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Directing the Story: Professional Storytelling and Storyboarding Techniques for Live Action and Animation

03 Jan

Product Description
Francis Glebas, a top Disney storyboard artist, teaches artists a structural approach to clearly and dramatically presenting visual stories. They will learn classic visual storytelling techniques such as conveying meaning with images and directing the viewer’s eye. Glebas also teaches how to spot potential problems before they cost time and money, and he offers creative solutions on how to solve them.

* Uses the classic… More >>

Directing the Story: Professional Storytelling and Storyboarding Techniques for Live Action and Animation

 

Writing and Community Action: A Service-Learning Rhetoric with Readings

03 Jan

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Writing and Community Action: A Service-Learning Rhetoric and Reader encourages inquiry into community and social action issues, supports community-based research, and shepherds students through a range of service-learning writing projects.   Several chapters offer pragmatic advice for crafting personal, reflective, and analytical essays, while service-learning chapters present experience-tested strategies for doing collaborative wri… More >>

Writing and Community Action: A Service-Learning Rhetoric with Readings

 

Going Public: An Organizer’s Guide to Citizen Action

03 Jan

Product Description
Urban decay can sap the determination—not to mention the soul—of anyone who experiences it. But there are forces that can and do reverse it. They are not spectators, or critics, or occasional demonstrators. They are groups of citizens, encouraged and trained to take power with dignity and creativity and unrelenting determination, and to make it work for them, day by day, month by month, and year to year.

For more than twenty-five years, Michael Gecan h… More >>

Going Public: An Organizer’s Guide to Citizen Action

 

Pop Sculpture: How to Create Action Figures and Collectible Statues

03 Jan

Product Description
Sculpt toys and collectibles with modern-day tools, techniques and applications used by today’s top industry professionals
 
Ever since a 12-inch G.I. Joe took toy soldiers to a whole new level by giving them the ability to pose via moveable parts, as well as interchangeable clothing and accessories, the business of creating pop sculpture icons for the mass market was off and running. Superheroes came next, followed by TV show and movie charac… More >>

Pop Sculpture: How to Create Action Figures and Collectible Statues

 

Actions: The Actors’ Thesaurus

03 Jan

Product Description
ACTIONS: The Actors’ Thesaurus is a vital companion for actors in rehearsal—a thesaurus of action words to revitalize performance. Actors need actions. Actors cannot ‘act’ adjectives, they need verbs. Verbs are an aim to achieve, an action to perform. ‘Actions’ are active verbs. ‘I tempt you.’ ‘You taunt me.’ In order to perform an action truthfully–and therefore convincingly– an actor needs to find exactly the right action to suit that … More >>

Actions: The Actors’ Thesaurus

 

Ethics in Action CD-ROM, Version 1.2, Stand-Alone Version

03 Jan

Product Description
This new CD-ROM adds another dimension of interactivity to your course! The ETHICS IN ACTION CD-ROM creates a helpful multimedia learning environment for your students. They’ll find insightful video clips and workbook exercises that help test their knowledge and skills for various ethical dilemmas. The CD-ROM contains a total of 60 minutes of video and has several reflective questions for each ethical dilemma presented. Each module begins with a Pre-Inventory that g… More >>

Ethics in Action CD-ROM, Version 1.2, Stand-Alone Version

 

Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law

03 Jan

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A petite single mother, Lois Jenson was among the first women hired by a northern Minnesota iron mine in 1975. In this brutal workplace, female miners were relentlessly threatened with pornographic graffiti, denigrating language, stalking, and physical assaults. Terrified of losing their jobs, the women kept their problems largely to themselves—until Lois, devastated by the abuse, found the courage to file a complaint against the company in 1984. Despite all of th… More >>

Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law