Backpack Journalism Workshop at MPT: Using the Controlling Idea to Craft the Interview

Bill Gentile talks about using the controlling idea to help shape the questions backpack journalists will ask their interview subjects during productions of their documentaries.

http://billgentile.com/backpackjournalism/ Bill Gentile is an independent journalist and documentary filmmaker teaching at American University in Washington, DC. His career spans three decades, five continents and nearly every facet of journalism and mass communication, most especially visual communication, or visual storytelling. He is a pioneer of "backpack journalism" and today he is one of the craft's most noted practitioners. He is the founder and director of American University's Backpack Journalism Project.

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Education

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• Backpack Journalism
• Bill Gentile
• Documentary
• Character
• Film
• story
• structure
• narrative
• character arc
• controlling idea
• interview questions
• interviewing techniques
• Maryland Public Television