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.</s>ROBERT GOULD, PHOTOGRAPHER: That's it. That's what I want. Perfect.</s>RENEE KOHN, KSWB CORRESPONDENT: Robert Gould clicks away at the craft he's loved for 30 years.</s>GOULD: I went to school for photography back in the early 70s.</s>KOHN: But a decade ago, the career he pictured took a wide angle turn.</s>GOULD: It just became a passion to discover a way to get kids to read.</s>KOHN: So now, he is photographing pirates, working with illustrators...</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Story board comes first, and it is basically a blueprint for the movie.</s>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.</s>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.</s>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.</s>GOULD: You're excited now, because you are getting rescued.</s>KOHN: Renee Kohn, San Diego's WB News at 10.
Photographer Encourages Reading through Digitally Enhanced Books