Editing Illustrated Books
Dates:
10-11 November 2010; 3-4 February & 24-25 November 2011 (a two-day course)
Price:
£719+VAT (a number of discounts are available)
Note: Our rates will be changing in 2011. If you book before 31/12/2010 you will be charged the 2010 rate.
Venue:
The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels)
Book course online or phone +44 (0)20 8874 2718 for availability
"I have acquired excellent techniques for writing captions and how to discuss problems with designers. The course was excellent – just the right level of teaching and interaction with other delegates."
Random House delegate
If you edit illustrated books you need a range of extra skills to supplement those taught on the popular Copy-Editing Skills course.
These include:
- additional scheduling
- writing and editing captions
- briefing artwork and photography
- checking page design
- liaising with the media, picture researchers and designers
- dealing with permissions and credits.
On this course you will be given expert guidance and tried-and-tested working methods that make projects involving illustrated matter easier to manage.
Programme
Day One
- Publishing sequence
- Scheduling
- Budgeting
- Editing for international, co-editions, multiple markets
- Introduction to illustrations: vocabulary, purposes and types
- Illustration lists
- Working with picture researchers
- Working with designers
Day Two
- Flat planning
- Briefing and checking artwork
- Commissioning photos
- Choosing photos; cropping
- Writing captions
- Checking illustrated proofs
- Cutting
- Filling
- Adjusting pages
- Permissions, credits, copyright.
Who will benefit from this course?
Anyone who is involved in the development of published materials that include illustrations. This will include editorial assistants, copy-editors, desk editors, proofreaders, development editors, commissioning editors and freelances.
Your tutor
Sonia Clark has worked in editorial teams for several major UK and international educational publishers. In 2003 she started working as a freelancer. She now works as a freelance publishing trainer, copy-editor, proofreader, project manager and publisher. Sonia has experience of editing and publishing illustrated books, CD-ROMs and online materials on a variety of subjects at primary, secondary and tertiary level. She has run author workshops in the UK, Africa and the Caribbean and as a qualified teacher she has taught in schools and colleges in Hampshire at secondary and tertiary level.
Note that most of our short courses can also be run as in-company events.
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Dates: 10-11 November 2010; 3-4 February & 24-25 November 2011
Price: £719+VAT (a number of discounts are available).
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