Career Option in Television Industry

Television today brings the world into our living rooms. With advancements in Information Technology and Satellite Communication, exchange of information happens in the flick of a second. Communicating announcements, news and activities with relevant photographs through e-mail to the print media and cassettes to the visual media, has become an important day- to-day activity of the fourth estate.

Education Details & Eligibility:

Qualifications required for admission are as below:

S.No	Course	Duration/ title	Qualification	Seats
1	Direction	One Year P.G. Certificate Course	Bachelor's Degree	11
2	Electronic Cinematography	One Year P.G. Certificate Course	Bachelor's Degree	11
3	Video Editing	One Year P.G. Certificate Course	Bachelor's Degree	11
4	Sound Recording and TV Engineering	One Year P.G. Certificate Course	Bachelor's Degree with Physics as a subject at Senior Secondary (10+2) level	11

Approximate Education Expenses:

The Fee structure is very affordable - around Rs. 13,000/- for other than SC/STs. (It is Rs. 3,000/- for SC/STs).

A) Three year Post-Graduate Diploma Courses in Television

B) Two year Post-Graduate Diploma Courses

C) One and Half year Certificate Course in Animation & Computer Graphics

D) One year Post-Graduate Certificate Course in Television

The tuition fees, rents and other charges for International/NRI students (other than those sponsored by ICCR) are 6 times the fee mentioned.

Almost all the universities and institutes involving Arts offer Bachelors degree in Television and its related fields.

For details on colleges please visitwww.StudyGuideIndia.com

The employment opportunities are immense as the students can find decent employment with commercial television industry, documentary and non-feature film making, advertisement and corporate film making, educational and instructional film making, IPTVs, Commercial channels (more than 300 all over India), Government organizations and corporates and the list goes on. But the educational organizations giving quality and apt training are not adequate in India. There are number of foreign educational organizations which constantly woo our students with the assurance of better placement.

There are a lot of jobs available in these industries some of them are

• Music production,
• Cameras,
• Animation
• Storyboard artistry,
• Advertising,
• Promotions,
• Location scouting,
• Casting,
• Make-up and hair,
• Food services
• Acting
• Behind-the-scenes jobs
• Writing,
• Producing
• Directing
• Set design and costume design etc.,

The salary range changes with the jobs in these industries.

The society for television accomplishes the purpose by providing fieldtrips to TV tapings, production houses and industry professionals' homes. The Society throws networking parties for members, and workshops and seminars. Members occasionally attend special movie screenings or pilot tapings.

Web site link:http://www.tvfilmsociety.org//links.htm