Processing The News

Processing The News

Every digital image must be touched by software before you see it. But when each pixel is affected, who decides what is true. 

By: Scott Alexander

A: This article is about photojournalism and all of the different things you can do yourself to make it interesting. Not just photojournalism but news world wide photography. People do many different things from others to make their work their own. Editing with journalism comes in handy quite a bit it had a huge impact on your final pieces that go along with your story. "There is no original image" everything is made into your own so you can personally take credit and plus working for associated press. 

B: Some interesting information about this article that I learned is such as every digital photo leaves a trial when it passes through a camera or is processed through a piece of software. It creates defining difference in each photo so that all of them can become unique and that just caught my eye because i know when I do this photojournalism assignment i want all of my shots and final items to be unique and leaves a digital photo trial.

C: What can benefit me from this article to help me with my project is to question things are to make information transparent to make it all unique. 

Student Yearbook Guide

Student Yearbook Guide

Reporting

1.     Good Reporters

a.     Looking and Listening for their readers, observing and reacting.

b.     5 H’s and W’s            

c.     Variety of sources that make the stories more interesting.

d.     Interviewing or being associated with people that are involved with that event.

2.     Research

a.     Researching a certain event or story helps the reporter with their understanding of their stories they are writing.

b.     Interviews, Surveys, Polls, and Focus Groups help material be produced for the final reporting story.

c.     Material from the same event from the past to be read to help your start on the new story.

3.     Interviews

a.     Lots of questions, the more the better, the better the question the better the answer. Open Ended, Close Ended, and Follow up Questions.

b.     Listening around to what others are saying during the event.

c.     Gather as much information as you can that retains to the story so you have lots of different things to work with.

Writing          

1.     Notes

a.     Using questions to help you focus on the story.

b.     Again with the many options from your notes while recording as many quotes, interesting information and more to make a great writing to go along with the story.

c.     Be as organized as possible with all of your different information.

2.     Stories

a.      

                                               i.     Lead –  Opening paragraph or sentence in an article that ties you into the story.    

                                             ii.     Quotes – Word to word from an interview from someone that adds interest to the story with the persons name and school year.

                                            iii.     Transitions – Details in story to tie it all together, facts, figures and descriptions.

                                            iv.     Conclusion –  Final paragraph or sentence that ties your story together to show completeness and should end with interesting facts/information.

b.      

3.     Good Writing

a.     Make writing full of lots of details and suspense, specific places, people, events and more.

b.     Tightly written and greatly developed story.

c.     Taking advantage of what people have to say about that certain event and use it as an inspiration.

d.     Make the writing into your own, not copying from what information you got from when you interviewed a person or the things you’ve read, take it into your own perspective and make it your own.

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?

Describe the 3-step process to writing dynamic headlines

1.     Making it thrill suspending.

2.     Catchy words and describe

3.     Add an addition to rhyme and consider other literary techniques.

Captions                        

1.     Content

a.     Captions writing requires reporting.

b.     Answering questions about the questions in a photo in deep depth.

c.     Adding direct quotes from individuals in the photo to add deep depth.

d.     Captions should do more than state the obvious.

2.     Describe the 3-step process to writing captions

a.     Making a caption to help understand what’s going on in the photo.

b.     Reporting specific information, FORMAT.

c.     Direct quotes and information to add depth to make it more interesting for the person viewing it to want to see more.

Photography

We will be discussing this section in class

Pennlive

'Happy Valley' movie is a mirror on sports and media culture, director Amir Bar- Lev says;
Article by: Charles Thompson
Email: cthompson@pennlive.com

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/11/happy_valley_is_a_mirror_on_sp.html#incart_river_entertainment

