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New E-Book



Hidden Secrets: The Secrets to Becoming an outstanding camera operator

New e-book release by Roger Jeakings

“Hidden Secrets” investigates the mindset of the skilled camera professional producing TV news images portrayed on the battlefield, in hostile countries, at home and abroad for TV news networks around the world. The eBook, written by combat photojournalist Roger Jeakings, with 28-years of TV news camera experience, explains the techniques that make special camera operators stand out in a crowd. It illustrates how astute camera operators inside and outside the TV news profession can use the same information and thinking to give them the leading visual and production edge anywhere, any time.

Here are some of the “Hidden Secrets” essentials revealed in the new eBook:

  • Breaking into the TV news industry and staying there
  • Your choice between a lead pencil and digital camera
  • How to win friends and influence video prospects in seconds
  • Power your sense of intuition on TV news and video assignments
  • TV news assignments … tales out of school … the gift of a wife
  • Discover the dramatic impact of visual emotion.
  • Learn to mentally control camera production time
  • Secret mind games … realizing brain states to your advantage
  • Energy to burn … the Tibetan way … to stay on top
  • Perfect the skill of personal survival and win
  • What Mahatma Gandhi did when he lost his shoe on the railroad?

Veteran TV news cameraman Greg Kay, has this to say about the new eBook:
"Dear Roger, I have just finished reading your eBook "Hidden Secrets". I felt compelled as a fellow veteran of the TV News camera industry to congratulate you on a superb and totally informative book. Paragraph after paragraph I found myself saying, "that's exactly right" in response to what I was reading. I found myself reminiscing on my early days as a TV News Cameraman in the early 1980s, covering everything from train smashes to cats up trees (as we have all done). Having been in a position of hiring staff, I found your thoughts on what gives one new recruit the edge over another to be, spot on. This book would have to be a ‘must read’ for anyone interested in our game. Well done!"
Greg Kay, Manager, G Kay Productions Pty, Ltd. Sydney, Australia.

Empower yourself and others with “Hidden Secrets.” The new eBook is priced at $20 and can purchased by clicking here (If you would like to sample a free download of the ‘snapshot’ preview of “Hidden Secrets,” click on “Insight into TV News,” mini eBook available at the same address.) You can contact Roger Jeakings at lavenderpathway@actrix.co.nz



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