Thursday, March 28, 2019

Visual Stories

Here is a link to our weekly TV news show:

https://video.kqed.org/show/kqed-newsroom/

Years ago, when at CIR, I worked on a story called Operation Wigwam, with colleagues, I started using film clips to inform my writing style. Then came my years in Hollywood, writing stories, screenplays and consulting.

The thing about TV and movies is that the story has to keep moving. It is a linear equation -- left to right. It cannot ever really stop.

Like life, until it does.

So whenever you are producing for TV, you have to be able to imagine the visual arc of the story in question. It is the same, of course, with online videos, which I also supervise at KQED.

What is the visual story?

 That is the question.

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