Course Overview
- Title:
- Video Storytelling with the Pros: Shooting Efficiently on Deadline
- Type:
- Seminar Snapshot
- Cost:
- $29.95
- Time Estimate:
- One hour and twenty minutes.
About Seminar Snapshots
A Seminar Snapshot features video highlights that capture the key learning of a seminar presentation.
How do you produce quality video stories on a deadline? What if the story direction changes unexpectedly? Learn how to efficiently use your time and a better approach to storytelling.
This Seminar Snapshot contains edited video highlights from a presentation by Nathan Thompson, 2012 Ernie Crisp Television News Photographer of the Year. Thompson talks about tips and tricks for being prepared for the unexpected during a video shoot for a daily story.
This Seminar Snapshot is part of a daylong workshop at Poynter Institute in partnership with the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) and National Press Photographers Foundation (NPPF) on Jan. 19, 2013. You can see all the on-demand replays from that event here: Video Storytelling with the Pros: Creativity on a Deadline
What Will I Learn:
- How to think about a story like a puzzle
- How to approach the story before and during the shoot
- How to efficiently edit a story in the edit bay
- How to use different styles of video capturing to draw audience into the story
Who should take this course:
Video, TV, multimedia and other journalists who want to tell more powerful stories every day, plus college educators who teach video journalism--and anyone who tells stories with pictures and sound.
Nathan Thompson
Nathan Thompson is a 10-time Emmy award winner and the NPPA's 2012 Ernie Crisp Television News Photographer of the Year. He started as a part-time photojournalist in late 2006 at WICD-TV. Nathan swiftly rose in the ranks there, becoming chief photographer in only a year. By late 2008 he transferred to WTVF-TV. The environment in that Nashville, Tenn., newsroom inspired Nathan to excel as a photojournalist and storyteller. Today, Nathan is applying the skills he acquired in news toward documentary and commercial film-making, for his production company Contrast Visuals & Consulting.
