Designed to assist teachers and media professionals in the development of media presentations that can creatively capture learner attention, this manual provides step-by-step instructions for preparing materials using a dry mount press, copy machines, and cassette tape recordings. Sources of visual materials are suggested, the equipment needed, and general instructions for using the dry mount press are given, as well as the purpose, specific instructions, evaluation, and ideas for projects using dry mounting tissue, chartex, fotoflat, laminating, and lifting. General information on copy machines is followed by specific instructions for paper copies, transparencies, spirit duplication, mimeographic duplication, and laminating original materials; evaluation criteria are given. Guidelines for taping using a microphone include the selection of a recording location, placement of the microphone, making the recording, adding music, patch cord recording, playback, and recording topics and ideas. (MER)