Photo Journalism and Reportage
Due to the nearing deadline of the yearbook, regular staff is no longer working on the yearbook. Editors may call on students they need to help them. So, is your job complete?
... Not really.
As you should be aware, this year's book will feature QR codes.
Why? As you know, there is still a lot of the year left, yet we have to send in the book quite a ways before the end of the year. This will allow us to add additional content after we have to send the final pages in. So, its time to begin gathering material for it. As we already have most the regular aspects of the school and clubs, we'll need to focus on new things. If you get something really cool, before the books submitted, we can discuss squeezing it into the book.
You'll need to choose a club/organization/special event thats doing something new or different from normal (field trips, special events, whatever beyond just what they normally do). You'll need to create a report on what the club/organization/event is doing, photograph it (use compositional techniques!), and write captions for it. You'll use the apple program Pages for this.
What to do today? Start learning how Pages works. Look into Photojournalism and Reportage to see these sorts of works done by professionals (often done on current events, new around the world, life in other countries).
Writing Samples
It's that time of the year.
If you're in yearbook, you have the option including discussion over one of four photographs from the Boston Globe's Big Picture. The photos on paper are xeroxed in black and white, they've been posted here so you may see them in higher quality and color.
from BostonGlobe: Students of the Academy for Peace and Justice attend class in Port-au-Prince Jan. 9, 2012. (Swoan Parker/Reuters)
from BostonGlobe: A man dressed in a folk costume jumps during the traditional Czech Masopust Carnival on February 4, 2012, near the east Bohemian city of Pardubice. Every year in mid-winter, villages throughout the Czech Republic celebrate Masopust. The festival marks the beginning of Lent. (Michal Cizek/AFP/Getty Images)
from BostonGlobe: Makeup is applied backstage before the Rebecca Taylor Fall/Winter 2012 show during New York Fashion Week, Feb. 10, 2012. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters)
from BostonGlobe: In this photo shot with a fisheye lens, the Pittsburgh Penguins' Matt Cooke celebrates his goal past Boston Bruins goalie Tim Thomas during Pittsburgh's 2-1 win in an NHL hockey game in Boston on February 4, 2012. (Winslow Townson/Associated Press)
Due to the nearing deadline of the yearbook, regular staff is no longer working on the yearbook. Editors may call on students they need to help them. So, is your job complete?
... Not really.
As you should be aware, this year's book will feature QR codes.
Why? As you know, there is still a lot of the year left, yet we have to send in the book quite a ways before the end of the year. This will allow us to add additional content after we have to send the final pages in. So, its time to begin gathering material for it. As we already have most the regular aspects of the school and clubs, we'll need to focus on new things. If you get something really cool, before the books submitted, we can discuss squeezing it into the book.
You'll need to choose a club/organization/special event thats doing something new or different from normal (field trips, special events, whatever beyond just what they normally do). You'll need to create a report on what the club/organization/event is doing, photograph it (use compositional techniques!), and write captions for it. You'll use the apple program Pages for this.
What to do today? Start learning how Pages works. Look into Photojournalism and Reportage to see these sorts of works done by professionals (often done on current events, new around the world, life in other countries).
Writing Samples
It's that time of the year.
If you're in yearbook, you have the option including discussion over one of four photographs from the Boston Globe's Big Picture. The photos on paper are xeroxed in black and white, they've been posted here so you may see them in higher quality and color.
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