Behind the Scenes and the Screen This is a book about television But it’s not a book about watching television You already know how to do that It’s more about what you don’t watch on television What you don’t see In fact can’t see And maybe never even think about when you turn on your favorite show After all TV seems so simple There are hundreds of channels thousands of shows and we can watch what we want at the touch of a button However television is more complicated than it appears Just count the names in the credits at the end of a program You can see that behind the scenes television takes teamwork creativity hours of effort and something more STEAM Fast Fact Tele means far or far off in Greek and visio means seeing in Latin So television literally means seeing from a distance 5
All of that fun stuff you watch on TV also depends on science and math That may not seem obvious so let’s say it another way How about MATH Great Entertainment 6
Surprised Then let’s find out how Let’s start with some of the coolest things you see on TV like special effects for example Want to make snow fall in summer Send a stuntman flying through the air Fill a room with smoke that doesn’t make anyone cough Sounds like magic but it’s science 7
