Good morning.
You are going to prepare for your photojournalism/photo essay today.
Take a look at the 1 in 8 million series again for a few minutes. You will be creating a photo slideshow like one of the ones you see.
Please answer the following and turn in to the substitute teacher before the end of the period.
1) Who is the subject of your photo essay?
2) Why is this person newsworthy?
3) What kinds of pictures do you hope to capture?
4) Where will you take pictures of this person, to make the photo essay more authentic?
5) What will you do to elevate your pictures from amateur to more professional status?
6) List at least 10 interview questions you have for the subject, that will get them talking like they do in the 1 in 8 million series.
When you're done, please check out this site for some more photographic inspiration.
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Bullying Informed Opinion
My expectation is by now, you have developed a more informed opinion on the topic of bullying.
Today, you're going to start writing your informed opinion.
The question is: What should this country do about the bullying problem?
You can tackle the question directly or you can tackle a smaller portion of the question, like cyberbullying, or bullying by girls, or the role of bystanders, or bullying by coaches, or what are the schools' responsibilities?
Aim for about a page. You should back up your arguments with evidence.
Here are the sources you've been exposed to in the last couple weeks. Use this as evidence, along with personal experience:
- the readings about Phoebe Prince
- the cyberbullying stations
- cyberbullying facts
- how much are schools responsible?
- when do words become a crime?
- the poem you read today
- the discussions we have had in class about bullying
- the bullying facts you found from making the video
- the two exemplars (Carrie Ann and John Amaechi)
- empathy you have from making the video
- what you felt/heard/said at Town Hall
- the bullying book you read/are reading
- the documentary we watched, called "Submit"
- the TV show we watched with Anderson Cooper about bullying
- other notes in your folder
Today, you're going to start writing your informed opinion.
The question is: What should this country do about the bullying problem?
You can tackle the question directly or you can tackle a smaller portion of the question, like cyberbullying, or bullying by girls, or the role of bystanders, or bullying by coaches, or what are the schools' responsibilities?
Aim for about a page. You should back up your arguments with evidence.
Here are the sources you've been exposed to in the last couple weeks. Use this as evidence, along with personal experience:
- the readings about Phoebe Prince
- the cyberbullying stations
- cyberbullying facts
- how much are schools responsible?
- when do words become a crime?
- the poem you read today
- the discussions we have had in class about bullying
- the bullying facts you found from making the video
- the two exemplars (Carrie Ann and John Amaechi)
- empathy you have from making the video
- what you felt/heard/said at Town Hall
- the bullying book you read/are reading
- the documentary we watched, called "Submit"
- the TV show we watched with Anderson Cooper about bullying
- other notes in your folder
Bullying poems
Students will read a poem about bullying.
Students will understand the definition of empathy.
http://www.bestteenpoems.com/poems/bullying/
Find a poem that speaks to you, for whatever reason.
Read it. Copy and paste it to a Word Document.
At the bottom, answer:
1) Why'd you pick it? What about it "conects" with you?
2) What is empathy? Look it up in the dictionary.
3) Try to "walk in the shoes" of someone who is being bullied. What must it be like to feel like you have no hope, or to be that much in despair?
Print it out and put it in your folder.
Students will understand the definition of empathy.
http://www.bestteenpoems.com/poems/bullying/
Find a poem that speaks to you, for whatever reason.
Read it. Copy and paste it to a Word Document.
At the bottom, answer:
1) Why'd you pick it? What about it "conects" with you?
2) What is empathy? Look it up in the dictionary.
3) Try to "walk in the shoes" of someone who is being bullied. What must it be like to feel like you have no hope, or to be that much in despair?
Print it out and put it in your folder.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Monday, April 22, 2013
Life Photo Essay formula
Some examples of Life photo essays:
Nurse Midwife
Country Doctor
One Ride with Yankee Papa 13
LIFE was a famous magazine a generation ago. People don’t really read it today, but it used to be a great source of photos and history. A lot of families read LIFE together to learn about the world.
Nurse Midwife
Country Doctor
One Ride with Yankee Papa 13
LIFE was a famous magazine a generation ago. People don’t really read it today, but it used to be a great source of photos and history. A lot of families read LIFE together to learn about the world.
As you might guess, LIFE employed a lot of photographers.When the photographer would go out, he or she made sure to
come back with certain pictures. This was the formula that the magazine makers wanted photographers to use:
1) Introductory picture – a wide angle or aerial shot that establishes the scene.
2) Medium – a picture that focuses on one activity or group.
3) Close up – zeroes in on one element, like a person’s hands, or an intricate detail.
4) Interaction – people conversing or in action, doing something.
5) Signature – a picture that summarizes the situation with all the key story telling elements in one photo – often called the decisive moment.
6) Portrait – usually a dramatic, well-focused picture of the subject’s head so you can see it clearly, or the person in his or her “natural” setting.
