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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 219 060 IR 010 231 AUTHOR Hitchens, Howard, Ed. TITLE Producing Slide and Tape Presentations: Readings from "Audiovisual Instruction " ---4. INSTITUTION Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Washington, D.C. REPORT NO ISBN-0-89240-035-8 PUB DATE 80 NOTE 71p. AVAILABLE FROMAssociation for Educational Communications and Technology, 1126 16th St., NW, Washington, DC 20036. EDRS PRICE MF01 Plus Postage. PC Not Available from EDRS. DESCRIPTORS *Audiotape Recordings; *Audiovisual Aids; *Audiovisual Instruction; *Program Design; Scripts; *Slides ABSTRACT Designed to serve as a reference and source of ideas on the use of slides in combination with audiocassettes for presentation design, this book of readings from Audiovisual Instruction magazine includes three papers providing basic tips on putting together a presentation, five articles describing techniques for improving the visual images, five explaining how to make title slides, two on slide-tape programming equipment; and five providing examplas of use in operational situations. The concluding section includes a paper on how to publish a slide-tape presentation and another on rehearsing a slide presentation without a projector. 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Association for Educational Communications and Technology Washington, D.C. 1980 r..., 2 r Copyright ° 1980 Association for Educational Communications and Technology ISBN 0-89240-035-8 AECT President, Carolyn Skidmore AECT Executive Director, Howard B. Hitchens Research, Marilyn Coughlin Production, Laurie de Mier Additional copies of this book may be purchased by writing to the Publications Department, Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 1126 16th Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20036. Audiovisual Instruction, now Instructional Innovator, is the official magazine of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology. A subscription to the magazine is included with membership in AECT. Sub- scriptions are also available to nonmembers. For infor- mation, write to: Instructional Innovator, Circulation Department, AECT, 1126 16th Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20036. / FOREWORD To many readers, educational technology today is nearly synonymous with what has been labeled as "high technology"satellite broadcasting, television by cable and broadcast, microcomputers, and direct instructional applications of automated data bases. The organizing of information into purposive messages, however, is at the heart of the development of a technology of instruction, and a general educational tech- nology. The vast array of communications toots at our disposal to accomplish this job always impresses. This latest in the series of books of ireadings from AUDIOVISUAL INSTRUCTION magazine has to do with what many of us in this professional field have come to regard as basic or conventional communications media-slide tape presentations. The growth of photography as a general activity among the citizens of this country has been phenomenal. Nearly every elementaryichild has been exposed to the 35mm slide. It is probably one of .the most easily used; technically and operationally, media that we have in our inventory. This book of readings is dedicated to serving as a reference and book of ideas on the use of slides in combination with audiocassette, for presentation design.Included here are some basic tips on putting together a presentation, techniques for improving the visual images, how to make title slides, a section on equ:pment, and examples of use in operational situations. The book of readings concludes with some notions that are labeled as innovative ideas, butI suspect that there are ideas throughout the articles in the book which the interested reader will find useful. Particular thanks should be extended to Marilyn Coughlin of the AECT staff for fer- reting out these articles initially. It is our hope that these basic ideas on visual presen- tation will move the field forward. Howard Hitchens -- Editor 4 0 CONTENTS SECTION I: THE BASICS OF A SLIDE- TAPE PRESENTATION Preparing a Slide-Tape Program: A Step-by-Step 7 Approach Mack Ryan Script Card to Storyboard 13 Bruce R. Ledford and Gordon Thomas Focused Narrations 16 Mike Lewman SECTION II: TECHNIQUES FOR SLIDES Shortcuts to Better Slides 19 C. Hugh Gardner Making the Most of Your Visualmaker 22 C. Hugn Gardner Multiple Image Slides 26 David M. Jenkins 7302 Could be the Answer to Some of Your 29 Transparency Production Needs Paul E Novak Changing the Image