Shot Composition: Framing Effective Shots
The basic purpose of framing a shot is to show images as clearly as possible and to present them so that they convey meaning and energy. Essentially, you clarify and intensify the event before...
Television in India: Past, Present and Future
PAST Television broadcasts started in India under All India Radio (AIR). Television began in India on 15th September 1959 as an experiment. There were only two one-hour programmes a week, each of...
Television as a Medium: Characteristics & Impacts
Television is a popular and powerful medium which plays a central role in the multimedia environment in the present day world. Amongst all the mass media today, television attracts the largest...
Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE)
The one year long Satellite instructional television experiment (SITE) which commenced on 1st August 1975 and concluded on 31st July 1976, marked the beginning of a series of innovative and...
Evolution of Television
Since replacing radio as the most popular mass medium in the 1950s, television has played such an integral role in modern life that, for some, it is difficult to imagine being without it. Both...
Television Broadcasting: Glossary
Across mike: Referring to the technique of speaking sideways to a microphone, rather than directly into it, to reduce hissing, popping, and explosive sounds.Across-the-board: A program or...
TV: Video Production Steps
1 - Developing programme Briefs, Objectives, Contents, Duration The production of documentary is similar to the production of soft news video package. The crew for documentary production is small,...
Television Genres
Television has become an integral part of our daily lives, offering a vast array of genres and channels that cater to diverse audiences. From news and sports to entertainment and lifestyle,...
Television Programme Formats
A television program refers to a segment of content specifically created for broadcast on television, excluding commercials, trailers, or other segments that do not serve as attractions for...
Television: Programme Production
There are a large number of television news channels in the Indian media today. Some of these channels tend be ‘news-centric’, which means that they believe in traditional journalistic content and...
Organisational Structure of a Television Station
A television station is a business, organization or other enterprise that transmits content over television. A television transmission can occur via analog television signals or through digital...
Writing for Visuals
Writing for television is different from writing for print, radio or the internet. This is because television is an audio-visual medium, and television writing must maximize the possibilities and...
Broadcast Solutions
The media and broadcasting industry is growing at the breathtaking speed. The industry players are facing challenges to manage their technological processes, keeping their advertising revenues...
Open Internet, Net Neutrality & Digital Divide
Net neutrality is the idea that internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all content flowing through their cables and cell towers equally. That means they shouldn't be able to slide some...
Internet as a Mass Medium
Internet has revolutionized the communication world. It has fundamentally changed the way people learn, play, create and communicate. Today it has become a part of our life. It is not just a...
Computer Software and its Models
Software (SW) can be shortly defined as the executable code that controls computer behaviour and operations. The term is used, however, to describe a wide range of programming languages,...
Computer Basics
Computer as a revolution left no area of life untouched in the present world. It is of tremendous help in all field of life. Hence, the knowledge of computer is a necessity for existence of...
New Media Technology Terms
Flipboard is a news aggregator and social network aggregation company based in Palo Alto, California, with offices in New York, Vancouver and Bejiing. The Wire is a news website published by the...
Internet/Digital Media: The Good and Bad
Digital Media certainly has affected modern day society. It has given the consumers a vast range of information and the opportunity to learn and educate themselves. But some people may argue that...
Blogs, Search Engines & Social Networks
A blog (short for weblog) is a personal online journal that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs are defined by their format: a series of entries posted to a...
New Media and Journalism
The Internet provides the technical capability for a user to read an article, examine its sources, and interact through a natural conduit that other media do not provide. A newspaper’s Web site...
Website Design
Web design encompasses many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of websites. The different areas of web design include web graphic design; interface design;...
New Media and Public Sphere
Innovations in technology, particularly in digital media, increasingly are changing the way people use Media, Entertainment & Information (MEI) services. More than this, the very fabric of daily...
അപ്പുവും ബസ് മുതലാളിമാരും - ഒരു നെറ്റ് ന്യൂട്രാലിറ്റി കഥ
ഇന്ത്യയിലെ ഇന്റര്നെറ്റ് സേവനദാതാക്കള് ഇന്റര്നെറ്റിനെ വിഭജിക്കാനും, ഗുണ്ടാ പിരിവു് നടത്താനും, ഉപഭോക്താക്കളുടെ അവകാശങ്ങളെ തകര്ക്കാനുമുള്ള അനുവാദത്തിനായി നെറ്റ് ന്യൂട്രാലിറ്റിക്കെതിരായുയര്ത്തിയ...
ഓപ്പൺ ഇന്റർനെറ്റും ന്യൂട്രാലിറ്റിയും: തർക്കങ്ങളുടെ പിന്നാമ്പുറം
നെറ്റ് ന്യൂട്രാലിറ്റിയെക്കുറിച്ചുള്ള ഒട്ടുമിക്ക ചർച്ചകളും ഇന്നു് ഒരു ബൈനറി ലോജിക്കിന്റെ പിടിയിൽ അകപ്പെട്ടിരിക്കയാണു്. നെറ്റ് ന്യൂട്രാലിറ്റിക്കു വേണ്ടി വാദിക്കുന്ന സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യപ്പോരാളികളും നെറ്റ്...
Desktop Publishing: Softwares
Desktop Publishing (DTP) is the creation of electronic forms of information such as documents, presentations, brochures, books, or even website content using computer programs. DTP has evolved to...
New Media - Concept Map
Used as a learning and teaching technique, concept mapping visually illustrates the relationships between concepts and ideas. Often represented in circles or boxes, concepts are linked by words...
New Media: Concept & Characterstics
New Media is an umbrella term used to refer to a wide range of media platforms and technologies. Digital technologies that take advantage of computers and the Internet have led to products and...
Kheda Communication Project
Gujarat’s Kheda district has a special place in Indian history for many reasons. It was the home of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the place where Mahatma Gandhi started his second Satyagraha on Indian...
Media Ethics: An Overview
It is expected from a journalist that he does his job honestly and objectively along with the protection of the sources and loyalty with the employer. These factors create dilemma at times. Hence,...