7) Sequence – can be a how-to series of pictures, a before or after, or a series with a beginning, middle and end. Gives the photo essay a sense of action.
8) Clincher – a closing picture that feels like the end of the story.
Go to life.time.com, click through the different decades, or go to life.time.com/history.
1) Introductory picture – a wide angle or aerial shot that establishes the scene.
2) Medium – a picture that focuses on one activity or group.
3) Close up – zeroes in on one element, like a person’s hands, or an intricate detail.
4) Interaction – people conversing or in action, doing something.
5) Signature – a picture that summarizes the situation with all the key story telling elements in one photo – often called the decisive moment.
6) Portrait – usually a dramatic, well-focused picture of the subject’s head so you can see it clearly, or the person in his or her “natural” setting.
7) Sequence – can be a how-to series of pictures, a before or after, or a series with a beginning, middle and end. Gives the photo essay a sense of action.
8) Clincher – a closing picture that feels like the end of the story.
Go to life.time.com, click through the different decades, or go to life.time.com/history.
Find a slideshow that really connects with you.
Identify the best picture from each of the 8 categories. Copy and paste them onto a Word Doc file.
Links to some good stop motion
Today's objectives:
- Check out your practice stop motions from last week.
- Find a "style" of stop motion that really connects with you.
- (If we have time), select a fairy tale that we will make as a class with stop motion.
http://spyrestudios.com/stunning-inspirational-stop-motion-videos/
- Check out your practice stop motions from last week.
- Find a "style" of stop motion that really connects with you.
- (If we have time), select a fairy tale that we will make as a class with stop motion.
http://spyrestudios.com/stunning-inspirational-stop-motion-videos/
Thursday, April 18, 2013
What makes a great photograph? Part 3
Check out any of the pictures from this search.
Check out these pictures of food
Today's objectives:
- Look at examples of great still-life photography.
- Practice taking INTENTIONAL pictures, or pictures that have a purpose.
- Try to get in the mind of professional photographers.
Check out these pictures of food
Today's objectives:
- Look at examples of great still-life photography.
- Practice taking INTENTIONAL pictures, or pictures that have a purpose.
- Try to get in the mind of professional photographers.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
What makes a great photograph? Part 2
Objectives:
- Get in the mind of a photojournalist.
- Read the story of a photojournalist in Syria, and about his award-winning work.
- Examine his work and try to figure out what makes it great.
- Understand a little bit about what's happening in Syria.
(Background: The Pulitzer Prize is awarded every year. It's the highest honor and award in journalism. Think the MVPs of journalism. Winners get $10,000 in addition to widespread recognition. On Monday, yesterday, the Putlizer Prizes were awarded for work done in 2012. One of the categories is photojournalism.)
First, we will read about Syria together as a class. There is a civil war going on in that country; the people are fighting the government.
Then we will look at a series of pictures by Javier Manzano, a Mexican-American photographer working in the Middle East/Europe and Asia. He was covering the war in Syria. Here are the series of pictures Manzano took that won the photojournalism feature Pulitzer Prize:
http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/Picture-from-a-war-earns-Pulitzer
1) Look at the pictures and read the captions.
2) Read what Manzano did to get the pictures. Click Here.
3) Answer the questions. Make meaning of this job.
- Get in the mind of a photojournalist.
- Read the story of a photojournalist in Syria, and about his award-winning work.
- Examine his work and try to figure out what makes it great.
- Understand a little bit about what's happening in Syria.
(Background: The Pulitzer Prize is awarded every year. It's the highest honor and award in journalism. Think the MVPs of journalism. Winners get $10,000 in addition to widespread recognition. On Monday, yesterday, the Putlizer Prizes were awarded for work done in 2012. One of the categories is photojournalism.)
First, we will read about Syria together as a class. There is a civil war going on in that country; the people are fighting the government.
Then we will look at a series of pictures by Javier Manzano, a Mexican-American photographer working in the Middle East/Europe and Asia. He was covering the war in Syria. Here are the series of pictures Manzano took that won the photojournalism feature Pulitzer Prize:
http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/Picture-from-a-war-earns-Pulitzer
1) Look at the pictures and read the captions.
2) Read what Manzano did to get the pictures. Click Here.
3) Answer the questions. Make meaning of this job.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
What makes a great photograph?
NY Times 1 in 8 million
New York Times photojournalism page
Other great photographs -
http://www.athousandandone.com/search/_views/
http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/
http://life.time.com/
Key terms for today:
-Photojournalism
-Composition
-Lighting and color
-Focus and depth of field
-Timeliness
-Point of view/objectivity/subjectivity
-Storytelling or narrative
New York Times photojournalism page
Other great photographs -
http://www.athousandandone.com/search/_views/
http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/
http://life.time.com/
Key terms for today:
-Photojournalism
-Composition
-Lighting and color
-Focus and depth of field
-Timeliness
-Point of view/objectivity/subjectivity
-Storytelling or narrative
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