Roll! Shooting TV News: Views from Behind the Lens

ISBN-13: 9781138442993 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Underwood, Rich

Opis

Part non-fiction drama, part trade publication, part text book, this title gives the reader a look through the viewfinders of the very best television photojournalists. Suitable for photojournalists, videographers and tv photojournalists, it features interviews with successful, professional TV photojournalists. It also includes photographs.

Recenzje

The only quibble I have with this excellent work is the title. This advice from some of the most outstanding video photojournalists in the industry is just as useful to the hundreds of former still photographers who now are moving into the video world and posting their work online. Roll! goes way behind theory to the The micro- specificshighlighter of how the best photojournalists do their work.
If you want to know the best lights, best microphones best tripod to use-it is in there. If you want to understand depth of field, motion and shot composition-it is in there. I have been around TV news for more than 30 years and found myself scribbling the pages with my highlighter pen so I could come back to Rich Underwood's advice again and again. This book is a winner.

Al Tompkins
Author, teacher, journalist
The Poynter Institute
St Petersburg, Florida


"The book is both a celebration of top-class news-based camerawork and an excellent primer on the logistics and practicalities of shooting news stories while maintaining high production values. Overall, the book is well structured, informative, and extremely well written, capturing the emotions as well as the technicalities, both on and off-camera, involved in getting the story from camera to screen."

Dudley Darby
Zerb
Guild of Television Cameramen
Spring 2008

Spis treści

The History of Television Photojournalism - From the Beginning; John DeTarsio, A Storyteller's Story; Larry Hatteberg, The Chain Of Command; Eric Kehe, The Photographic Department - People and Equipment; The Language of Lenses; Stephen Hooker, Camera Techniques for Spot News; Christian Parkinson, General News - From Kings to Commoners; Ray Farkas: Interviews - Talking Heads and Voyeurism; Corky Scholl, Feature Stories, B-Roll, Sequencing and Great Moments; Lisa Berglund, Truth and Filmmaking, Objective and Subjective Camerawork; Ian Pearson, Legalities and Ethics - Do the Right Thing; Mitchell Wagenberg, Covert Camera - The Fangs of the Fourth Estate; Heidi McGuire, The One - Woman - Band; Greg Stickney, Live - What TV News Does Best; Sam Allen, Get Into the Game - Athletic Photography; Brian Weister, Editing - A Cut Above; Mike Elwell: Embed - War Coverage; Bart Noonan, World Coverage - From the Top Down; David Hands, Freelancing in TV News; Rustin Thompson, From News to Independent Documentaries; Kevin Sites, The Future of Journalism
Parting Shots; Appendix A Video Formats; Appendix B Setting Up a Video Monitor; Appendix C More on Lighting; Appendix D RCFP First Amendment Handbook;
Appendix E RTNDA Code of Ethics; Appendix F NPPA Code of Ethics; Appendix G Sound

O autorze

Rich Underwood teaches Advanced Cinematography at San Diego State University in California. He is a working director and cinematographer. More about the author's production work can be found on www.filmspot.tv.