Photography
It will be your job to make sure our newspaper has the pictures it needs to help us tell a story. You may get assignments from a reporter or feature writer or you may decide to do your own photo journalism. It any case, being a School Yard Informer photographer is more than just strapping a camera around your neck and looking cool. You will be responsible for the following tasks, which include creating a portfolio of your five best pictures, including captions. Please complete the following tasks in order. At the bottom of your page, please print your rubric and refer to it while you work. And to smile ... you're on candid camera!
Step 1:
Create a work plan, brainstorming possible pictures to take. Use the Bubbl.us, an online brainstorming tool. (Ask Mrs.Allison for the library's username and password). Here's an example of my brainstorm ... take a look.
Step 2:Take a look at the New York Time's photography project "Moment in Time". In May 2010, the newspaper asked people from around the world to take a picture at the same time on the same date. They received thousands of photographs from around the globe. The results are amazing! Which pictures stood out to you and why? Was it because of the subject matter? Was it the composition (they way the picture was laid out)?What would you have taken a picture of? If you could take a picture right now, what would it be of?
Step 3:
Learn how to use a digital camera properly. We will be using a Canon point and shoot. Have any of your used a camera like this before? Can you share with Mrs.Allison if you have knowledge and you may be tapped to be a camera trainer for your classmates. Mrs. Allison will work with the group as a whole and then allow you to "play" with the cameras, to work out any glitches and to be sure everyone can operate them.
Step 4:Go back to your brainstorm on Bubbl.us and edit as needed. Work with one other photographer, reviewing each other's ideas. Then, get out and take some pictures! Remember, you may be assigned a subject or topic by the reporting staff. You are expected to collaborate with the writers. For every photograph you take, please take notes about the time, place, and names of the people in your pictures. You will be responsible for writing captions for the five photos you submit in your portfolio. I suggest you take along a clipboard and paper, to jot down notes as you take your pictures.
Step 5:
Submit a portfolio of pictures by the deadline (a portfolio consists of 5 of your best photographs, in both your opinion and that of your copy editor). You will save your pictures in two places. First, a portfolio will be listed as a folder with your name, under the Newspaper folder on public access. You will need to download your pictures onto a netbook, save your pictures as JPEG files, and insert into your folder. The second place you'll save your pictures is in our online version of The School Yard Informer. Please watch the following tutorial I made using Jing. Follow the directions. Please insert all five pictures from your portfolio, including captions.
Step 6:Type a brief (one paragraph) response in Word to the following prompt. You will need to save this into your portfolio file on the server along with your pictures.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Step 7:
Congratulations! Your work is almost complete! You have one more task left to do.
Step 1:
Create a work plan, brainstorming possible pictures to take. Use the Bubbl.us, an online brainstorming tool. (Ask Mrs.Allison for the library's username and password). Here's an example of my brainstorm ... take a look.
Step 2:Take a look at the New York Time's photography project "Moment in Time". In May 2010, the newspaper asked people from around the world to take a picture at the same time on the same date. They received thousands of photographs from around the globe. The results are amazing! Which pictures stood out to you and why? Was it because of the subject matter? Was it the composition (they way the picture was laid out)?What would you have taken a picture of? If you could take a picture right now, what would it be of?
Step 3:
Learn how to use a digital camera properly. We will be using a Canon point and shoot. Have any of your used a camera like this before? Can you share with Mrs.Allison if you have knowledge and you may be tapped to be a camera trainer for your classmates. Mrs. Allison will work with the group as a whole and then allow you to "play" with the cameras, to work out any glitches and to be sure everyone can operate them.
Step 4:Go back to your brainstorm on Bubbl.us and edit as needed. Work with one other photographer, reviewing each other's ideas. Then, get out and take some pictures! Remember, you may be assigned a subject or topic by the reporting staff. You are expected to collaborate with the writers. For every photograph you take, please take notes about the time, place, and names of the people in your pictures. You will be responsible for writing captions for the five photos you submit in your portfolio. I suggest you take along a clipboard and paper, to jot down notes as you take your pictures.
Step 5:
Submit a portfolio of pictures by the deadline (a portfolio consists of 5 of your best photographs, in both your opinion and that of your copy editor). You will save your pictures in two places. First, a portfolio will be listed as a folder with your name, under the Newspaper folder on public access. You will need to download your pictures onto a netbook, save your pictures as JPEG files, and insert into your folder. The second place you'll save your pictures is in our online version of The School Yard Informer. Please watch the following tutorial I made using Jing. Follow the directions. Please insert all five pictures from your portfolio, including captions.
Step 6:Type a brief (one paragraph) response in Word to the following prompt. You will need to save this into your portfolio file on the server along with your pictures.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Step 7:
Congratulations! Your work is almost complete! You have one more task left to do.
- Complete the following reflection on Survey Monkey on the last day of class. Use a netbook, be sure to fill in all forms, and reflect. Your input and suggestions will help me develop this unit and amend it as we go forward with our second edition. Thank you!
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