is controlled from the ‘gallery’ or control suite. The director selects his pictures one by one from the range presented to him on the monitor screens: one for each camera being used, another for pre-recorded or filmed inserts, another for captions, titles or stills, photographs on 35mm slides. Beside him sits a production assistant and the vision mixer who controls the electronic switching between all these picture sources. Seated nearby or in adjacent rooms are the lighting director, and his sound supervisor. Meanwhile, in the studio below, the floor manager is in charge, making sure that everything and everyone is in the right place at the right time. He maintains contact with the control suite by shortwave-radio talkback, and relays the director’s instructions to the studio at large.

What’s more, the company gives them a wide range of the very latest facilities, based on both film and videotape. Thames operates six studios: three in the main production complex by the river Thames at Teddington, and three more including the specially designed Thames News studio at the company’s headquarters in Euston Road, London. The Teddington studios are used mainly for drama and entertainment programmes, while the Euston facilities are devoted almost exclusively to news, current affairs and feature programmes.

For location work outside the studios, Thames maintains a large Film Department and a Mobile Division with six outside broadcast (OB) vehicles equipped to bring superb studio standards to ‘outside programmes’ like Wish You Were Here…? and London Night Out. In constant touch with Thames’ main facilities through microwave radio links, the OB units can record programme material on videotape for later transmission or insertion into other programmes. And, of course, they also provide live coverage of sporting events, state and other major occasions.

Many studio programmes, too, are transmitted live. Reporting London and Thames News are examples. But most are pre-recorded in sequences which can be edited together later, which allows time for corrections to be made, and therefore ensures the highest possible quality.

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]]> https://thames.today/the-heart-of-thames-making-programmes/feed 0 The biggest programme producer in ITV https://thames.today/the-biggest-programme-producer-in-itv https://thames.today/the-biggest-programme-producer-in-itv#respond Tue, 23 Nov 1982 19:00:59 +0000 http://thames.today/?p=972 Ten programme departments and two subsidiary film companies make Thames the biggest programme producer in ITV

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