Word: visual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first generation of how-to tapes has not exactly advanced the video art form. Some use a celebrity host to liven up a dry presentation; more often an anonymous lecturer is aided only by crude graphics or amateurish dramatizations. Attempts to make the material more "visual" are frequently awkward. First Aid: The Video Kit, produced by the American Red Cross and CBS/ Fox Video, buries its valuable information amid hokey sketches in which two couples are instructed in proper first-aid techniques by a helpful neighbor...
...amateur chef watching a cooking tape--like Wok Before You Run, with Chinese Chef Stephen Yan as host--can see, and not just read, what his concoction is supposed to look like. The World's Greatest Photography Course, presented by Photographer Lief Ericksenn, uses lucid narration and lots of visual examples to demonstrate, not just how to pick a proper f-stop or choose a lens, but subtler matters such as how to recognize a good picture and how to compose one. How to Watch Pro Football, produced by the National Football League, uses illuminating stop-action photography and expert...
...ampoon humor has become more visual. People here grew up on Saturday Night Live so that's what we're likely to think of as experimental new comedy, and as a result a lot of the pieces are TV situation comedy oriented," says recently retired two term Lampoon President Conan C. O'Brien...
...years up to the early 70's for more attention was paid to the text-in reworking things, editing and even proof reading-and the emphasis was on word play and puns," he adds, "In other words the work moved from verbal to visual...
...Brien says that the trend among graduates away from straight prose writing and toward work in visual communications reflects a necessity as much as a choice...