Shape of 35mm Slides 30 Duane E. Hedin SECTION III: HOW TO MAKE TITLE Sk 1DES Making Title Slides 32 Deane W. Hutton and Jean Anne Les,:ohier How to Make Title Slides with High Contrast Film 35 Deane K Dayton Adding Impact to 35mm Slides 41 Neal Hall Make Perfect Slide Captions Every Time 42 Marie E. Col/art and Beth L. Wismar 5 ,, .0 How to Produce Title Slides in a Hurry 45 John A. Kalmbach SECTION IV: SLIDE-TAPE EQUIPMENT An Inexpensive, Easy-to-Build, Slide-Tape 47 Programmer Terrence Lukas Your Program Syncs 50 Neal Hall SECTION V: EXAMPLES OF SLIDE- TAPE UTILIZATION Develop Your Own Mediated Career Information 54 Richard L. Douglass, Dale G. Zikmund, James T Horner, Rosemary L. Homer ".... .... Slick Slides for Reluctant Readers ' .. 57 Terry McConnell Attendance Problems? Try a 'Success Story' 59 Slide Show Ward Holm Tanzer Make the Most of Vacation Slides! 62 Gerald Barkholz Bilingual Slide-Tape Library Orientation 64 James Martinelli SECTION VI: INNOVATIVE IDEAS How to Pub Hitt Your Own Slide-Tape 67 Presenta:lon Michael Bentley Rehearsing a Slide Presentation Without a 70 Projector Arthur P. Sharkey. Jr., and Richard H. Emenecker , \ % \, C THE BASICS OF A SLIDE-TAPE PRESENTATION PRODUCING SLIDE AND TAPE PRESENTATIONS 7 PREPARING A SLIDE -TAPE PROGRAM: A STEP-BY-STEP APPROACH MACK RYAN A slide-tape production can serve as an initial step to achieve with the presentation? Will it relate to the in opening the doors of creativity for teachers and stu- current instructional program? Is its aim to instruct, to dents Both can find great satisfaction in creating a motivate, or to do both? What information and attitudes product that they feel is useful, that requires the appli- will the audience bring with them? Do you want to cation of skills, and that can be ei.loyed by others. An provide students with additional information? Do you effective teaching tool, a slide -tare program can be want to change their attitudes? Contact your working designed based on specific objectives in nearly any colleagues who are interested in the project and solicit subject area. their suggestions for the slide-tape project. Once this The budget for producing a slide-sound program is phase is completed, simply list the ideas you plan to modest The raw material costs for a 10 to 15 minute include in the program and research them to insure producticn total about $15 00 This includes the price that no major ideas or facts have been overlooked. of the audiotape And the processed film. The price of A complete "outline- is now in order. Include in it the audio and the photographic equipment will vary the content as well as any other ideas or visual images according to the level of sophistication and con- that have come to you as you explored the purpose of venience desired by the purchaser, with a range of the program and examined the research material related $200 fora basic audio-photographic unit to $1,000 and to it. up for more advanced equipment. Add $200 to $300 to Now obtain a pack of blank 4" x 6 index cards. Start these costs for a projector and a screen. This is not an writing down or drawing crude sketches (whether you exorbitant investment for tools that permit th. develop- write, draw, or do both at this stage depends on your ment and implementation of instructional programs verbal or visual orientation) of ideas or facts about the tailored to local needs. program as you think about them. (This is where the Slide-tape packages provide a very convenient and outline will serve as d valuable reference tool.) The in- flexible instructional program Slides are easily stored teraction between your thoughts about the program in trays, carousels, cartridges, or files and can be and expressing them in writing or in a visual form will organized, arranged, or rearranged to suit the needs of generate a script. If you think of a point as you concen- the user Simply replace an old slide with a nevi/ one if trate on an idea, try to state it in as few words as pos- there is a need to update the presentation. Audiotapes sible or prepare a rough sketch of it. Put each idea or and cassettes also lend themselves to modification fact on a separate index card, with the sketch in the and updating by means of the erasure and rerecord upper left hand corner and the statement underneath features on the audio machines. The combined y isual- it (See Figure 1). Go back later and complete the card if sound production can be packaged, easily indexed, either the statement or the sketch has not been added. and stored in locally or commercially manutactured Lay out the 50 to 100 cards you have prepared on a lockers for easy accessibility.