The Video Performer teaches students how to perform effectively in front of the camera for maximum communicative impact. This is one of the few texts on the market that deals exclusively with video performance. Practical and skills-oriented, the text contains numerous exercises and activities addressing both verbal and non-verbal communication. The author discusses important topics such as how to work cooperatively with a technical crew, how the unique aspects of television shape the video performance, how to work with media consultants, and the importance of voice production, breath control, phrasing and emphasis in a successful on-screen performance. A variety of performance situations including interviews, broadcast news, and commercials are included. The Video Performer helps any professional who needs to appear onscreen develop the unique skills involved in video performance.

The Video Performer

Dreibelbis, Gary

Humor & Entertainment

Allyn&Bacon

Television has eclipsed the church and school as the most dominant storyteller in our culture. Watching What We Watch discusses the various aspects of "reading" television, helps us to understand how television creates meanings, and teaches us to assess the truth and value of those meanings. Watching What We Watch provides an accessible framework for analyzing television theologically and from the perspective of our values and beliefs. A team of experts uses examples from popular television shows to to explore the forces that drive television production and to challenge viewers to consider what things they should appreciate about television and what things they should call into question.

Watching What We Watch: Prime-Time Television through the Lens of Faith

Religion & Spirituality

Blythe, Teresa

Davis Jr., Walter T.

Scalese, Mark

Winslea, Elizabeth

Christian Books & Bibles

Westminster/John Knox Press

A must read for any and all boomers of a certain age growing up in the Washington, D.C. area. Heavens to Warner Wolf the author doesn't need the videotape to recall so many great memories. - Leonard Shapiro, Former Sports Editor and Washington Redskins' beat writer for the Washington Post.
More than a trip down Memory Lane. Gary Dreibelbis' chronicle of growing up in Washington is a journey through shared memories to common roots. He revisits a time and place that seems both simple and complex, recalling JFK, the Beatles, fallout shelters, and a District of real neighborhoods and places as varied as classrooms, the Jefferson Memorial, Walt Disney, and Shirley Povich. This terrific narrative is both personal and universal. - Bill Knight, Former Arts Editor of Washington Weekly.
What a beautiful story, that takes me back to the magic of a lost America, when kids still delivered newspapers, when television was young, and families always ate together. Reading this, I can smell the tang of root beer floats and hear the hum of those old black and white TVs -- I can imagine the ink stains from the Post on Gary's fingers. This is a precious story of an everyday American family in the nation's capital, growing up in a time when current events would change them, and the country, forever. What Gary has written here is a wonderful love-letter to my birthplace, the District of Columbia. - Steve Osunsami, ABC News
Gary C.Dreibelbis is a Washington, D.C. native who has taught Communication courses at Northern Illinois University, Bradley University, The University of Georgia, and Solano College. He is the author of The Gospel According to Sesame Street: Learning, Life, Love, and Death and coauthor and editor of Watching What We Watch: Prime Time Television Through the Lens of Faith.

Capitol Kid: A Baby Boomer Grows Up in Washington, D.C.

Neely Worldwide Publishing

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