BLUE'S CLUES - Classic Clues - Nickelodeon DVD

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a b Dominguez, Noah (20 January 2021). "Blue's Clues Co-Creator Says She Has the Lost Pilot". CBR.com . Retrieved 4 June 2021. Moll, George (executive producer). "Behind the Clues: 10 Years with Blue" (2006). Short documentary. Countryline Productions.

Even though research demonstrated that children tend to pay less attention to adult male voices, Burns and Patton were chosen as the program's hosts because they were popular with their audience. [34] Daniel Anderson insisted that Burns and Patton were the best actors for their roles out of the hundreds who auditioned, calling them "actors who could mime as demanded by the mixed action and animation format", [60] and reported that there was no evidence that children paid less attention to them than to other parts of the program. [61] He also said that Burns and Patton overcame what he called "attentional bias against men" [60] in three ways: by behaving energetically and childlike; by breaking the fourth wall and talking directly to the audience, often by looking directly into the camera and asking their audience, "Will you help?", [30] and like Fred Rogers, forming a direct relationship to the audience; and by "always doing something". [60] Anderson insisted that by forming a relationship with the audience, the actors' male voice became cues to the audience to pay attention and stated that it was the hosts' style of presentation that determined child attention. [60] The 2002 studies demonstrated that experience with watching one TV series affects how children watch other programs, especially in the way they interact with them. [141] They also showed that since children are selective in the material they attend to and that their interaction increases with comprehension and mastery, children tend to pay more attention to novel information and interact more with material they have seen before and mastered. According to Crawley and her colleagues, Blue's Clues demonstrated that television could empower and influence children's long-term motivation for and a love of learning. As they stated, "One need only to watch children watch Blue’s Clues to realize that they respond to it with enormous enthusiasm". [146] Goodall, Gloria (29 September 2000). " 'Blue's Clues' Movie, a Video Treat". Christian Science Monitor . Retrieved 29 December 2021. Heffernan, Jennifer (26 January 2007). "Calling Blue: And on That Farm He Had a Cellphone". The New York Times . Retrieved 5 June 2021.Lawrie Mifflin (August 9, 1996). "U.S. Mandates Educational TV for Children". The New York Times. p.16 . Retrieved March 14, 2010. Adobe Systems was surprised that their products were being used in the production of a children's television show. According to Tracy, "Not even the developers of the software knew it could be used to create character animation on the scale Blue's Clues was using it", [109] Adobe later requested that the show's animators join their client development group, and made several changes and improvements to their software as a result. [109] a b c d e f g h i j Schmelzer, Randi (6 August 2006). "Tale of the Pup: Innovative Skein Leads Way to Preschool TV boom". Variety . Retrieved 6 June 2021. The pace of Blue's Clues was deliberate, and its material was presented clearly. [42] Similar to Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, [87] this was done was in the use of pauses that were "long enough to give the youngest time to think, short enough for the oldest not to get bored". [39] The length of the pauses, which was estimated from formative research, gave children enough time to process the information and solve the problem. After pausing, child voice-overs provided the answers so that they were given to children who had not come up with the solution and helped encourage viewer participation. Researcher Alisha M. Crawley and her colleagues stated that although earlier programs sometimes invited overt audience participation, Blue's Clues was "unique in making overt involvement a systematic research-based design element". [69] Blue's Clues also differed from Sesame Street by not using cultural references or humor aimed at adults, as this could confuse preschoolers but, instead, made the show literal, which the producers felt would better hold the children's attention. [88] The structure of each episode was repetitive, designed to provide preschoolers with comfort and predictability. [84] Repetition of the same skills used in different contexts or games within and across episodes encouraged the mastery of thinking skills and the approach to content within an episode was consistent with learning theory that emphasized situated cognition and provided all viewers, no matter their age or abilities, with repeated opportunities to try to solve the problems presented. [34] [89] Gladwell, Malcolm (2000). The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. New York: Little, Brown, and Company. ISBN 0-316-31696-2

Garcia, Cathy Rose A. (28 October 2013). "Meet the woman behind Blue's Clues, Cha-Ching". ABS-CBN Corporation. Quezon City, Philippines . Retrieved 6 June 2021. Weisman, Jon (2 August 2006). "Interactive innovator draws raves". Variety . Retrieved 28 July 2021.In 2002, Crawley, Anderson, and their colleagues conducted another study on the effects of Blue's Clues, this time researching whether more experienced viewers mastered the content and cognitive challenges faster and easier than first-time viewers. They surmised that experienced viewers would comprehend and interact more with the recurring and familiar segments of the show designed to aid comprehension, but they found that familiarity with the structure of an individual episode did not provide experienced viewers with an advantage over the inexperienced viewers. Crawley and Anderson also studied whether experienced viewers of Blue's Clues interacted more with other children's TV shows and whether the viewing behaviors they learned from Blue's Clues could be transferred to other shows. [151] [152] They found that although experienced viewers of Blue's Clues interacted with an episode of another series, they did not spend more time watching it than viewers unfamiliar with the show. The researchers stated, "It is apparent that, although preschoolers learn to enthusiastically engage in overt audience participation, they do not, by and large, have a metacognitive understanding of why they do so." [141] Blue's Clues for Success: The 8 Secrets Behind a Phenomenal Business". Publishers Weekly. 17 May 2002 . Retrieved 3 June 2021. Research was part of the creative and decision-making process in the production of the show, and was integrated into all aspects and stages of the creative process. Blue's Clues was the first cutout animation series for preschoolers in the United States and resembles a storybook in its use of primary colors and its simple construction paper shapes of familiar objects with varied colors and textures. Its home-based setting is familiar to American children, but has a look unlike previous children's TV shows. Pedersen, Erik (26 August 2019). " 'Blue's Clues & You' Teaser & Premiere Date: Ex-Hosts Return For First Episode". Deadline. Archived from the original on 2019-08-27 . Retrieved 29 December 2021.