Video Technologies: Good Ideas from Bad Videos

About the Author

Barry Hampe is the author of Making Videos for Money (Holt, 1998), Making Documentary Films and Reality Videos (Holt, 1997), and Video Scriptwriting (Plume, 1993). He and his partner Sylvie Hampe own The Writing and Editing Company, Inc. in Las Vegas where they make videos and write books.

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