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
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"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
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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.
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