Comments on: Why I love math! Visual storytelling is fun! http://blog.bobbyrettew.com/2010/03/11/why-i-love-math-visual-storytelling-is-fun/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-i-love-math-visual-storytelling-is-fun A Blog by BobbyRettew,llc Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:04:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bobby Rettew http://blog.bobbyrettew.com/2010/03/11/why-i-love-math-visual-storytelling-is-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-70 Bobby Rettew Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:48:59 +0000 http://blog.bobbyrettew.com/?p=236#comment-70 I love it when photojournalists get in a room and talk about their passion of telling a story! It is so much fun. The ole Mark Anderson way to describe this exercise: Wide/Medium/Tight/Super Tight/Get The Moment/Shoot & Move BR I love it when photojournalists get in a room and talk about their passion of telling a story! It is so much fun.

The ole Mark Anderson way to describe this exercise: Wide/Medium/Tight/Super Tight/Get The Moment/Shoot & Move

BR

]]> By: Twhims http://blog.bobbyrettew.com/2010/03/11/why-i-love-math-visual-storytelling-is-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-69 Twhims Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:20:41 +0000 http://blog.bobbyrettew.com/?p=236#comment-69 Yes, yes, yes! If I may add one more quick tip. Detail. A key marker in creative writing is description; the writer tries to form mental images with words. The images are already in place with video, but you have to show the detail. The visual of a flower is much different when a lens is pressed against its petals versus standing three feet away. Establish your scene with the wider shot first. Then provide the detail with tight, detailed imagery. Avoid zooming with your lens in order to achieve such shots, zoom with your feet. Speaking of zooming, stay away from it on and off camera, always. Establish the shot --> Record for seven seconds --> Stop --> Move --> Repeat Great article, Bobby. Yes, yes, yes!

If I may add one more quick tip. Detail.

A key marker in creative writing is description; the writer tries to form mental images with words. The images are already in place with video, but you have to show the detail.

The visual of a flower is much different when a lens is pressed against its petals versus standing three feet away. Establish your scene with the wider shot first. Then provide the detail with tight, detailed imagery. Avoid zooming with your lens in order to achieve such shots, zoom with your feet.

Speaking of zooming, stay away from it on and off camera, always. Establish the shot –> Record for seven seconds –> Stop –> Move –> Repeat

Great article, Bobby.

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