The article discusses some of the aspects of production quality in the designing of video training programs as they relate to training objectives. (BP)

General guidelines for converting television equipment to color. (HB)

Techniques for producing title slides are discussed. (HB)

Suggestion on how to teach filmmaking are given. (HB)

Tells how one school saves money by having the publications staff prepare and paste-up camera-ready copy. (RB)

Describes how a handful of students at Wickenburg High School in Arizona produced a newsmagazine. (RB)

This is a simple how-to-do it manual intended to help projects that wish to produce print materials. It highlights the stages involved in producing print materials, giving an overview of the steps required and offering hints on different approaches to the various processes. The manual begins with the comprehensive layout (dummy) stage and proceeds…

This paper identifies and describes four braille production systems that are currently in use: (1) manual--the printed material is transcribed onto braille, proof-read, corrected, and printed; (2) semi-automated--computers or microprocessors transcribe and/or translate the text from ink-print to braille but depend on a manual entry of the text to…

Citing the success of commercial dinner theatres, this guide is designed to persuade high school drama teachers to try the idea and also to answer questions and help solve problems for those producing a dinner theatre for the first time. The six chapters cover choosing the place, the menu, and the play; ticket sales; advertising and publicity; and…

The television camera is selective in the information in conveys. Since the effect image size has on receiver behavior is important, television production texts perpetually include discussions of camera shots and refer to close-ups as providing the most information. Yet none of the surveyed research has systematically controlled and examined the…

The author analyzes Dr. H. J. Skornia's criticism of his essay, "The Failure of Educational Television." He clarifies the meaning of his statement that ETV must take lessons from commercial television and suggests that educational broadcasters make greater use of communication theory and research in audiovisual instruction in preparing their…

Part of a program to help teacher and student understand how film animation works, this illustrated handbook describes various kinds of animation and ways to produce such films. Preceding discussions of animation techniques is a brief section on filmmaking basics. Animation techniques described include animation without film, handmade films,…