Student Yearbook Guide

Student Yearbook Guide

Reporting

1.     Good Reporters

a.     Look and listen

b.     Are active at an event/ activity

c.     Use good sources

d.     Gather information using the five W’s and H

2.     Research

a.     Helps people understand the story

b.     Previously published material is a good place to start

c.     Provide background material that could be used in the story

3.     Interviews

a.     The better the questions the better the answers

b.     Active listening

c.     Good notes for direct quotes and facts

Writing          

1.     Notes

a.     Uses questions to focus the story

b.     If the notes seem incomplete the story isn’t done, there is more reporting to do

c.     Organize notes; it helps with deciding what to use in the story

2.     Stories

a.     Best stories are put in human context

                                               i.     Lead – opening of the story, sets the tone for the piece

                                             ii.     Quotes –word for word statement from a source

                                            iii.     Transitions – details to the quotes that make them more meaningful

                                            iv.     Conclusion – The last sentence is used to tie up the article

b.     Quick reads offer an alternative to features

3.     Good Writing

a.     Tightly written and lively

b.     Depends on angle and substance

c.     Uses narrative elements

d.     Fresh and original

Read the article by Mallory Summers & see all the components working together

Writing effective headlines requires creativity, effort, and attention to details

What can you take from this page to help in writing creative headlines?

To be creative, interview people, and not be obvious in your headlines  

Describe the 3-step process to writing dynamic headlines

1.     Solid understanding of content

2.     Word play and brain storm

3.     Lead to quality and consistency

Captions                        

1.     Content

a.     Should be more than state the obvious

b.     Answer readers questions about the photo

c.     Requires reporting

d.     Direct quotes add depth to the photo

2.     Describe the 3-step process to writing captions

a.     Gather information

b.     Create verbal connection

c.     Write the caption

Processing the News

The article is about the difference in photography and how it has changed photojournalism. It talks about digital cameras compared to film cameras. Now we have photoshop and nice cameras. You can take hundreds of shots in minutes with digital cameras. This makes it easy to capture things in the moment which is super important to photojournalism. The article also talks about how some people don't trust the photos taken. But people just have to trust the photojournalists and that the photos represent something that is really happening. I find it interesting about what people think of the use of photoshop in photojournalism. For my final project i'm going to try to get everything exactly how I want it in the camera and minimum use of photoshop. I'm going to only use it to crop the photo or to edit the small things like the guest speaker talked about.

Pennlive

How did PennLive's HS football coverage team fare with its Week 12 and season-long picks?          by  Geoff Morrow

  http://highschoolsports.pennlive.com/news/article/-4965096437109189089/how-did-pennlives-hs-football-coverage-team-fare-with-its-week-12-and-season-long-picks/#incart_river 

The article was about high school football in the area. It was talking about the different games and who was picked to win. It also showed who actually won and who is advancing. I like the pictures because there are a lot of action shots. Action shots to me are very interesting and i like that the photos follow the one, few, or many rule that we were taught. They make the photos unique. The article wasn't much but it was cool to see who was picked to win and who actually did win. 

Robin Bowman – It’s Complicated: The American Teenager

The American Teenager project is a collection of portraits and interviews from adolescents. Robin Bowman, the photographer, used her old polaroid camera and analogue recorder to capture everything. Between 2001 and 2005 she traveled 21,731 miles and interviewing 419 teenagers of diverse social cultures. Many of the people she encountered had very sad stories but it was not despairing. She finds hope and strength showcasing the real stories of young people as they struggle.
Robin Bowman has been a freelance journalist for 28 years. She earned a degree in anthropology at Wheaton College and studied photography independently. It eventually led her to become a professional photographer. She was published in many major magazines and newspapers. Eventually she started The American Teenager project and published her book.

                                   

I like the idea of the project. She photographed real people in their real lives. I like that even though the people are posed they are in their own environment. This is photojournalism because the photo tells a story. Its not just a photo. They all have a backstory to go with it. Its different because its based on each person and it is posed. A lot of photojournalism is taken in the moment and not posed. 

Photojournalism Project Proposal

I think I'm going to do my grandfathers barbershop and the story behind it. The personal connection is that it was my grandfather's for so many years and when he got sick recently my family sold it. The guy that bought it is really nice and keeps part of my grandfather there. I'm going to be going back down to Philadelphia this weekend and plan to go to the barbershop and do my project.

Portraiture Final

·       My model was my best friend Brooke. I tried to do fun poses and pictures because she is really free spirited. I didn't do many serious faces in pictures because that isn't who she is. I also let her decide some things that she thought would look good. We are so comfortable with each other that she would do anything I asked of her. I really liked this assignment. I learned a lot about shooting people. I am really proud of how they turned out.When i showed my friend the pictures she absolutely loved them and so did all my other friends. Tips i would give is to be open to different shots and also try to get everything set in the camera. It makes the editing go faster. The most challenging part of this assignment was probably the weather. It was always rainy and cloudy when I had time to do the project. I think i made some interesting pictures and I'm really proud of that. 

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Expression Panel Sketch and Actions

Expression Panel

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