Traveling publicity campaigns : $b educational tours of railroad trains and motor vehicles — John Shaqi
Traveling publicity campaigns : $b educational tours of railroad trains and motor vehiclesRoutzahn, Mary Swain
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Traveling publicity campaigns : $b educational tours of railroad trains and motor vehicles
Routzahn, Mary Swain
Educational exhibits, Traveling
It is usually a good idea to arrange what might be called a “unit”
program that will include everything that it is desirable for a given
visitor or group of visitors to do, see, and hear in order to fully
understand and enjoy the message. This unit program has an important
place in the arrangement of itinerary, schedule, and the arrangements
made for the attendance. For example, if the unit program lasts an
hour we have a means of deciding the number of times it needs to be
repeated in order to reach the desired number of visitors. If it lasts
two or three hours we are likely to find that in our advance work we
will need to make a greater effort to attract a carefully selected
audience, since the longer the program in most cases the fewer the
people who could enjoy it even once. The suggestions below have to
do with some of the factors to take into account in selecting and
combining features of this unit program.
Features intended wholly or mainly as attractions, such as music, or
dramatic or comic films, should not be placed in competition with
educational features for getting attention or holding interest. They
may be said to compete when they distract attention from the main topic
or take up an undue share of the time of visitors, or are so much more
popular in form than the educational topics as to be more talked about
and remembered afterward.
The program should be arranged so that the one idea or set of facts
which it is the purpose of the tour to deliver holds the center of
the stage at all times, and so that it commands attention whether it
takes the form of a talk or exhibit, or both. As has already been said,
the main idea should not be overshadowed or lost sight of through the
rivalry of other attractions. Finally, so that there may be no doubt
that it is understood and remembered, the main idea should be repeated
in different forms, in talks, demonstrations, exhibits, and printed
matter.
If the visitor is obliged to stand during all or the greater part of
the time he is not likely to give more than an hour of interested
attention to talks and displays. Many will give much less. The actual
period that the average visitors will remain under certain conditions
is soon learned by experimenting, and each feature should be timed so
that a satisfactory presentation of the subject can be assured for the
majority of them.
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