Video Style books or style guides are a set standards that all media services use too maintain a consistent broadcast quality look in their news presentations.
I use and follow guide books and style books from a number of media outlets that I provide my stringer services too.
The guides that I follow include The Associated Press (AP), (PBS) Public Broadcast Service, (BBC) British Broadcast Corporation, The International Telecommunications Union Specs or (TOS), and The Destination Network video (TOS).
For those who do not know what TOS stands for, it’s the Technical Operations Standards that have been develop and written for that specific media outlet. Many outlets do have very specific video standards that follow a base universal standard, but for live feeds, these media outlets will have more specific color grading and lighting specifications that closely match their studio standards.
Depending on who I am covering for, I always follow that media groups standards for consistency.
The beauty of using SONY FS7’s, SONY FS5 Mark2 and the SONY FX30 video cameras, is that I can program and save the detailed settings for each of these media outlets on the cameras, and recall them to reprogram the cameras to that specifications on the fly.
A Video News Portfolio 