Stylised Worlds: Colour Separation Overlay in BBC Television Plays of the 1970s

This essay aims to understand and interrogate the use of Colour Separation Overlay (CSO) as a mode of experimental production and aesthetic innovation in television drama in the 1970s. It sets out to do this by describing, accounting for and evaluating CSO as a production technique, considering the...

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Published inCritical studies in television Vol. 8; no. 3; pp. 1 - 17
Main Author Panos, Leah
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 22.09.2013
Sage Publications Ltd. (UK)
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Aesthetics
Anthologies
Cameras
Color separations
Cooke, Lez
Design
Designers
Drama
Innovations
Interviews
Mysteries
Television
Theater
Writers
studio
blue screen
drama
single play
experimental
designer
aesthetics
CSO
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Summary:This essay aims to understand and interrogate the use of Colour Separation Overlay (CSO) as a mode of experimental production and aesthetic innovation in television drama in the 1970s. It sets out to do this by describing, accounting for and evaluating CSO as a production technique, considering the role of key production personnel, and analysing four specific BBC productions. Deploying methodologies of archival research, practitioner interview, and close textual analysis, the essay also delivers a significant reassessment of the role of the producer and designer in the conceptualisation and realisation of small-screen dramatic fiction.
ISSN:1749-6020
1749-6039
DOI:10.7227/CST.8.3.2