Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Diagrams and tables
- Abbreviations
- Part A Opiate of the people: the television industry
- Part B Massage parlour: development and funding of a project
- Part C Riding the tiger: management of the production
- Chapter 12 Commencement of pre-production
- Chapter 13 Documentation and office systems
- Chapter 14 Crew, equipment and facilities
- Chapter 15 Casting, rehearsal and performance
- Chapter 16 Locations
- Chapter 17 Travel arrangements
- Chapter 18 Drafting the production budget
- Chapter 19 Scheduling the shoot
- Chapter 20 Preparing studio and outside broadcast productions
- Chapter 21 Management of the shoot
- Chapter 22 Management of the production budget
- Chapter 23 Post-production through to delivery
- Part D A nod to the gatekeepers: the environment of television
- Index
- References
Chapter 17 - Travel arrangements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Diagrams and tables
- Abbreviations
- Part A Opiate of the people: the television industry
- Part B Massage parlour: development and funding of a project
- Part C Riding the tiger: management of the production
- Chapter 12 Commencement of pre-production
- Chapter 13 Documentation and office systems
- Chapter 14 Crew, equipment and facilities
- Chapter 15 Casting, rehearsal and performance
- Chapter 16 Locations
- Chapter 17 Travel arrangements
- Chapter 18 Drafting the production budget
- Chapter 19 Scheduling the shoot
- Chapter 20 Preparing studio and outside broadcast productions
- Chapter 21 Management of the shoot
- Chapter 22 Management of the production budget
- Chapter 23 Post-production through to delivery
- Part D A nod to the gatekeepers: the environment of television
- Index
- References
Summary
Television can bring the world into people's living rooms. It can travel to the remotest corners of the globe, capture images and tell both factual and fictional stories set in exotic locations so that viewers experience vicariously the excitement of being there. As a result, production crews venture to all parts of this country, and any others where a story or setting might be located. Travel arrangements for a production bring in factors that aren't part of shooting in the production's home town, not the least being cost. There are impacts on the production from the procedures of getting people and equipment into and out of countries, and the unfamiliarity with the way everyday things are done in other countries. In Australia these may not be issues, but there is an interest in remote and inaccessible places that can create particular challenges to production. How to get there, how to sustain the crew once it is there, and how to access resources and support for production in an unfamiliar environment become the issues instead. The special needs in dealing with remote Indigenous communities were discussed in Chapter 16.
Arrangements for a production to travel include the means of getting there, accommodation and meals for crew (and cast) when they are there, various documents that are necessary for overseas business travel, and briefing about cultures and customs that will be unfamiliar. Ordinary travel requires research, negotiation and lateral thinking.
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- The Business of TV Production , pp. 265 - 276Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007