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"This reference guide provides comprehensive information on how the Spanish language is copyedited for publication. The book covers these major areas: language basics: capitalization, word division, spelling, and punctuation; language conventions: abbreviations, professional and personal titles, nam ... more
"The Art of the Storyboard shows beginners how to conceptualize and render the drawings that will communicate continuity to the cinematographer, set designer, and special effects supervisor, or to create the skeletal outline around which an animated program is developed. Using sketches of shots from ... more
"Hans Peter Willberg, Gestalter unzähliger unter den "schönsten deutschen Büchern und in anderen Wettbewerben ausgezeichneter Bücher und Typografieprofessor stellt mit Erste Hilfe in Typografie einen Ratgeber für Gestaltung mit Schrift vor, der step by step in die Welt der Typografie einführt. ... more

Television Production

Oxford: Focal Press, 13th ed. (1999), xvi, 635 pp.
"Television Production offers you a very practical guide to professional TV and video production techniques. Here you will find straightforward description and explanations of the equipment you will use, and discover the best ways to use it. You will also learn how to anticipate and quickly overcome ... more
"L'objectif majeur de cet ouvrage est de répondre à toutes les questions que se posent les journalistes africains sur l'utilisation d'Internet dans leur contexte professionnel quotidien. Quelles sont les spécificités de l'usage d'Internet en Afrique ? Où et comment trouver des médias et des co ... more
"Comment être proche de son lecteur ou auditeur ? Comment écrire court ? Comment préparer son reportage ? Qu'est-ce qu'un bon titre ? [...] En trente questions et leurs réponses, ce manuel livre les B.A. BA du métier aux journalistes débutants ou à ceux qui souhaitent se les rappeler. Ces bas ... more
"Hinter den Leinwandphantasien, die uns mit spielerischer Selbstverständlichkeit gefangennehmen, stecken akribische Vorbereitung, vielfältige Erfahrung und aufwendige Technik. Making of... erlaubt mit sorgfältig recherchierten Texten und rund 1700 ausgesuchten Farbbildern einen faszinierenden Bli ... more
"The Essential TV Director's Handbook is written by an ex-BBC trainer with a great deal of experience in the world of television. It describes step-by-step how to prepare and direct every familiar type of common programme format including interviews, discussions, reportage, music and dramatisations ... more

Basic Studio Directing

Oxford et al.: Focal Press (1998), 192 pp.
"All studio directors need to know the basics of studio directing, whether they go on to direct news, drama, children's programmes or light entertainment. Learning the ropes on air can be costly: this book gives you all the practical and technical guidance you need to deliver a trouble free programm ... more
" Though second only to education in the public's ranking of importance, religion reporting tends to turn up last in audience satisfaction. Reporting News About Religion takes aim at all the special challenges and difficulties that make this so. Geared to print and broadcast journalists, the book pr ... more

Interviewing Children: A Guide for Journalists and Others

London: Save the Children, 2nd, extensively revised and updated ed. (1998), 42 pp.
"O livro se concentra no uso do microfone no rádio. Mas vale para qualquer situação. Primeiro apresenta um panorama do radio no Brasil e como é a programação radiofônica. Segunda apresenta a prática, ensinando as técnicas necessárias para bem falar ao microfone." (Descrição da editora)

Die Kunst des Drehbuchlesens

Bergisch Gladbach: Bastei Lübbe (1998), 239 pp.
"Eine Einführung in die Drehbuchanalyse und -bewertung für Dramaturgen, Produzenten, Lektoren und Redakteure mit anschaulichen Beispielen aus Deutschland. Schütte ist Leiter der Masterschool Drehbuch in Postdam und hat dort die Seminare "Kunst des Drehbuchlesens" entwickelt." (Verlagsbeschreibung ... more