Make It Memorable

Veteran NBC News correspondent Bob Dotson and New York Times visual investigations producer Drew Jordan present a 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.

Make It Memorable: Writing and Packaging Visual News with Style

Humor & Entertainment

Jordan, Drew

Dotson Special Correspondent Th, Bob

Movies

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

This essential guide to visual storytelling for news media students and professionals, grounds you in proven techniques while it lights your path to the future of new media storytelling in the digital world. 
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. 
Each chapter includes Detailed story scripts with video cues, audio cues, story tips, and links to the final productions online. Discussion questions to reflect on and apply the chapter's content to your own stories.\nAdditional book resources Glossary of Script Cues Reporter's Checklist for every story\nNew to the third edition Insights on new media and digital open-source journalism from Drew Jordan add to Bob Dotson’s classic framework for engaging storytelling. Chapter 9: Lighting the Path to What's New draws on Drew Jordan's EMMY and Pulitzer Prize winning work with the New York Times Visual Investigations unit to reveal the latest digital tools for building stories with deeper, richer visual-based narratives. The chapter script analyses the New York Times’ piece: “Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol.” New digital sources and tools include satellite maps and geospatial imaging, bodycam footage, user-generated smartphone footage, and social media content and data.

The greatest love stories begin with blood… There is blood. There is pain. And there is him. These are the first things I register when I wake up, the lone survivor in an Alaskan plane crash. He carries me to safety over rough terrain and brings me to his cabin in the woods. He has no name. Or none he will tell me. As snow creeps across the harsh and isolated landscape, he is my only company. My protector, my caretaker. A fascinating enigma, with mysterious eyes, gentle hands, and a rough voice that demands more from me than I ever expected to give. I make up different stories, different names for him depending on his mood, because I know nothing about him except that he is my only connection to the real world I want to return to. So I work to please him, plotting my escape, yet all the while I start to crave him and every touch of his dominating body. He has saved me from the cold. From death. But in taking me and my body, will he destroy me?

Crash

Literature & Fiction

Erotica

Erin McCarthy

All you need is love and a strong alibi… A plane crash brought me to the cabin in the woods with the stranger, but love and sex keeps me here, as his willing captive. Nothing can take me from his arms, not even a man from my past. But the police have questions for me. For us. All I’ve ever wanted is to stay with the stranger, the man I crave and need, but my secrets are starting to unravel. Escape is what the stranger demands and I’ll do anything for him, including leaving the cabin and creating a new identity. I’ll do whatever he tells me to do- with my body, my heart, my soul. The last time I loved, I lost. I won’t let that happen again. HIDE is the follow up to the bestselling erotic thriller, CRASH, with the series conclusion, EXPOSE (the stranger’s story), releasing in late 2016. For mature readers only.

Hide (Crash)

I am the hunter. She is the prey. The first time I saw Laney I thought she was dead in the wreckage of that plane crash. She was still and pale, her hair tumbled around her face as she slumped slightly to the side. Like a perfect porcelain doll on a little chair, and I thought it was a waste of such a beautiful face. But then her eyes popped open and they were filled with pain and fear. I knew that look. It was the look of every animal that has been hunted and hasn’t died yet. She was the fox with her leg in the trap, and I freed her from the seat crushing her foot, picked her up and took her home. No one can trap her but me, her captor, but danger is coming. I need to plan very carefully how to save Laney’s sexy little ass and keep her all to myself. She thinks she is love with me, and maybe she is. I hope she is. Because I love her too, even if I have a strange way of showing it… All his secrets are exposed as he and Laney’s erotic relationship reaches its climax in the Alaskan tundra.

Expose (Crash)