This highly illustrated monograph includes 22 projects developed by students in a basic photography course that can be inexpensively reproduced by students or by anyone interested in photography. Instructions are provided for making 14 photographic accessories, including a film washer, drying cabinet, camera copy stand, and bounce flash diffuser.…

Using a critical approach to television viewing that considers the literary and rhetorical impact of the program examined, this paper analyzes an episode of the family television drama, "Little House on the Prairie." The paper examines the episode's plot, characters, themes, production techniques, sound elements, tone, method of story…

Intended for use by contest judges as well as by school publications' staff and advisers in evaluating their products, this booklet summarizes the fundamentals of journalism as they apply to student publications and outlines established practices and production techniques that are essential to a good publication. The booklet provides a 1,000 point…

The playwrights-directors workshop at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) allows students of directing and playwriting to meet jointly to explore and solve problems in the creation and production of original one-act scripts. At the heart of the program is the belief that both playwriting and directing students profit from producing their efforts…

This introductory guide presents an overview of basic television production, including videotape cameras, recorders, and microphones; staffing needs; procedures for video camera operation; techniques for titling; lighting; factors to be considered when directing a television production; and a sequence for production activities. Diagrams and line…

Designed to culminate an ornamental horticulture class, this teaching guide provides information needed for the year-round operation of a school and/or commercial greenhouse. Three units are presented: production schedules, determining harvest time, and cost analysis. Each unit lists major teaching points, learning activities, and reference…

MICROWAVE TRANSMITTERS WERE USED TO LINK 11 INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING IN THE CENTRAL TEXAS AREA. THIS DEMONSTRATION WAS PLANNED AS A PILOT PROGRAM FOR THE USE OF MICROWAVE CHANNELS TO ACHIEVE A SINGLE CLOSED-CIRCUIT SYSTEM AMONG A NUMBER OF INSTITUTIONS. THE OBJECTIVES WERE (1) TO DEMONSTRATE THE FEASIBILITY, BOTH ECONOMIC AND PROGRAMMATIC,…

A visual literacy project to explore how children who have had no experience or instruction in the use of television would use the technology as a communication medium is discussed. One second and one fourth grade class were chosen to prepare three videotape "letters" communicating to their counterparts in another school information about their…

In an effort to help directors and actors select and describe effective stage movement, this study developed an approach to human movement, based on selected facts and principles from several related disciplines, including anatomy, physiology, and mechanical physics. The theories of expressive movement discussed and the method recommended for the…

The basic potentials and requirements of multiscreen television presentations are explored in this paper. The major theoretical arguments for utilizing the multiscreen approach involve the progressively complex nature of the world: the instantaneousness of the moment, the experiential density, and the multiplicity of viewpoints. There is a…

Arnolt Bronnen's complex monodrama, "Ostpolzug," sought to counter the German anxieties and pessimism following World War I and also provided a theatrical vehicle for experimentation--intensely symbolic and electric--with film techniques of that period. Premiered in January 1926 and directed by the expressionist classics interpreter,…

The potential of television as a communication tool is leading more and more people to consider doing their own television production. This book provides guidelines to the mechanics of small-scale television production, offers suggestions and guidelines for equipment purchasing, and offers to help to ensure that the equipment purchased will be…

These instructional objectives, written by Charles Mitchell, have been selected from materials used at Golden West College (California). These objectives are offered simply as samples that may be used where they correspond to the skills, abilities, and attitudes instructors want their students to acquire. These objectives may also serve as models…

Internal narration is a "direct quotation of the mind" without authorial intervention, in which the reader overhears characters thinking silently. Dramatic interpretation and internal narration share the characteristics of primarily auditory expression and symbolic use of images. One of the most widely read and taught examples of this…

Article suggests how to read narrations and tune the viewer in, not turn him off. (Author)