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This definitive handbook explains how a script is transformed into a motion picture or television program. Readers will learn the methodology and craft of the script supervisor, who ensures that the continuity of a film, its logical progression, is coherent.



The book teaches all vital script supervising functions, including how to:
.prepare, or "break down" a script for shooting
.maintaining screen direction and progression
.matching scenes and shots for editing
.cuing actors
.recording good takes and prints
preparing time and log sheets for editing

This revision of an industry classic has been updated to reflect changes in the film industry in recent years, including the use of electronic media in the script supervisor's tasks. While it is written for the novice script writer, it can serve as a valuable resource for directors, film editors, scriptwriters and cinematographers..
Price: $28.11 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Designed for managers, this insightful handbook contains 27 specific guidelines on retaining good employees, maintaining morale in the face of change, and attaining the performance results a manager expects from his or her work group. Business as UnUsual teaches managers how to become a change agent, rebuild morale, pass out "psychological paychecks", re-recruit good people, take care of "me" issues, ride "close herd" on transition and change, and avoid common pitfalls in times of change. .
Price: $2.50 [Notify me when price goes down.]

For courses in Police Supervision, Human or Organizational Behavior, and Ethics.

 

Using an exploratory and interactive structure, this introduction to police supervision covers all the latest supervisory concepts and practices with an emphasis on character, teamwork, and conflict resolution. Boasting a 15-responsibility organization, the Sixth Edition implements self-discipline, self-restraint, & self-reliant through Team Fundamentals, Team Development, and Teamwork..
Price: $65.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]

The Good Supervisor engages readers in dialogue and active reflection on the strategies of effective supervision of PhDs, postgraduate and undergraduate research. Accessibly written, it encourages supervisors to reflect on and enhance their research supervision practice with a diversity of students on a variety of research projects: Postgraduate and undergraduate levels, international and distance students; practice and professional research; research leading to creative process and products/creations; the PhD by publication; supervising your colleagues; interpersonal skills; managing diversity in learning styles, gender, age and culture. The book is also useful for students undertaking research. There is special focus on research skills development.and on supporting students through and beyond the examination process.
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Price: $16.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]

"This publication represents a thorough updating of an earlier book that was, in its own right, very useful. The second edition ..is a significant improvement on its predecessor and I cannot recommend it highly enough for novice or experienced doctoral supervisors."
Journal of Adult and Continuing Education

• How can I get my students to produce good theses on time?
• My last student failed! What could I have done to prevent it?
• I am supposed to train the new supervisors in my faculty; where can I get some good ideas?

This new edition of Supervising the Doctorate still provides everything you ever wanted to know about the doctoral supervision but were afraid to ask! It includes:

• New material on supervising professional doctoral theses
• A new chapter on the changing policy context in higher education
• Latest research findings
• Experiential material from staff development sessions throughout the United Kingdom and New Zealand

Now that supervisor training is compulsory, this practical, no-nonsense handbook is essential reading for both the novice and the experienced higher degree supervisor. For novices there is a developmental sequence of advice, guiding them through all stages of supervision from the first meeting to the viva and beyond. For experienced supervisors there are fresh ideas on how to improve practice and solve problems.

Grounded in research, this book is invaluable to academics in all disciplines. At a time when there is increasing pressure to ensure 'quality' provision, to improve the doctoral completion rate, and to turn out employable graduates, the need for a practical guide is obvious. An essential item for every academic's bookshelf..
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