Visual Journalism
Grading Percentages
- 50% quality of stories
- 35% quantity of stories (1 story due each week!)
quantity scale
100 = 10+ stories
95= 9 stories
90= 8 stories
80=7 stories
70= 6 stories
60= 5 stories
50 = 4 stories
40 = 3 stories
30= 2 stories
20= 1 story - 5% professionalism and initiative
- 10% classroom citizenship and work ethic
Important Photojournalism blogs
week 1
to learn
- camera review
- visual variety
- textbook/packet: checklist, rubric, finding and shooting a story, hierarchy of picture selection, types of shotscropping, counteracting reaction time
- photoshop review and limitations
- ken light
- why photojournalism is awesome
to do
- group visit to PE class
- story brainstorming
- bias in photojournalism video and worksheet
week 2
to learn
- textbook/packet: ethics, covering accidents and disasters, covering tragedies, where and when to shot, photographers rights, AP rules for photoshopping
- more advice on legal rights
- photo manipulations and article
- great caption example
- workflow for memo
- writing captions
to do
- practice writing captions
- shoot first story
- write captions for first story using template
- Freedom of Speech exercise
- recording law enforcement
- Review 9/11 Photos
week 3
to learn
- 10 ways to improve your stories
- intro to journalism ethics
- ethics – kevin carter case study
- dangers of photojournalism
- how to upload stories on memo
to do
- shoot second story
- write captions and put on memo
- summerize ethics – write one page bulleted list of ethics for yourself based on sources below
week 4
to learn
- headlines 1 2 3
- video: joel sartore or war photographer
- video: magnum
- what makes a contest winning photograph
to do
- shoot third story
- write captions and put story on memo
- show and tell with this week in photojournalism
- nat geo article review
week 5
to learn
- interview techniques – open ended questions, leading questions, more tips
- Video interview tips from Carol Marin
- how to making a boring scene interesting
to do
- shoot fourth story
- write captions and put story on memo
- watch a video on finding the frame, and write a half page critique of its strengths and weaknesse
week 6
to learn
- Is citizen journalism helping or hurting?
- https://vimeo.com/15302654
- short course on illustrator
to do
- shoot story
- write captions
- design static graphics for journalism with illustrator
week 7
to learn
- key traits of winning photojournalists
- video training: shooting
- video training: audio
to do
- shoot story
- write captions
week 8
to learn
- most important skill of a photojournalist
- video training: editing
to do
- shoot story
- write captions
week 9
to learn
- photojournalism cliches
- history of documentary film intro
- lumiere brothers films
- other early documentary shorts
to do
- shoot story
- write captions
- concise history of film video and worksheet
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week 10
to learn
- Man with a Movie Camera by vertov
- idiot with a tripod
to do
- shoot story
- write captions
- show and tell with this week in photojournalism
week 11
to learn
- advanced video editing
to do
- shoot story
- write captions
- Nanook of the North viewing and discussion
week 12
to learn
- more history of film
to do
- shoot story
- write captions
week 13
to learn
- refining videos
to do
- shoot story
- write captions
week 14
to learn
to do
- shoot story
- write captions
week 15
to learn
- begin to review for final
to do
- shoot story
- write captions
week 16
to learn
- final exam review
to do
- shoot story
- write captions
week 17
to learn
to do
- shoot story
- write captions
Class Resources
9/11 Photos
Multimedia Journalism (and when there is “nothing to do”)
- Finding the Frame
- NY Times media
- CNN Video
- Spokesman Review
- The Post
- LA Times
- LA Times advice
- MediaStorm
- Miami Herald
- Star Trib
- hs news online
Photojournalism
Examples
Photo Basics
- syllabus
- expectations
- ss ap examples
- camera basics
- shutter & aperture
- size & crop demo
- 10 ways
- storytelling progression
- active choices
- inside the frame
- more choices
- in class critique: learning to look
- rubric
- composition
Newsworthy
Captions
- perfect example of captions
- examples
- AP Style Cheat Sheet
- writing headlines
- more writing headlines
- active verbs
- tons of active verbs
- active vs passive
- more active vs passive
WordPress
- intro
- slideshows
- workflow
Ethics & Rights
- examples
- your rights
- 10 legal rights
- hazelwood
- libel
- the toll
- photography ethics
- ap ethics
- spj code of ethics
- online ethics
- bbc ethics
- new view of ethics
- editing and ethics
- bias
- editing pictures reading
- photo manipulation
- fair use
- fair use examples
- plagerism & fabrication
- Kevin Carter and ethics
- dangers of photojournalism
bias in reporting - example 1
- example 2
- example 3
- learning from nat geo
video: the photographers or war photographer
video: magnum
Audio Slideshows
introduction
- SF Gate examples
- pros and cons
- types of stories
- truth in audio
- sound editing ethics
- open ended questions
- leading questions
- overall interview tips
- interviewing advice video
- sound in the story
- ira glass on storytelling
- student examples and more info
recording techniques
using soundslides
- Audacity basics
- more info
- youtube tutorial
- using soundslides
- soundslides links
- free alternatives
- common mistakes
- writing for audio
- using free music
- music can be bad
examples
Videojournalism
Unit 7 – examples
Unit 8 – basics
- pj vs vj
- nctj training
- visual stories
- example of L cuts and good audio/video
- start out right
- sound pops example
- when and why to edit
- 5-10 rule +
- knight center
- creating good stories
- get creative
- be ethical
- storytelling
- 3 important steps
- tips to improve
- more advice and visual examples
- steady your shots
- 180 degree rule
- more 180
- types of shots
- more shot types
- rule of thirds again
- interview framing
- vox pops
- conducting the interview
- shooting b roll
- lots of stuff
- BBC interactive lessons
- music performances
Unit 9 – editing
- help yourself before you edit
- avchd to wmm
- where to start
- story building
- overlap cuts
- motion graphics
- media management
- techniques
- importance of l cuts
- split edit
- types of cuts
- video cut examples
- 7 sins
- fast vs slow cuts
- editing interviews
- continuity editing
- editing devices
- conceptual editing
- public domain footage
- premiere pro tutorials
- adobe tv
Other Links
- history of film resource
- vocab
- lens blog
- msnbc videos
- msnbc photo blog
- students rights
- royalty free music
- Free Music Archive
- obscenity
- students rights
- mastering multimedia
- lots o links
- even more links
- levalator
- journalism sites
- switch audio converter
- snagfilms
- honest truths pdf
- sub plans
