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Byte Sized Television: Create Your Own TV Series for the Internet ReviewI wanted to love this book, but it became a love hate thing. First, and glaringly, it is not 260 pages. Not even close---under 200 actual pages which makes for a thin book. They paginate to 218 but over 20 of those pages are for one appendix or another. One was on additional reading, and I looked at those books---not impressive.
First, what I thought I was getting was a somewhat technical book on how to make an internet TV show happen. What you get is 199 pages written quite nicely by a writer about writing, mostly. That part was really, really disappointing. Not because it was poorly written--->because it was about WRITING. If the book was billed as WRITING for video, then fine. But it is about CREATING a TV SERIES for the INTERNET. I just thought there would be more about the internet and about how to do a series on the internet---technical stuff.
He says to upload it onto U-tube. Then he does say, unless you want to do some interactive things and then you might need a website. I just thought he could have expanded on all of that, or maybe could have had a co-writer who knew about such things, because I personally think the advent of internet TV is about programs you make that stand alone on the internet and have audience interaction---something like Bravo. If you think you are getting that, you aren't.
It is a 2011 version and so I assume his links to sites on the web are current and he does give some good ones. He has ideas on how to get casting--->like going to a college or to a theatre group. I thought that was helpful---I probably would have put an ad in the paper and these are MUCH BETTER ideas. I give him credit for that.
He points out what anyone who has ever used a video camera knows which is that the sound is pitiful. He spends way too much time telling the reader when that might be OK (here's where I got frustrated) when he could have spent that time telling me a basic thing---how do I fix it. Then he talks about how you need a boom and another person. This just isn't so. I am shooting one person and I know I need an external mic (not on my camera), but I don't begin to know what is available currently. My guy is shirtless and I don't happen to have another person (the boom guy) but I think there must be a way to mic him. He said if he talked about this it would make the book too long---let's face it, Ross, you could have gone on at least another 60 pages, since it is billed as a 260 page book. And SOUND is an extremely important topic. I almost wish they would have put what you are NOT getting because he does say repeatedly that if he had added this or that the book would have been too long. The book is in big type, BTW.
I looked at the Appendix on sound (he recommends another book by the same publisher who is Michael Wiese). I looked at that book on Amazon and, at best, it looked like he had only a few pages devoted to placing a mic on a person. Disappointing and somewhat self serving.
Take a look at the table of contents to see if this is the book you think it is. Almost half of it is about writing and another quarter is a very broad discussion about things you may (or may not) have picked up elsewhere. Feed your crew, be nice to your crew, be patient, don't burn a hole in the rug where you are shooting, clean up after a shoot. I mean, it's a nice review and well written, but I thought the book was going to have a whole lot more meat about how to technically make this whole thing happen. Now I sort of realize I already know how to make it happen.
I know how to create a website and if you know that and you also know how to write for film/tv, this book isn't going to take you too much further. As he says, just put your video up on U-tube. That's the technical pitch.
I don't know how to star this because I think if you are new to everything, it's a great book. A great first blush with creating your own show.
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