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Make It Memorable


Make It Memorable

Writing and Packaging Visual News with Style
2. Second Edition

von: Bob Dotson

36,99 €

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 16.10.2015
ISBN/EAN: 9781442256125
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 156

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<span><span>“All the cutting edge technology I learned in college—typewriters, film splicers, glue—is now in a museum; the one thing that hasn’t changed is how to tell a visual story.”—Bob Dotson<br><br></span><span>Make It Memorable </span><span>provides a distinctly different, hands-on introduction to the craft of visual storytelling. Many texts have been written to help people master the changing technology of journalism; here, Bob Dotson teaches readers how best to tell a story once they do. <br><br>This second edition of Dotson’s classic book offers dozens of new tips for the digital age and a step-by-step explanation of how to find and create all kinds of visual stories under tight deadlines. In addition to new scripts annotated with behind-the-scenes insights and structural comments, the book includes links to online videos of all the story examples. <br><br>There is no other text quite like it.<br><br>Additional videos that can be utilized for class assignments and exercises are available on </span><span><a href="http://www.nbclearn.com/makeitmemorable"><span>www.nbclearn.com/makeitmemorable</span></a></span><span>.</span></span>
<span><span>A nuts-and-bolts guide to the craft of visual storytelling, written for students and up-and-coming journalists by one of the country’s best-loved news correspondents.</span></span>
<span><span>Chapter 1: How to Become a Storyteller</span></span>
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<span><span>Reporting vs. Storytelling</span></span>
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<span><span>The Rule of Threes and Filling the Silence</span></span>
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<span><span>The Question That is Not a Question</span></span>
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<span><span>Script #1: Lives Lost</span></span>
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<span><span>The Most Important Thing You Should Do Before an Interview</span></span>
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<span><span>The Best Thing You Can Do After an Interview</span></span>
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<span><span>How to Quickly Write a Good Opening Line</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 2: The Game of What If?</span></span>
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<span><span>Hey. You. See. So.</span></span>
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<span><span>Script #2: Pops Dream</span></span>
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<span><span>Surprises</span></span>
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<span><span>Script #3: Farm to Fame</span></span>
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<span><span>Humor</span></span>
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<span><span>Structuring a Visual Story</span></span>
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<span><span>Planning Notes for YouTube Star Segment</span></span>
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<span><span>What Went on the Cutting Room Floor</span></span>
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<span><span>Script #4: YouTube Star</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 3: Getting Started</span></span>
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<span><span>Look for Different Ways to Tell Your Story</span></span>
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<span><span>Script #5: Found Art</span></span>
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<span><span>Find a Strong Central Character</span></span>
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<span><span>Script #6: Park Avenue Peeler</span></span>
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<span><span>Find Interesting Stories and People to Interview, Even When Time and Money are Tight</span></span>
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<span><span>Script #7: Living Ghost Town</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 4: I’m Sorry This Story Is So Long. I Didn’t Have Time to Write a Short One.</span></span>
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<span><span>Pictures Come First</span></span>
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<span><span>Write the Middle of Your Story Next</span></span>
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<span><span>Ask Yourself, “What Does This Mean?”</span></span>
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<span><span>Don’t Throw Away Thoughts</span></span>
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<span><span>Script #8: Cave Rescue</span></span>
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<span><span>Highlight a Story’s Natural Drama</span></span>
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<span><span>Working Fast</span></span>
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<span><span>Script #9: Ruby Bridges</span></span>
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<span><span>Scene Setting</span></span>
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<span><span>Foreshadowing</span></span>
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<span><span>Conflict</span></span>
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<span><span>Character Growth</span></span>
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<span><span>Resolution</span></span>
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<span><span>Put Stories into Context</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 5: The Building Blocks of a Story</span></span>
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<span><span>Words</span></span>
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<span><span>Video</span></span>
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<span><span>Silence</span></span>
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<span><span>Natural Sound</span></span>
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<span><span>Sound Bites</span></span>
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<span><span>Reporter On-Camera Stand-Up</span></span>
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<span><span>Graphics</span></span>
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<span><span>Script #10: Pearl Harbor’s Untold Story</span></span>
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<span><span>Editing Stories</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 6: A Survival Kit for Professional Storytellers in the Social Media Age</span></span>
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<span><span>The “So What” Test</span></span>
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<span><span>“One Thing is Certain . . .”</span></span>
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<span><span>You Are Not the Story</span></span>
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<span><span>It’s Video Folks, Not the Movies</span></span>
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<span><span>Be Conversational</span></span>
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<span><span>Gobbledygook and Clichés</span></span>
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<span><span>Active Voice</span></span>
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<span><span>Write in Threes</span></span>
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<span><span>How to End a Story</span></span>
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<span><span>Car Wars</span></span>
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<span><span>A Final Thought</span></span>
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<span><span>Appendix: Reporter’s Checklist</span></span>
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<span><span>Glossary of Script Cues</span></span>
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<span><span>Acknowledgments</span></span>
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<span><span>Index</span></span>
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<span><span>About the Author</span></span>
<span><span>Bob Dotson, </span><span>Special Correspondent for the NBC </span><span>Today </span><span>show, has more than forty years of experience in the field of broadcast journalism. His long running “American Story” segment is one of the most honored series in network television history, winning more than 100 awards, including eight Emmys. In addition, Dotson has received more than seventy awards, including six Edward R. Murrow Awards for “Best Network News Writing”, the top journalism awards from both DuPont-Columbia and the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation, numerous National Headliner Awards and “the highest honor in the field of photojournalism,” the Sprague Memorial Citation from the National Press Photographers Association. He is also recipient of the William Allen White Foundation’s 2015 National Citation for long-standing journalistic excellence in service to the profession and community.</span></span>
<span><span>New script annotations highlight how the advice offered in the text is applied in the context of real stories</span></span>

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