Video Shooter 2nd Edition Released October 19

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After months of work the second edition of Video Shooter is now a reality. With photos from recent projects in India and Africa and updated references to the latest cameras and tapeless workflows, Video Shooter 2 will provide if nothing else hours of entertaining reading. I tried to make my lessons and insights fun, as video storytelling and life in general should be. It’s not a technical book although it can be technical at times. It’s really a book about framing the world and communicating with a camera. Ultimately it’s about  telling compelling stories – which is all your audience cares about anyway.

In a way you could say I’m an anti-nerd nerd. I despise technical discussions in general, although I understand and can fully appreciate the video artist with technical proficiency and mastery of his tools. That’s one of the major lessons in Video Shooter: from a technical perspective the video storyteller only needs to know what he needs to know. Anything beyond what the audience requires to experience a good story is pure geekiness.

19 Comments

  • Steve , November 5, 2009

    I’m previewing your 2nd edition and have tried to check out the companion website, but haven’t been able to get there yet. Any suggestions on how to get tot he site? So far so good on the book, but I would love to see the site before I adopt it for my classes.

  • admin , November 9, 2009

    Thanks. Steve. The website with tutorial lessons will be live shortly as I continue to develop the video lessons which you will be able to download. By the way I’m currently on a tour of schools across the U.S. conducting free workshops based on many of the concepts and themes explored in Video Shooter. These workshops underwritten by Panasonic Broadcast and Focal Press might be of interest to you. Where do you teach and where are you located?

  • Debbie Shulins , December 24, 2009

    I love the last sentence! Too many people confuse storytelling with technological advances. A storyteller’s power lies in simplicity and the ability to tell a universal tale.

  • River King , February 3, 2010

    Borrowed the first edition from the library. Realised I must have my own copy of the second edition Its got so much more. I love it.
    At the age of 66, living in UK, I am just starting out on film making and have found your book invaluable. There is nothing else like it.
    Look forward to the website lessons.

    Thank you

    River

  • admin , February 10, 2010

    Thanks River for your kind comments. I’m getting a fantastic response to the second edition of my book. What kinds of projects do you anticipate shooting?

  • Micha Grillo , February 16, 2010

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  • admin , February 17, 2010

    Thanks Micha. Glad to have you aboard. What kinds of projects are you working on?

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  • admin , February 20, 2010

    Thanks for your kind words. Be sure to check out my webcast from Cairo Egypt on March 11 at 2 PM ET. You can sign up here:

    https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=192810&sessionid=1&key=C1F6468DED108FA4B2A7EB7BECA276C4&partnerref=mmAJAsecrets1&sourcepage=register

    I’ll be discussing the challenges of working and traveling with tapeless gear these days, looking specifically at HDD field recorders like the AJA Ki Pro, battery and cabling requirements, various storage device options including solid-state drives, in other words, everything associated with the tapeless workflow quagmire. Should be interesting trying to pull this off from the base of the Pyramids. Hopefully my Egyptian cell phone will hold out for the whole hour!

  • Michelle , April 19, 2010

    Thanks for your kind words. Be sure to check out my webcast from Cairo Egypt on March 11 at 2 PM ET. You can sign up here:

    https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=192810&sessionid=1&key=C1F6468DED108FA4B2A7EB7BECA276C4&partnerref=mmAJAsecrets1&sourcepage=register

    I’ll be discussing the challenges of working and traveling with tapeless gear these days, looking specifically at HDD field recorders like the AJA Ki Pro, battery and cabling requirements, various storage device options including solid-state drives, in other words, everything associated with the tapeless workflow quagmire. Should be interesting trying to pull this off from the base of the Pyramids. Hopefully my Egyptian cell phone will hold out for the whole hour!

  • Adam , April 24, 2010

    Borrowed the first edition from the library. Realised I must have my own copy of the second edition Its got so much more. I love it.
    At the age of 66, living in UK, I am just starting out on film making and have found your book invaluable. There is nothing else like it.
    Look forward to the website lessons.

