CURRENT ASSIGNMENTS
Create a top 10 Power Point of your best work to show the class. This represents your overall artistic accomplishment and flexibility. Develop a narrative biographical portrait Try these photos for a narrative portrait unit Interview the subject of your photojournalism assignment. Get 1/2 to 1 page of your own questions answered. Get emotional photos. The photo implies a coming event or an event that just happened. Get close-up of the environment that the person lives in. (wealth poverty ect.) Photograph actions the person does like dancing, moving, cooking) Frame the person with objects or frame them with doorways or other items in the background. Photograph people in groups that they belong to. Take photos of the same person in the past. Use props for children to get them to play or to define the character of an adult. Come up with at least 4 of your own ideas. Associated Press Caption Style The first sentence describes what the photo shows, in the present tense, and states where and when the photo was made. It must ALWAYS include the day and date the photo was made. The second sentence gives background on the news event or describes why the photo is significant. Whenever possible, try to keep captions to no more than two concise sentences, while including the relevant information. Try to anticipate what information a newspaper editor or reader will need. |
Photojournalism-the art and practice of communicating news by using photographs. Students in this class should strive to get an image into both the newspaper or the yearbook to document news. There will be 4 themes that you should be familiar with in the course of studying photojournalism here at South. Find images of each durning the course of the semester. Find 4 photos for each category today put it all in a word document and write about three of them in each group. For category 1 consider looking at historic photos. 1) Informational Use the 5 standards Who, What Where When and Why to convey information 2) Graphically appealing- make photos interesting that would otherwise be boring 3) Emotional - These kind of photographs make the viewer or reader feel an emotive response using laughing, hugging or crying figure in a non-staged manor. 4) Intimate- private moment that are hard to define but the viewer feels in tune with the subject out of the public eye The first priority is to respond to and record news from the world. The second major idea is to record event within the community at South High. The last materials photographed should be the discussion of our own personal world. Here is how the Washington Post classified news stores in a hierarchy of importance; Here is a list of 18 ways to start thinking like photojournalist before you begin shooting your own work. 1 Head for a good cruising locations the old part of town or somewhere people are out and about. 2 Keep an idea book containing pictures you admire as reminders of people or places that make good subjects. 3 Watch the calendar for upcoming events happenings and holidays. 4 Shoot from uniques vantage points such as the top of architecture (like the capital dome or South’s tower or below a trampoline. 5 Make contacts and as people you know about events activities, individuals organizations that are needing promotion. 6 Check newspapers and magazines including classifies ads for news ideas. 7 Look at event calendars in westwards or the Denver post. 8 Follow trends both locally and nationally to report upon. Get list of all clubs at South and photograph at least 1. YB. Get a list of reporters stories from Ms. P and support the writer with strong images. 9 Weatherize- Show how people or pets are adapting and coping to major shifts in uncomfortable conditions. 10 Select a word like love, friendship or family and do a photo-shoot around the theme. 11 Examine extremes. The best and worst. The largest and smallest. 12 Look for a person that is exceptional and get a visual and verbal story about them. 13 Seek out exciting scenes of landscape or architecture. 14 Explore an new neighborhood. 15 Study students and training programs beyond the high school setting including vocational schools, mortuary academies, hairdressing school, clown colleges or other training opportunities listed in the internet or the yellow pages 16 Contribute am image to a blog or post thoughtful well defined images on the internet. 17 Simplify the world into graphic images, patterns or shadows. 18 Leave your subjects with an email contact, good memories or a personalized business card. |