What makes a good film, video or TV-program? This book (in Dutch only) takes up a conceptual perpective on audiovisual design, aiming at conveying knowledge, stories, meaning and emotions. A coherent approach is needed, based on well-substantiated design decisions and a consistent and well-grounded programme concept.
The purpose of the book is to organise the intuitive notions and experiences related to filmmaking into a systematic structure, and to link these elements to underlying theoretical concepts wherever possible. The first part (chapters 2 to 8) is largely reflective in nature and provides the theoretical basis for audiovisual design. The second part (chapters 9 to 15) focuses specifically on the design issue: production process, concept development, structure, presentation, image, sound, and synergy between the latter two.
AUDIOVISUEEL ONTWERPEN, THEORIE EN PRAKTIJK
Conceptontwikkeling voor film, video en televisie
Wim Westera
Uniepers Abcoude Publishers/Open University of the Netherland
ISBN 90 6825 164 3/NUGI 656 199
©1995
Althought the book strongly relies on scientific evidence accumulated from media research, it also rests for a great deal on the experiences and insights I’ve gathered during my engagement in creating audiovisuals. These include both promotional, informative and educational programmes, as well as the extensive science-documentary TV-series ‘Kwintessens” realised in the nineties.
| Title | Description | Role | Length | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University Computer Department | Informative video about the mainframe services of the University Computer Centre of the Technical University Eindhoven | Scenario Direction Music | 20 minutes | 1985 |
| Phase diagrams material sciences | Educational video of the Technical University Eindhoven | Scenario Direction | 10 minutes | 1985 |
| Optics: polarisation, birefringence, interference | Educational video clips about complex optical phenomena for students in physics. Technical University Eindhoven | Scenario Direction | 25 minutes | 1985 |
| Chemistry: Mass spectrometry, gas and liquid chromatography | Educational video clips about methods of chemical analysis. Technical University Eindhoven | Scenario Direction production | 23 minutes | 1985 |
| Linear robot arm | Educational video clip about high-recision robotics for mechanical engineering students. Technical University Eindhoven | Scenario Direction | 5 minutes | 1985 |
| There’s more about building than the building | Expert interviews on architecture. Technical University Eindhoven | Studio recording | 85 minutes | 1985 |
| MBA engineering | Expert interviews on MBA engineering. Technical University Eindhoven | Studio recording | 35 minutes | 1985 |
| Student science shops | Informative video on the students' science shop initiative. Technical University Eindhoven | Studio recording | 15 minutes | 1985 |
| Borderless TUE | Recording of student games event. Technical University Eindhoven | Field recording Editing | 25 minutes | 1985 |
| Information policy | Informative video on information policy. Technical University Eindhoven | Production | 12 minutes | 1985 |
| Technical Services Department | Promo video about the Technical Services Department of the Technical University Eindhoven | Production | 20 minutes | 1986 |
| Architecture | Promo video to inform potential students for the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University Eindhoven | Production | 45 minutes | 1986 |
| Perception | Educational video clips about human perception research at the Institute of Perception Research at Eindhoven | Production | 20 minutes | 1986 |
| Mathematics at work | TV-programme about the application of math in practice. Educom | Scenario Direction Music | 28 minutes | 1987 |
| Cryptography | TV-programme about cryptography. Educom | Scenario | 28 minutes | 1987 |
| Studying Physics in Eindhoven | Informative video for schools about studying physics at the Technival University Eindhoven. | Scenario Direction Production Editing Music | 30 minutes | 1987 |
| Human Anatomy and Physiology | Selected stock materials on human anatomy and physiology. Open University of the Netherlands | Selection Production | 46 minutes | 1988 |
| Interview methods | Educational video-cases with actors for psychology students. Open University of the Netherlands | Scenario Direction | 60 minutes | 1993 |
| Criminal case Ter Horst | Enacted medical dilemma case for law students. Open University of the Netherlands | Consultant | 55 minutes | 1992 |
| European environmental policies | One episode out of six TV-programmes on the topic. BBC | Consultant | 26 minutes | 1993 |
| Youth culture | Documentary about family conditions, for psychology students, Open University of the Netherlands | Consultant | 30 minutes | 1993 |
| Space tomato seeds | Educational video for school children about experiments in space, IVIO, Lelystad | Scenarion Direction Editing Production Music | 18 minutes | 1988 |
| Coatings plotter | Promotional video about coatings plotter system of Fasson | Scenarion Direction | 7 minutes | 1988 |
| Infusion methods | Educational video about infusion protocol, VU-Hospital Amsterdam | Scenarion Direction | 18 minutes | 1989 |
| Computers | Motivational video for PTT-staff about the significance of emerging computers, PTT Groningen | Scenarion Direction | 15 minutes | 1988 |
| Office automation | Educational video, Technical Film Centre Velp | Scenarion Direction | 28 minutes | 1988 |
| Naturalisation | Instructional videos for immigrants, CINOP, 's-Hertogenbosch | Scenario consultant | 60 minutes | 1998 |
| Week of Science | Report on national science event | Direction | 1985 | |
| Logic in plural | Portrait of Spinoza Price winner mathematician Johan van Benthem, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1996 |
| Time travellers | Documentary about the way historians rewrite history, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1996 |
