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About The print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1977-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1978)
Student video technicians produce visual ai By Joy Williams and Marlene Clark Of The Print watched him on the closed circuit television screen. Students in the department are also being given the oppor tunity to learn new skills while volunteering their services to county agencies. When the Clackamas County Juvenile Court needed volunteers for their services of temporary foster care and transportation aids, they advertised over radio and television and received poor re sponse. They then contacted Herman who suggested animation for the advertising spots. With the help of students and Herman they are now creating a 20-second spot for television. "Head Start and the Clackamas Community Library will help with the finances, and it should be finished by next summer," said McFadden, who is doing the art work and graphics for the project. Students in Audio/Visual are sometimes needed to narrate edu cational programs such as the recordings that were made for the welding department. These will consist of tapes to be played with slides used in class. Since Herman has been here, there has been a 350 percent increase in the department. Video tech has become a busy, thriving place. The College's video-tech de partment serves a dual purpose, according to Norm Herman, de partment head. "I believe we should render a service and teach the class both," said Herman. With his help, the video de partment has accomplished num erous projects fall term involving students, instructors and agencies in the Clackamas County area. The Principles of Advertising class, taught by Dollie Ammons did their final project with the assistance of the Video depart ment. They wrote a script and pre pared slides for a commercial on "Focus on Women," a series of lectures, films, and discussions for, by and about women. "We learned a lot about the time element involved in com mercials. It took about eight hours to produce the 30-second com mercial," said Sherry Whitmore, a student in the class. "We didn't accomplish all that we wanted to do, because of the time element, but we understand what should be done," she said. The nursing department has also taken advantage of the aid offered by the video department "The students must be quick in planning teaching activities. and sharp. They must be able to Students from the video class read body language and be per erected and acted out situations ceptive," Herman said. of a psychological nature for a "A student who is doing the test. Nancy McFadden, Steve Westby, Kathy Moreland and filming is just as important as the actor, he is the one who makes Bonnie Harvey were some of the students from the video depart him look good," he said. ment that created situation vic Steve Johnson, a graduate of tims, including such things as the College, is an example of the wife beating, depression and young successful students the program teens in trouble. turns out. Student nurses then tried to help or solve the problems. "It seemed real, as we were in character. The nurses' reactions were very good," McFadden said. "Some tried to dig into the history of the patient and others gave sound advice." According to Herman, instruc tors may take advantage of being able to record their lectures to be used in the classroom when they are absent. Some of the instructors have already been involved in this pro cedure. When Mike Aronson, physical science instructor, was attending a conference one day the class did not miss out on valuable lecture time. They just Page 2 "Since graduation, I became part of the classified staff," John son said. "Now I do maintenance every summer and I have been putting in the new cable system since 1972." While most of the projects done for the students and the county are used within the school and for educational programs in Clackamas County, occasionally the school is approached by people needing something for com mercial television. "We are constantly upgrading and rebuilding our system," said Herman. "There are opportunities for men and women both in tele vision and radio. We have several t* fl Photos by Lorrain! St graduates at KATU and some at KPTV television stations in Port land. Van Faulk is a former grad uate who is now in the White House working with their closed circuit system," Herman said. Danno Shaw and Mark Nugen (right) work in the control booth for the video-production they are producing. Danno Shaw (lower right) focuses color camera as Gary Eppelsheimer (lower left) zooms in on Mike Pasture at desk. Clackamas Community