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Videojournalism: Multimedia Storytelling

Videojournalism: Multimedia Storytelling

Ken Kobre's groundbreaking new textbook teaches students and professionals how to shoot, edit and produce high-quality videojournalism stories. (Focal Press)
Kenneth Kobré’s groundbreaking new textbook, “Videojournalism: Multimedia Storytelling” (Focal Press) features sixteen richly illustrated chapters that provide detailed practical lessons in shooting, editing, producing and distributing the kind of high-quality videojournalism that is showcased in KobreGuide.com:

1 Telling Stories
2 Finding and Evaluating a Story
3 Successful Story Topics
4 Producing a Story
5 Camera Basics
6 Camera Exposure and Handling
7 Light and Color
8 Recording Sound
9 Combining Audio and Stills
10 Shooting a Sequence
11 Conducting an Interview
12 Writing a Script
13 Editing the Story
14 Ethics
15 The Law

16 Marketing a Story

Students and professionals alike will learn how to find a riveting story; gain access to charismatic characters who can tell their own tales; shoot candid clips; expertly interview the players; record clear, clean sound; write a script with pizzazz; and, finally, edit the material into a piece worthy of five minutes of a viewer’s attention… while never losing sight of the main point: telling a great story.

The book is based on extensive interviews with (and contributions from) top professionals in the field. It is for anyone learning how to master the art and craft of telling real short-form stories with words, sound and pictures for the Web or television. The opening chapters cover the foundations of multimedia storytelling, and the book progresses to the techniques required to shoot professional video, and record high quality sound and market the resulting product.

Most importantly, the book does not lose sight of the fundamental and enduring principals of JOURNALISM — reporting, interviewing, writing, editing, and storytelling — that will serve students well not only in producing quality videojournalism, but also throughout their careers, despite the rapidly changing technology scene.

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Every multimedia story mentioned in the book can be easily found online by going to one special Web page, where you will also find various “how-to” video tutorials and interviews with leading practitioners.

Additionally, you can keep up with the latest changes in the rapidly evolving field (new cameras, books, editing software, etc.) by checking the KobreGuide to the Web’s Best Videojournalism Website, and also “Liking” the KobreGuide Facebook Page.

This book owes much of its depth and breadth to the eight contributors who each wrote chapters:
* Stan Heist , executive producer, Maryland Newsline, and adjunct professor, University of Maryland
* Kathy Kieliszewski, Deputy Director of Photo and Video, Detroit Free Press
* Jerry Lazar , executive editor, KobreGuide.com
* Regina McCombs, faculty for Multimedia and Mobile, The Poynter Institute
* Josh Meltzer, photojournalist-in-residence at Western Kentucky University, formerly with the Roanoke Times
* Mary Thorsby, independent business writer, Thorsby and Associates
* David Weintraub, instructor, Visual Communications Sequence, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of South Carolina
* Donald R. Winslow, editor, News Photographer magazine