| Media violence | Documentary about the socio-cultural impact of media, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1996 |
| Exo-planets, looking for the earth´s twin | Documentary about the search for planets outside the solar system, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1996 |
| Seeing is believing | Documentary about the implications of visualising molecules, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1996 |
| Raising children in the Netherlands | Documentary about the problems of upbringing in a diverse society, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1996 |
| On scientific grounds | Documentary about the splashing and ambitions of two young soil scientists, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1996 |
| Within the frame of Escher: graphics designer and mathematician | Documentary about the artwork of M.C. Escher, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1996 |
| Truth or faith: viewpoints in economic sciences | Documentary about the collapse of economic science, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1996 |
| Keys in economy | Documentary about the search for economic key determinants, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1996 |
| The greenhouse effect: science as the oracle? | Documentary about the never-ending dispute of climat scientists, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1996 |
| The power of figures | Documentary about the strengths and weaknesses of scientific figures, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1996 |
| A matter of chance | Documentary about the misleading appearances of statistics, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1996 |
| The truth and nothing but the truth… | Documentary about the fallacies in legal practice, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1996 |
| Slimming by hot air | Documentary about the effectiveness of special diet food, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1996 |
| Environmental biotechnology | Documentary about microbiological treatment of soil pollution, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1996 |
| The blue envelope | Documentary about the Dutch tax system, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1996 |
| Nationalism and identity | Documentary about the role of immigration on national identity, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1996 |
| Sovereignty under pressure | Documentary about the role of Europe on national sovereignty, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1996 |
| The economics of war and peace | Documentary about the cost effects of war and peace, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1996 |
| Innovation of the school system | Documentary about the new schools, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1996 |
| A new software crisis? | Documentary about software maintenance and reverse engineering, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1996 |
| Digital fraud | Documentary about security problems in IT applications, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1996 |
| Today’s youngsters | Documentary about young people in the Netherlands, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1996 |
| Technical complex projects | Documentary about the repetitive large infrastructural projects, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1996 |
| Fixing food | Documentary about the effectiveness of chemically augmented food, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1996 |
| Debt restructuring | Scripted TV lecture in the Felix Meritis building in Amsterdam, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1997 |
| Centuries of prostitution in Amsterdam | Scripted TV lecture in the Felix Meritis building in Amsterdam, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1997 |
| Gods and rulers in Mesopotamia | Scripted TV lecture in the Felix Meritis building in Amsterdam, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1997 |
| The benefit of infinity | Scripted TV lecture in the Felix Meritis building in Amsterdam, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1997 |
| Researching rust | Scripted TV lecture in the Felix Meritis building in Amsterdam, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1997 |
| The emergence of language | Scripted TV lecture in the Felix Meritis building in Amsterdam, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1997 |
| The end of school | Scripted TV lecture in the Felix Meritis building in Amsterdam, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1997 |
| Unheard-of language | Scripted TV lecture in the Felix Meritis building in Amsterdam, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1997 |
| Ethics | Scripted TV lecture in the Felix Meritis building in Amsterdam, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1997 |
| The evolution of laughter | Scripted TV lecture in the Felix Meritis building in Amsterdam, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1997 |
| Debt and penance | Scripted TV lecture in the Felix Meritis building in Amsterdam, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1997 |
| Virology | Scripted TV lecture in the Felix Meritis building in Amsterdam, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1997 |
| Trade in women and international law | Scripted TV lecture in the Felix Meritis building in Amsterdam, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1997 |
| The clean factory | Scripted TV lecture in the Felix Meritis building in Amsterdam, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1997 |
| The deadly environment | Scripted TV lecture in the Felix Meritis building in Amsterdam, Kwintessens TV-series, Teleac/Open University of the Netherlands | Editor-in-chief | 29 minutes | 1997 |
| RAGE teaser video on gamecomponents.eu | Explanatory video about the RAGE flagship project | Scenario Editing | 3 minutes | 2017 |