Do you want to be a better video journalist? Shoot better pictures, master the art of travel and gain an understanding of how to survive in a war zone?
If so then my book Camera Confidential will help you.
This is the second edition of the book and includes a number of new sections and fresh interviews.
Topics covered include:
- Strategies for finding work
- Freelancing
- Shooting sequences, Pieces to Camera and interviews
- Filming in hostile environments and in extreme weather
- Tips and tricks for travelling with video gear
At over 200 pages long Camera Confidential is packed with detailed and informative interviews with many of the best news shooters in the world.
Christian Parkinson is editor of imagejunkies.net - the popular blog for cameramen and video journalists.
He has been a news cameraman, editor and video journalist for the last 14 years.
He's worked for two of the UK’s biggest broadcasters and has covered wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Ivory Coast, Somalia, Gaza and Libya. He's also covered a World Cup, two Olympics and hundreds of less well known but equally important stories around the world.
Christian has learned a lot during his career, mainly through his mistakes. Mistakes that he wants you to avoid.
Camera Confidential is Christian's attempt to help others, it’s the book he wishes somebody had given to him when he first set out as a travelling news shooter.
If so then my book Camera Confidential will help you.
This is the second edition of the book and includes a number of new sections and fresh interviews.
Topics covered include:
- Strategies for finding work
- Freelancing
- Shooting sequences, Pieces to Camera and interviews
- Filming in hostile environments and in extreme weather
- Tips and tricks for travelling with video gear
At over 200 pages long Camera Confidential is packed with detailed and informative interviews with many of the best news shooters in the world.
Christian Parkinson is editor of imagejunkies.net - the popular blog for cameramen and video journalists.
He has been a news cameraman, editor and video journalist for the last 14 years.
He's worked for two of the UK’s biggest broadcasters and has covered wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Ivory Coast, Somalia, Gaza and Libya. He's also covered a World Cup, two Olympics and hundreds of less well known but equally important stories around the world.
Christian has learned a lot during his career, mainly through his mistakes. Mistakes that he wants you to avoid.
Camera Confidential is Christian's attempt to help others, it’s the book he wishes somebody had given to him when he first set out as a travelling news shooter.