Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Telling the Visual Story; Through Stories We Share Human Experience and Understanding; The Differences Between Visual Stories and Reports; Heart, Emotion, Demeanor; Toward a Philosophy -- Placing the Human Perspective in Perspective; Telling Versus Showing; The Value of Visual Narrative; Silence as a Writing Tool; The Silent Languages of the Senses; Putting It All Together; Culture Impacts Perception; Summary; Discussion; Exercises; Notes.

Chapter 2 Planning and Shooting the StoryThe Best Stories Convey a Sense of Progression; Find Images That Convey a Clear Story Focus; Write the Pictures First; Reportorial Editing; Working as Part of a Team; Prove the Story's Focus Visually; The Focus May Change; Look for a Story Focus in Events with Uncontrolled Action; Tell Your Story Through People; Strong Natural Sound Helps Tell the Story; Build in Surprises; Keep Sound Bites Short; Address the Larger Issue; Challenge Your Focus Statement; Video Packages Are Factual Mini-Movies; The Lead; Provide Visual Proof for All Main Points.

The CloseBe Hard On Yourself as a Writer; Write from the Visuals; Look for a Story While Capturing Uncontrolled Action; Look for the Larger Story; Summary; Key Terms; Discussion; Exercises; Notes; Chapter 3 Visual Grammar; The Shot; The Sequence; Basic Shots; Long Shot; Medium Shot; Close-Up; How the Basic Shots Work Together; Camera Movement; Pan; Moving Shot; Combination Shot; Tilt Shot; Tracking Shot; Trucking Shot; Dolly Shot; Changes in Camera Perspective; Stabilize Shaky Images; Storytelling Shots; One Shots to Crowd Shots; Master Shot with Cut-Ins; Overlapping Action.

Shooting Matched-Action SequencesJump Cuts; The Cutaway; The Motivated Cutaway; The Transition or Reveal Shot; Using Camera Movement to Enhance Storytelling; Point-Of-View Movement; Thinking Camera; Screen Direction; How to Avoid the False Reverse; Vary Camera Angles; Photograph People at Eye Level; Angles Provide Psychological Impact; Contrast and Comparison; Composition; Summary; Key Terms; Discussion; Exercises; Notes; Chapter 4 Video Editing: The Invisible Art; Editing Is Another Writing Tool; Toward a Philosophy of Editing; Everyone Is an Editor; The Cut; Choosing Edit Points.

There Can Be No Matched Action Without Overlapping ActionCutting On Action or At Rest; Into-Frame/Out-Of-Frame Action; Jump Cuts; Pop Cuts; Devices to Compress Time and Advance the Action; Parallel Cutting; Shot Order Impacts the Illusion of Continuity; Content Dictates Pace; Cutting to Condense Time; Composition Affects Pace; Screen Direction; Editing to Eliminate the False Reverse; The Transition Shot; Sound as a Transitional Device; Cold Cuts; Flash Cuts; Cutting to Leave Space for Audience Reaction; Communication Pays; Dissolves and Other Optical Effects; Summary; Key Terms; Discussion.

"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."--Provided by publisher.