Charles Thompson has documented about Artist Michael Pilato paints over the image of Jerry Sandusky in his mural “Inspiration" in "Happy Valley. Amir Bar- Lev is not a huge fan of football but is here to document more of this story. Lots of people are well aware about the Sandusky Case and this is concerned as photojournalism because no matter how long this case has been going on about this whole situation there is always new information coming out about the whole trial. Everyone has their feelings as to how they feel about the case and what else has been done and needs to be changed. This article like much of the rest of the American public, it was kind of hard to miss the media feeding frenzy over one of the biggest sports-related scandals ever, and when that same scandal happened to fell a living legend like former Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno, Lev's story-telling instincts were locked on. Bar-Lev got a late, lucky break when, after most of Sandusky's abuse victims reached civil settlements with Penn State in the summer of 2013, Sandusky's adopted son, Matt, agreed to go on camera with his life's story.In prior interviews at this year's Sundance Film Festival, producer Kenneth Dornstein noted "Happy Valley" production was held up to get Matt's interviews in wrapping the week before Thanksgiving in 2013, Bar-Lev says those talks wound up giving the film one of its most compelling voices, and gave him a unique chance to contrast the oddly-conjoined fortunes of the two families in the eye of the storm. Now he had eyes into the world of Penn State's number one saint (Joe Paterno), and Penn State's number one sinner (Jerry Sandusky).In the end, Bar-Lev said he didn't see it as his job to annoint heroes and villains. Plenty of others are doing that - see the constant modifications of the well-known mural in downtown State College. Rather, he simply wants to hold the scandal up like a mirror for all to see and take the measure of what it says about 21^st Century society, and how we rush into what the film calls "shaming spectacles" over troubling stories, and then move on. To the degree that has happened at State College, Bar-Lev says he isn't condemning. He just wants viewers to look hard into that mirror one more time. It's up to them whether they feel what projects back or not needs a change.

Photojournalism Project Proposal

For my photojournalism project I think I'm going to do it on my dad and his business. He is a Personal Fitness Trainer and has his own business in Carlisle. He's had the business for over 20 years and he loves every minute of it. The reason I chose to use him and his business is because he loves what he does, there's a lot of things about his place that are just different from other gyms that are around the area and he's very independent and I think it will be a very cool background to the story along with the pictures that will go with it. The reason why I want to do use my dad is because he's always been my biggest fan and motivation to succeed. I want to document his business and write about how he feels and his purpose is for his business with true meaning behind it.

Photojournalism- Robin Bowman- The American Teenager Project

The American Teenager Project

Robin Bowman is working as a freelance journalist for the last 28 years. Documenting social and political issues during that time. Earned a degree in Anthropology at Wheaton College. Started working on becoming a professional photographer on her own and not with others. Then later after studying had led her to becoming a famous photographer from the help of Maine Photographic Workshops (was the name back in the day that was later re-owned and had been named Magnum Photos). Robin has become known very well and she is pretty famous, not only is she a photographer but she writes books and makes appearance to give speeches. Robin currently lives in Brooklyn NY with her dog, Ferdinand. I like Robin's shots and work because they're so natural and the photos are those peoples daily lives and their facial expressions are really showing how their feeling. The black and white editing really showcases depth of certain things that are in the photos. These photos represent these people and kind of tell a story by the way that you're looking at the picture. This is considered as photojournalism because of the story the picture tells as you look at it, this type of photojournalism is different than other because there's so much meaning that makes it so different and unusual than some other photojournalism's pictures.

Portraiture

I used Abby Benton as my model and I think that this portraiture assignment did showcase her personality because she and I both had fun with the photo shoot the couple times that we shot. She was easy to work with and we know each other pretty well so I could tell that she was also having fun as much as I was, the shots that I chose for this collage I think show who she is best, she's fun and always makes me laugh not just because she's my best friend but she has a great sense of humor. 

My personal thoughts on this portraiture assignment for overall is I really liked doing it, I love taking and editing all of the photos that I shoot and I think depending on the model you have will make the assignment more enjoyable. My thoughts on my end results I was really happy about, I love how all of the photos came out the editing was a lot of fun for me.

My model and others said that they loved the end results of the photos and loved the way that they were edited and laid out on the collage. Some tips I could give to a person who does this assignment is make sure that you find the right person to model your photos, make sure they are really into doing it and while you are taking the photos make sure that you can find the right angels for that person and the right lighting. The most challenging aspect of this assignment would have to be while I was shooting to find the right lighting for the photos and making sure you can know what angels work the best for the model which was a little challenging because this is one of my first portrait assignments but I got the hang of it once I realized what I could do to make it better.