Story Producing for Reality Television and Documentary: Scripting the Unscripted

This book explores the nuts and bolts of the story producing process, helping students and professionals to transform hundreds of hours of source footage into cohesive, understandable, and editable scripts that translate to compelling storytelling. After an introduction to the role of a story producer, the book dives into the structures and genres of unscripted and scripted television - and how the story producer should approach them.This includes breakdowns of how the story producer functions in the pre-production, production and post-production stages, as well as technical and ethical considerations in today’s television, new media, and documentary industries.These lessons are all informed by the Author’s experience in this role, as well as the insights of a wide range of industry experts in featured interviews throughout the book.Tim Prokop, show creator, writer, and showrunner; Vanessa Cochran, documentary and news producer and editor; Rosa Camero, marketing and distribution expert