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EDITORIAL BOARD PROFILE Herb Zettl taught for 40 years in the Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts Department at San Francisco State University. His research emphases were, and still are, media aesthetics and video production. While at San Francisco State, he headed the Institute of International Media Communication (IIMC). The IIMC facilitates international visitors through the auspices of the U.S. State Department's International Information Programs and the San Francisco International Diplomacy Council, sponsors international visiting scholars, and gives occasional international summer workshops for television professionals. Dr. Zettl is one of the founders of the Annual Visual Communication Conference, a national conference for visual communication scholars. He received the California State Legislature Distinguished Teaching Award in 1966, and in 2004, the Distinguished Education Service Award of the Broadcast Education Association. Prior to joining the San Francisco State University faculty, Dr. Zettl worked at several professional television stations, including KPIX, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco, where he was a producer-director. He participated in numerous CBS and NBC network television productions, such as Edward R. Murrow's Person to Person and several network specials. He was inducted into the prestigious Silver Circle of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), Northern California Chapter, for his outstanding contributions to the television profession. He is also a member of NATAS Broadcast Legends. Dr. Zettl has been a visiting professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada; Heidelberg University in Heidelberg, Germany; the Institute for Television and Film in Munich, Germany, the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico, and the Communication University of China, Beijing. For one year he served as resident director in Germany for California State University students at Heidelberg and Tuebingen Universities. For several years he consulted as an academic specialist with broadcast institutions in various countries, frequently under the auspices of the U.S. State Department's International Information Programs. He also acted as consultant to a number of universities and professional broadcast institutions in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Southeast Asia. In his seminar on experimental production, Dr. Zettl spearheaded various experimental television productions, such as dramas for simultaneous multiscreens and inductive narrative presentation techniques. He has presented many papers on media aesthetics and video production for a variety of academic and professional media conventions both in this country and abroad. He has also published numerous articles, many of which were translated into foreign languages and/or published abroad. His books on television production and aesthetics, all published by Wadsworth/Thomson Publishing Company, include: Television Production Handbook, 9th ed., 2006; Television Production Workbook, 9th ed., 2006; Sight Sound Motion: Applied Media Aesthetics, 4th ed., 2005; Video Basics 5, 5th ed., 2007; and Video Basics Workbook 5, 5th ed., 2004. The Television Production Handbook, Sight Sound Motion, and Video Basics 3 have been translated into several foreign languages (including Spanish, Greek, Chinese, and Korean) and are used in key television production centers and universities around the world. Dr. Zettl developed with the Cooperative Media Group an interactive multimedia program Zettl's VideoLab 2.1, published by Wadsworth in 1995. This CD-ROM contains basic information on video production and interactive simulated production exercises. It won the Macromedia People's Choice Award and the following 1995 New Media Invision Awards: Gold Medal in the Best Higher Education category and Silver Medals in the Best Use of Video and Best Continuing Education categories. From A/V Video magazine, it won the Silver Medal, Best Product in Education and Training, 1995; and from the National Educational Media Network, the Bronze Apple Award, 1996. The new DVD edition of Zettl's VideoLab 3.0 has just been released by Wadsworth and includes several new features and a new module on switching. Zettl's Video Lab 3 was a finalist in the prestigious Software and Information Industry's CODiE Awards competition in 2005. Dr. Zettl has traveled extensively in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Southeast Asia. He is listed in Marquis Who's Who in the West, Marquis Who's Who in the Media and Communications, Who's Who in Education, Contemporary Authors, and International Biography. |
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