ABSTRACT

71 Summary

Shooting video can be a time-consuming task fraught with variables like changing light, noisy locations and talent that won’t play ball. It’s the same whether you use a big expensive camera or a smartphone. Video stories require pictures. How we plan and shoot these is discussed in this chapter. The multi-award-winning cameraman, former executive producer of Foreign Correspondent and producer at ABC investigative series Four Corners, Wayne Harley, provides a Break-out Box of tips, as does talented RTÉ mobile journalist Philip Bromwell.