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Photographer Encourages Reading through Digitally Enhanced Books

Aired August 27, 2002 - 12:55   ET

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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: A picture could be worth more than 1,000 words, especially if it gets children interested in reading. That's the focus of one man's work, as Renee Kohn of KSWB reports.
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ROBERT GOULD, PHOTOGRAPHER: That's it. That's what I want. Perfect.

RENEE KOHN, KSWB CORRESPONDENT: Robert Gould clicks away at the craft he's loved for 30 years.

GOULD: I went to school for photography back in the early 70s.

KOHN: But a decade ago, the career he pictured took a wide angle turn.

GOULD: It just became a passion to discover a way to get kids to read.

KOHN: So now, he is photographing pirates, working with illustrators...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Story board comes first, and it is basically a blueprint for the movie.

KOHN: And making colorful, digitally enhanced books just like you would create a movie. Today, they are shooting "Patch," a pirate story where only time soldiers can save the day.

GOULD: I studied Spielberg's movies. I took his formula, and applied it to a children's picture book, which is bringing fantasy to realism, and realism to fantasy.

KOHN (on camera): After they take the pictures, they load the images into this computer, where the digital special effects come to life.

(voice-over): So from this -- to this, you get this, and that makes reading right on to these time soldiers, who are a little tied up at the moment.

GOULD: You're excited now, because you are getting rescued.

KOHN: Renee Kohn, San Diego's WB News at 10.

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