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ideo staff edits

Cox production

“Hi, I’m Dave Weller, and the names and credits
I’m Terri H art, Welcome onto the screen. I liked
to Ralston High To­ my job, but it was very
night!” nerve-wracking to try
and do many things at
No, Dave Ebmeier and once.”
Terri Wachtler didn’t take
over the set of “Entertain­
ment Tonight”, but they
did borrow its format.
“We decided that we
wanted to do something
different with the video
yearbook this year, so we
decided to go with a “Hol­ Senior Karin Sgroi fills out a
lywood Theme”, Senior yearbook print request form at the
David Ebmeier said. light table in Room 405.
Junior Peg Luebbert Karin Sgroi was the program
agreed, “We also wanted to director and Sophomore Dawn
stray away from using too Krai was in charge of the audio
many special effects, be­ during the Cox Cable taping of
cause we seemed to over “Ralston High Tonight”.
use them last year.”
“I tried to think of some
good theme ideas to start
off the videOj and I came
up with the idea to do a
take-off of the movie
“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’
and television news
magazine “Entertainment
Tonight”. After some dis­
cussion with Journalism
Adviser Nancy Rice, and
PHOTOGRAPHERS Video Technical Adviser
Front Row: Tracy Petersen 2nd Row: David Ebmoier, Kelly
Boggs, Karin Sgroi, Brandon Speck Back Row: Craig Tay­ Vem Goff, the Video Staff
lor, Jon Chavez decided to use Cox Cable’s
public access studio for a
more professional-looking
show. “We went down to
Cox, and everybody had a
specific job, be it camer-
aperson, floor director,
character generator or on-
camera talent. It was
interesting to see how a
professional program is
made,” Luebbert said.
Because of all the extra
technical jobs, most of the
regular yearbook staff was
needed to help, including
people who had never
touched a video camera in
their lives. Sophomore
Pam Melichar learned how
to operate a video camera.
“It was a really new expe­
rience for me, especially
since I became a camera
VIDEO PHOTOGRAPHERS operator, and had had no
Front Row: Karin Sgroi, Peggy Luebbert Back Row: David prior experience in photog­
Ebmeier, Brandon Speck, Craig Taylor raphy; but I had a lot of
fun,” Melichar said.
Megan Palensky, who
learned how to use a
character generator, had
similar thoughts on the
In 1968-1969, yearbooks were 65.50 and books with a namestamp matter: “I put everything
were $6.00: into sequence, and typed

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