Video Goals: Getting Results With Pictures and Sound
By Tom Schroeppel, 116 pages, 8 1/2 x 11, $9.95
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PARTIAL CONTENTS: Identifying your viewer, Planning the shape of your program, Establishing a style, Writing dramatic and non-dramatic scripts, Pre-production, Using a production board, Directing the basic sequence, Directing to edit, Keeping script notes, Directing actors, How microphones work, Selecting the appropriate microphone, Recording voices and presence, Basic rules of editing, Editing sound, Selecting and cutting music, Editing montages, Preparing for the sound mix, and more.
"Video Goals is the kind of book everyone should read or reread before a directing or editing session. It can help anyone do a better and more professional job."
                                Sandy Mielke
                                Independent Producer/Director
                                Miami, Florida

"Overall, a very valuable guide to the pragmatic elements of the film and television production process.  The text is clear, honest and helpful, not pedantic."
                                  Jay B. Korinek
                                  Professor, Mass Communication
                                  Henry Ford Community College
                                  Dearborn, Michigan

"Your practical experience makes you an especially valuable source of information for production-oriented students."
                                  Patrick McLaughlin
                                  Visiting Instructor
                                  School of Communication
                                  Grand Valley State College
                                  Allendale, MI 49401

"I found your book to be well thought out, carefully planned and executed smoothly...you did a terrific job organizing a lot of helpful information into a well-produced textbook."
                                  Ray DeTournay
                                  President/Executive Producer
                                  DeTournay Productions
                                  Los Angeles, California

"You've taken the 'mystery' out of video production and made it a practical and logical process.  My students enjoy reading your book...and they don't enjoy reading."
                                  Ann E. Eskridge
                                  Instructor, Mass Media Program
                                  Golightly Vocational Technical
                                     Center
                                  Detroit, Michigan

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