Kurt Lancaster > Quotes

“We’ve got too much of what they call spray and pray—put a wide-angle lens on a thing, blast everything in sight, and then pray to God that something is useable.”
― Kurt Lancaster, Video Journalism for the Web: A Practical Introduction to Documentary Storytelling

“It’s the visuals, and that’s the engine inside the methodology. Then you have the natural sound on camera. It’s what your subjects tell you, the cars passing by in the street; in the case of Afghanistan, it’s the helicopters flying over and the guys firing machine guns. And then you’ve got your own narration, which connects the dots and tells you what all of this means.”
― Kurt Lancaster, Video Journalism for the Web: A Practical Introduction to Documentary Storytelling

“I define backpack journalism as [a] character-driven model done by one person who has got the luxury of time to spend with the subjects, to watch the subjects as the story evolves and change.”
― Kurt Lancaster, Video Journalism for the Web: A Practical Introduction to Documentary Storytelling