In Make It Memorable, former NBC News correspondent Bob Dotson and New York Times visual investigations producer Drew Jordan present a unique and engaging hands-on approach to the craft of visual storytelling. The third edition offers new insight for the digital age and a step-by-step explanation of how to find and create all kinds of visual stories under tight deadlines. In addition to new scripts annotated with behind-the-scenes insights and structural comments, the book includes links to online videos of all the story examples.
Chapter 1: Become a Better Storyteller
Chapter 2: Getting Started
Chapter 3: Successfully Pitch the Stories You Want to Do
Chapter 4: Interviewing
Chapter 5: Look for Different Ways to Tell Your Story
Chapter 6: Shooting Your Story
Chapter 8: Writing
Chapter 9: Lighting the Path to Whats New
Additional Videos Available for Viewing
Appendix
Glossary of Script Cues
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Authors
Bob Dotson, special correspondent for the NBC Today show, has more than forty years of experience in the field of broadcast journalism. His long running American Story segment is one of the most honored series in network television history, winning more than 100 awards, including eight Emmys. Dotson has received more than seventy awards, including six Edward R. Murrow Awards for "Best Network News Writing", top journalism awards from DuPont-Columbia and the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation, numerous National Headliner Awards, the Sprague Memorial Citation from the National Press Photographers Association, and the William Allen White Foundations 2015 National Citation for long-standing journalistic excellence in service to the profession and community.
Drew Jordan is a motion design, graphics, and creative visuals specialist on the Visual Investigations team at the New York Times. He was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for coverage of Russia's bombing of hospitals in Syria, and has been a graphics editor and producer for 4 News and Documentary Emmy Awards. Before joining the New York Times in 2017, he worked as a creative lead for NBC, and prior to that ran his own studio specializing in motion design for journalistic and documentary productions.
