Full Description
Television Field Production and Reporting provides a comprehensive introduction to the art of video storytelling. Endorsed by the National Press Photographers Association, this book focuses on the many techniques and tools available in today's digital landscape, including how drones and miniaturized technology can enrich the storytelling process. The new edition of Television Field Production and Reporting is an absolute must in this visually oriented, rapidly changing field. At its core, visual storytelling helps transmit information, expose people to one another, and capture and communicate a sense of experience in unforgettable ways. This edition reflects, through practitioners' eyes, how to achieve those goals and excel as a professional, whatever the medium at hand, even as changing technology revises the storyteller's toolkit. This edition emphasizes digital and emerging media, and includes new color photography relevant to contemporary visual storytelling and reporting. It also features important updates regarding digital media law which affect anyone who records and/or disseminates digital media content, whether in private, on television, the web, via social networking sites, or in commercial venues.
The seventh edition of Television Field Production and Reporting stresses the mastery of innovative storytelling practices in video programming as far ranging as electronic press kits, multi-camera production, stylized programs, corporate video, raw documentaries, and real time cinéma vérité.
Contents
Preface
About the Authors
Introduction
CHAPTER 1-Telling the Visual Story
CHAPTER 2-Planning and Shooting the Story
CHAPTER 3-Visual Grammar
CHAPTER 4-Video Editing: The Invisible Art
CHAPTER 5-Shooting Video in the Field
CHAPTER 6-Writing with Light
CHAPTER 7 -The Sound Track
CHAPTER 8-The Video Interview
CHAPTER 9-Writing the Package
CHAPTER 10-Write Like a Storyteller
CHAPTER 11-Producing the Story Minute by Minute
CHAPTER 12-How to Improve Your Storytelling Ability
CHAPTER 13-Improving On-Camera and Voice-Over Performance
CHAPTER 14-Digital Media Law
CHAPTER 15-Ethics: Defining Your Contract With Viewers
Glossary
Index
