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Video Shooter, 3rd Edition
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Video Shooter, 3rd Edition

by Barry Braverman
October 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
330 pages
11h
English
Routledge
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CHAPTER

The Shooter’s Point of View

1

Dear Video Shooter:

This is your task. This is your struggle to uniquely and eloquently express your point of view. Whatever it is. Wherever it takes you. For the shooter-storyteller, this exploration can be exhilarating and personal. It’s what makes your point of view different and enables you to tell visually compelling stories like no other video shooter in the world.

In May 1988 while on assignment for National Geographic in Poland, I learned a profound lesson about the power of personal video and point of view. The aging Communist regime had amassed a thousand soldiers with tanks in front of the Gdansk Shipyard to crush a strike by workers belonging to the banned Solidarity union. I happened to ...

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ISBN: 9780240825175