From the course: Video Journalism: Storytelling Techniques
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Agreeing on a story outline - Premiere Pro Tutorial
From the course: Video Journalism: Storytelling Techniques
Agreeing on a story outline
An important part of your pre-production workflow is to create a barebones story outline. This is not a detailed script, merely a series of concepts in the likely order they will appear in the finished piece. This does several things to enhance the story. It gives you and your client, or whoever you're creating the video for, an opportunity to make sure you're on the same page, that you really did agree on a central message and the means to prove that message visually. It gives all parties some extra time to think about the story. It's not at all unusual for your client to suddenly remember something they wanted to include in the video or something they really wanted to drop. They can prompt you or the client to rethink the structure of the story and whether you really can get video to support all the topics in your outline. And it gives you a better sense of the pacing, how much time you'll need reach topic and whether you need extra shots to transition from one topic to another…
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