    Thank you

    River

  • Joseph , April 25, 2010

    I love the last sentence! Too many people confuse storytelling with technological advances. A storyteller’s power lies in simplicity and the ability to tell a universal tale.

  • Kelly , April 26, 2010

    I want to thank the blogger very much not only for this post but also for his all previous efforts. I found http://www.barrybraverman.com to be very interesting. I will be coming back to http://www.barrybraverman.com for more information.

  • Sean , April 26, 2010

    With out a doubt, the article is truly the greatest on this laudable topic. I concur with your conclusions and willdesperately look forward to your upcoming updates. Just saying thanks will not be enough, for the extraordinary clarity in your writing. I will immediately grab your rss feed to stay abreast of any updates. Sound work and much success!

  • Joseph , April 27, 2010

    With out a doubt, the article is truly the greatest on this laudable topic. I concur with your conclusions and willdesperately look forward to your upcoming updates. Just saying thanks will not be enough, for the extraordinary clarity in your writing. I will immediately grab your rss feed to stay abreast of any updates. Sound work and much success!

  • Bruce , May 21, 2010

    Thanks for your kind words. Be sure to check out my webcast from Cairo Egypt on March 11 at 2 PM ET. You can sign up here:

    https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=192810&sessionid=1&key=C1F6468DED108FA4B2A7EB7BECA276C4&partnerref=mmAJAsecrets1&sourcepage=register

    I’ll be discussing the challenges of working and traveling with tapeless gear these days, looking specifically at HDD field recorders like the AJA Ki Pro, battery and cabling requirements, various storage device options including solid-state drives, in other words, everything associated with the tapeless workflow quagmire. Should be interesting trying to pull this off from the base of the Pyramids. Hopefully my Egyptian cell phone will hold out for the whole hour!

  • Heidi , June 2, 2010

    Hi Barry
    I have now purchased the 2nd edition as well as I saw from the TOC that there were new topics that would be of interest. Somehow I managed to register at Elsevier (got the URL by looking at the source code of the flashing screen). But there were no resource files. Any idea of when that would come? I am particularly interested in the extra chapter on DVDs etc. Perhaps one could get a copy as a pdf in the meantime?
    Thanks
    Heidi

  • admin , July 22, 2010

    Mary
    Sorry for the ridiculous long delay in getting back to you. I’ve been traveling overseas and am way behind answering reader queries. If you’re primarily shooting for the web you should shoot 30p since most web video is displayed at 15 FPS – an easy conversion. If your mostly outputting to DVD or Blu-ray then 24p makes more sense since there formats are natively stored on the disc at 24 FPS.

    As a PC user I recommend Adobe Premiere which is very efficient and relatively easy to use. It is considered a professional program however and so may offer many more features than you currently need. The Adobe Suite which includes Premiere and Encore DVD is well worth the investment and will allow you a complete end-to-end solution. The educational price on the Adobe Suite is very reasonable IMHO.

    My recommendations for a camera really depend on your intended use and budget. I strongly suggest a tapeless model, which greatly facilitates workflow, improves reliability and saves a lot of time in general. The AVCHD or AVCCAM models would seem to be the most appropriate for you, but I’ll have to learn more of your intended application before I can specify a particular model.

    Where are you located? I conduct regular seminars around the country and world so perhaps there is a way we can arrange with Panasonic or Canon’s help a workshop in your area. Please let me know.

  • Mary , September 18, 2010

    I’m in a little town just outside of Austin, Texas so I could attend one in Austin.

    It’s been a slow process for me, getting everything necessary to shoot video. I went with the Panasonic HDC TM700 and haven’t done much with it since I haven’t gotten the editing software yet. I had to get another laptop since my current one didn’t have the necessary requirements to work with a bunch of video files. Next step is the software and I think I will go with the Adobe Suite.

    I should have it all set up by xmas, with a few tries at shooting video of the students, editing for web and posting to my classroom blog.

    It would wonderful if there was a beginner workshop of a day or two in Austin during our Spring Break week of March 12-20, 2011. If not, I’ll keep on shooting and editing the students and hopefully, pick up a workshop in Austin during the summer.

    Thanks,
    Mary McCabe

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