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Roll! Shooting TV News: Views from Behind the Lens | 
 enlarge | Author: Rich Underwood
Publisher: Focal Press
Category: Book
List Price: $44.95
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 348085
Media: Paperback
Pages: 416
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 1
ISBN: 0240808487
Dewey Decimal Number: 778.59
EAN: 9780240808482
ASIN: 0240808487
Publication Date: June 22, 2007
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Product Description
Roll! Shells fly overhead as night-scopes capture deadly fire fights with an eerie green hue, a category 5 hurricane devastates the Big Easy, hidden cameras enter a Cambodian village of brothels and a veteran journalist interviews himself throughout his own brain surgery. Part non-fiction drama, part trade publication, part text book, all woven together giving the reader a look through the viewfinders of the very best television photojournalists.
As 19 experts weigh in with their candid, personal stories and photographic tips, it's as if you're over their shoulders, following their intuitions and hearing their thoughts as they shoot. The trade term for what they do is called ENG (Electronic News Gathering) and whether they're called Cameramen, Backpack Journalists, Television Photographers or any other moniker de jour, they're all paid to bring the world's events into living rooms around the world. These are the men and women who capture the bleeding edge of history - as it happens.
Written in a smooth, unique interview style, this book is a necessary read for photojournalists, videographers and tv photojournalists.
*Interviews with successful, professional TV photojournalists will inspire you
*Lively tone conveys rich, practical know-how and peer advice from-the-trenches
*Explains video shooting techniques within the context of the broadcast news profession
*Loaded with hundreds of interesting photographs
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 not just a how to do tv November 20, 2007
John R. Treadgold
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was afraid it was just going to be another text book by someone who had a small TV background and then went into teaching. However, I was very interested to see the article on how the BBC photographers cover international news...(after all they invented it). The articles on network freelancers I would have liked to see expanded as this is now a major force in top TV coverage. I liked seeing the sidebars on the primary tools each person uses. The book has a blend of large and smaller market stories and is a good read. I wish it was longer! John Treadgold, news photographer
Excellent College Text August 26, 2007
Bob Lissit (Syracuse, NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Roll! is a terrific textbook for TV Reporting. If it's at all possible to teach shooting with a book, this is the book. A must for any college teaching TV news. Just the diagrams for different angles in Chapter 7 is nearly worth the price. Rather than drawing diagrams on a white board, just use the book. Properly organized, the book can take students from the first lesson through advanced shooting.
Bob Lissit
Journalism professor
S.I. Newhouse School
Syracuse University
Comprehensive and incredible November 5, 2007
Mr. Ben (mid-michigan)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Since I bought it, this book has been a hit with the photogs at the station I work at. I would recommend that working news photographers either get their own, or pool some money for at least a "staff" copy. It's a book you will casually pick up and wind up reading for the next hour (or as long as you can!) it's packed with great info, for just about any situation (it'll step you through focal lengths and later on it has info on how to shoot in a disaster. It doesn't matter if you're a student or a seasoned vet, you will find something interesting and valuable in this book (even if it's just to clarify and reflect your own thoughts on shooting).
Each chapter is written by or features a different photographer/TV news professional (there's a few reporters and producers mixed in, but all have strong visual backgrounds) and focuses on a certain aspect of shooting TV news. Whether its just the basics of story structure and editing, how to shoot a visually interesting interview, ethics, shooting sports, major disasters and "spot" news, One-man-bands, live shots, international stories (being embedded, international travel). And, of course, there is more.
I don't normally ooze praise like this, but this book is worth the fairly high price tag. Only one request: Why not include a DVD of pieces done by the great photographers featured in the book? That would really help, especially newer shooters to understand some of the concepts and to see what is possible when you are shooting to the Nth degree. After reading a section of this, you'll want to go out and shoot more than before. It's helped to replenish my desire to pursue this career when sometimes work seems to be getting stale.
BUY THIS BOOK
Inside the Mind of a News Shooter August 13, 2007
Joy Williams (Somerville, MA)
This is your mentor-in-a-box. It gets closer than any other book has to the instructive wisdom, creativity, ingenuity, and technical expertise inside the minds of some very important news shooters. I bet some of these guys wouldn't be able to articulate their own processes nearly as eloquently as Underwood has here. Worth every cent.
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