Synopses & Reviews
Zettl's VideoLab 4.0 is the fully updated, award-winning DVD-ROM that brings a virtual video production studio right to your students' computer! This stand-alone, interactive DVD-ROM uses demonstrations and guided practice to teach students the basics of the video production process. It establishes a scenario in which the student plays the role of a video intern, getting hands-on video production experience that introduces them to the principles of camera, lighting, audio, switching, editing and the video production process. Zettl's VideoLab 4.0 now features Advanced Labs, challenging exercises designed to improve students' ability with the equipment and concepts introduced in the regular modules. This virtual lab can be used with any of Herb Zettl's books, with other television texts, or with no book at all. Unlike any available book, Zettl's VideoLab 4.0 gives students an opportunity to see, hear, and practice the skills being taught in accurately simulated studio and field environments.
Synopsis
Zettl's VideoLab 4.0 is an interactive DVD-ROM (Windows and Mac compatible) that gives users virtual hands-on practice, allowing them to go beyond simply reading about production techniques to actually applying them in the studio and the field. Now with Advanced Labs, challenging exercises designed to improve students' ability with the equipment and concepts introduced in the regular modules.
Synopsis
Zettl's VideoLab 3.0 is an interactive DVD-ROM (Windows and Mac compatible), based on the award-winning CD-ROM Zettl's VideoLab 2.1. It was a finalist in the prestigious 2005 Codie Awards (a competition for best interactive software). With VideoLab 3.0, you get virtual hands-on practice and a proven shortcut from reading about production techniques to applying them in the studio and the field.
About the Author
Herbert Zettl is a professor emeritus of the Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts Department at San Francisco State University (SFSU). While at San Francisco State University, he headed the Institute of International Media Communication and received the California State Legislature Distinguished Teaching Award and, from the Broadcast Education Association, the Distinguished Education Service Award. Prior to joining the SFSU faculty, Zettl worked at KOVR (Stockton-Sacramento) and as a producer-director at KPIX, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco. While at KPIX, he participated in a variety of CBS and NBC network television productions. Because of his outstanding contributions to the television profession, he was elected to the prestigious Silver Circle of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), Northern California Chapter. He also is a member of the Broadcast Legends of the NATAS, Northern California Chapter. Zettl has authored VIDEO BASICS, VIDEO BASICS WORKBOOK, TELEVISION PRODUCTION HANDBOOK, and SIGHT SOUND MOTION, which are translated into several languages and published internationally. His numerous articles on television production and media aesthetics have appeared in major media journals worldwide. He has lectured extensively on both subjects at universities and professional broadcast institutions both nationally and internationally. Zettl developed an interactive DVD-ROM, ZETTL'S VIDEOLAB 4.0, published by Wadsworth Cengage, a part of Cengage Learning. His previous CD-ROM version won several prestigious awards, among them the Macromedia People's Choice Award, the New Media Invision Gold Medal for Higher Education, and Invision Silver Medals in the categories of Continuing Education and Use of Video.
Table of Contents
1. Camera. 2. Lights. 3. Audio. 4. Switching. 5. Editing. 6. Process.