Bill Gentile's Essential Video Journalism Field Manual, Second Edition

Bill Gentile’s Essential Video Journalism Field Manual, Second Edition, is a how-to guide for anyone aspiring to speak the visual language that increasingly dominates today’s global exchange of information. Founded on a 40-year journalism and teaching career that parallels and embodies the technological revolution that made video journalism possible, Gentile’s Field Manual is a timeless resource for beginners as well as veteran practitioners of the craft. Follow him from the days of black-and-white film covering Nicaragua’s 1979 Sandinista Revolution to high-definition, digital video cameras documenting U.S. Marines in Afghanistan’s Helmand River Valley, to an iPhone 6+ making a film on Kichwa Indians and their spiritual relationship with the Amazon. Read this manual and learn to make powerful films! • Plus a bonus chapter by J. Bruce Jones on how to promote your video and make money after you finish producing it. In the Essential Video Journalism Field manual you will learn how to... • Articulate story ideas. • Capture powerful images and clean sound. • Recognize and cultivate dramatic story arcs. • Conduct compelling, in-depth interviews. • Write powerful treatments and scripts. • Narrate stories. • Edit for maximum impact. Included in the manual: • The ABCs of the Visual Language • Proposal, Controlling Ideas and Title • Clips to Story • The Six-Shot System • Rules on Shooting Video • How to Use a Tripod • Sound: the Heartbeat of Our Craft • Dramatic Arc • The Script, Writing to Pictures • Sample Scripts • Resources