Introduction

After deciding the theme and format of the material to be produced, the practical steps of material development such as preparation and drafting of manuscripts and illustration, pretesting, etc. will start. The steps of material development are listed in the following flow chart:

 

1. Topic Selection
2. Format Selection
3. Content Arrangement
4. Script Preparation
5 Ilustration
6. Arrangement and Editing
7. Finalization of Title and Captions
8. Field Test non-book
9. Revision

Mass Production

In Part 4, the practical development process of representative materials from four categories of the formats are described step by step with matters to consider in each step as follows:

Printed book materials

(1) booklet

Printed non-book materials

(2) poster

Audio-visual materials (electronic & folk media)

(3) radio programme (electronic)
(4) slides and tape (electronic)
(5) video programme (electronic)
(6) puppet play (folk)
(7) Kamishibai: picture story-telling (folk)

Games and Others

(8) Sugoroku game
(9) Card pick-up game
(10) Simulation game