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Graphics
> Introduction
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The clip is the title for a film I
made (with Emmy-winner Steve Boettcher)
called "The Gold Rush."
In the old days, we might have just
used plain text over static background.
But today's graphic software makes
it possible to have a moving background
and shape-shifting text.
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Increasingly,
graphics are an important part of the television experience.
Stations and networks spend huge amounts of money on
their graphic "look." The tools for creating slick graphics
used to be prohibitively expensive, but now almost anyone
with talent (that talent thing is important) can create
quality graphics.
But
this is not a TV graphics course. Instead, the goal
for this unit is simply to provide you with an overview
of the graphics landscape, and introduce you to some
basic terminology.
By
the way, in broad terms, a "graphic" is any two-dimensional
image, which would include paintings, posters, signs
etc. that are displayed on television. That's in addition
to graphic images that are designed in a computer.
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