Format
There are different definitions for the term "format" - according to the context.
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Definition
This kind of format refers to the slot length of a TV program or the length of a film in general. There are short formats, mid-length and feature-length formats.
Context
short formats: Short documentary (under 50 mins); Short narrative (under 70 mins)
long formats: Feature narrative (70 mins or longer); Feature documentary (50 mins or longer)
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Definition "Genre" is a term borrowed from French that means "category." A documentary genre can be determined by its intention or purpose, its subject, and even its style. SOURCE
Context Narrative serves as the basis for defining fiction film genres, but documentary is traditionally a "non-narrative" form. The narrative-based notions of setting, props, plot, and stock characters serving as the basis for generic definition do not apply. Instead, the key to defining a documentary genre must originate elsewhere.
SOURCES: http://www.fairchildtv.com/english/tor200302.pdf http://www.realityfilm.com/study/genreoverview.php http://www.realityfilm.com/study/genredoc.php
Definition
The term "programming" obviously refers both to television content and to strategies of content selection and presentation. The idea of programming, indeed, might be better served by abandoning narrow definitions based on content or form, and focusing on a set of social processes organized under the rubric of television programming. From this view, ultimately, television programming is a historically developed, changing cultural system for circulating and transforming meaning and value - a system collectively shared and supported by television producers, distributors, and users, who subscribe to and bend its priorities through their participation. Programming, then, is a process for imbuing public value which - advertisers, celebrities, government officials, cultural monitors, and program producers all hope - can be traded in later for cash or the political power to continue their specific forms of program production and distri-bution. Treating programming as a processual cultural system for the circulation of meaning and value is to focus on television programming as always organized but always changing.
Annotations Goal of Programming:Programming (as both Art and Science) tries to get people indoors, tries to get people to stay and tries to get people to come back.
Context Coproduction's partner vehicle, format licensing, also became more popular in the late 1980s and 1990s. Format licensing represents a useful scheme for adapting tested, lower budget formula programming (especially quiz shows and soap operas) for new markets in a way that allows them to be tailored to local tastes and styles. It eliminates many of the production problems coproduction may present, and effectively domesticates a content and a format originated elsewhere.
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http://www.fairchildtv.com/english/tor200302.pdf http://www.iek-akmi.gr/corpus/tvsched_concepts.htm SOURCE http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/coproductions/ coproductions.htm
Definition Video is the technology of processing electronic signals representing moving pictures. The different video formats can be devided in analog and digital video formats. There are analog video encoding formats such as NTSC, PAL and SECAM and analog video tape formats as e.g. U-matic (Sony), Betamax, Betacam, Betacam SP, VHS or S-VHS. Digital video encoding formats on the other hand include MPEG-2 or HDTV, and digital video tape formats range from D1, D2, D3, D5, Digital Betacam, DV, MiniDV to Digital 8.
SOURCES: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video
Definition This format can be devided in amateur formats and professional formats. The category amateur format includes 8mm film, Single-8, Super-8, 9.5mm film, 17.5mm film, 22mm Edison and 28mm Pathescope. Among the professional formats are 16mm, 35mm and 70mm film.
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