Merger photo

Painting picture

Architecture Photo Shoot

Shapes/Angles

Details

Light

Patterns

Surroundings

Writing a news lead

 Article 1
Who : Michael and Robert Meeropol
What: Their dad was a spy

When: September 16, 2008

Where: Sing Sing

Why: Delivering atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union
How: Blackmailed and accused
Lead: They were the most famous orphans of the cold war, only 6 and 10 years old in 1953 when their parents were executed at Sing Sing for delivering atomic-bomb secrets to the Soviet Union. Then they were whisked from an unwanted limelight to urban anonymity and eventually to suburban obscurity.
Re-written: Meeropol brothers fight for the protection of their parents lives.

 

Article 2

Who: Fishler

What: Releases copy of old comic book

When: Friday

Where: All over the world

Why: Wants the book to increase in value
How: Bidding online

Lead: Starting Friday, comic book collectors and Superman fans will have the opportunity to bid on a comic classic, an "unrestored" copy of Action Comic No. 1

Re-written: Superman fans excited about the release of the unrestored copy of Action Comic no. 1

Architecture shoot preview assignment

 Lights on buildings: I chose this picture because the lights really make the design of the picture pop out. This building stands out from the rest because it's colorful.

 Patterns on buildings: I picked this picture because with the building being symmetrical more people will be attracted to it. The symmetry makes the building unique.

 Surroundings of buildings: I picked this picture because the background of the building ties the whole picture together. This picture would be boring with just a plain city background.

Details on buildings: I picked this photo because the details on this building make it really interesting to look at. If I would've gotten a far away view of the building you wouldn't be able to see the details. 

Shapes on buildings: I picked this photo because the shape of the building really makes it stand out from the other buildings. If a building was just a square that would be boring to look at.

Architecture preview blog

1. Who is the architect (the person who built it)? Dave Longaberger

2. When was it built? December 17, 1997

3. Where is it located? Newark, Ohio

4. Is it a private building or can you visit it? Tours are available.

5. Is there information on how much it cost to build? $30 million

6. Is there a reason the building was created or the history of the building itself? Dave Longaberger and his wife eventually raised enough money to buy over the company from his father.

7. Why did you pick this building? (write at least a paragraph on this question) I picked this building because it was in the United States. It also had the words "basket building" next to it, and i've never seen a building in the shape of a basket, so I thought it would be pretty cool to check out.

 

1. Who is the architect (the person who built it)? Designed by Frank Gehry, built by Ferrovial.

2. When was it built? October 19, 1997

3. Where is it located? Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain

4. Is it a private building or can you visit it? Tours are available.

5. Is there information on how much it cost to build? $50 million

6. Is there a reason the building was created or the history of the building itself? Frank Gehry wanted to go down in history and be important and recognized for his cultural designing of this building.

7. Why did you pick this building? (write at least a paragraph on this question) I picked one from the United States already and I wanted to do one out of the country. I thought this building would be cool to do because buildings from different countries are usually always unique in design and color.

 

1. Who is the architect (the person who built it)? Conceived by Tim Smit and designed by architect Nicholas Grimshaw

2. When was it built? March 17, 2001

3. Where is it located? Cornwall, United Kingdom

4. Is it a private building or can you visit it? Tours are available.

5. Is there information on how much it cost to build? $86 million

6. Is there a reason the building was created or the history of the building itself? While Tim restored The Lost Gardens of Heligan, he became fascinated by how plants connect to peoples lives, so he decided to build a greenhouse for Cornwall, United Kingdom.

7. Why did you pick this building? (write at least a paragraph on this question) I picked this because i'm trying to pick buildings from different places in the world and this one was in a place I haven't picked yet. I also think that greenhouses are cool and these look like bubbles so I think that's neat too.

 

1. Who is the architect (the person who built it)? Santiago Calatrava

2. When was it built? August 27, 2005

3. Where is it located? Scandinavia, Sweden

4. Is it a private building or can you visit it? It's a private residential building, and public access is generally avoided.

5. Is there information on how much it cost to build? 1,5 billion swedish crowns

6. Is there a reason the building was created or the history of the building itself? Santiago Calatrava wanted people to live where if they wanted a view of the water or a view of the city, they could get which ever view they please.

7. Why did you pick this building? (write at least a paragraph on this question) I picked this building because I'm doing all different buildings from around the world. I knew if the name was "Turning Torso" then it would be some kind of spiral building.

 

1. Who is the architect (the person who built it)? Hung Kuo Group

2. When was it built? December 29, 2008,

3. Where is it located? Sanzhi, Taiwan

4. Is it a private building or can you visit it? It's a minor tourist attraction.

5. Is there information on how much it cost to build? Nothing found

6. Is there a reason the building was created or the history of the building itself? The buildings were demolished in 2008 because the budget cuts and leasing were too much to spend.

7. Why did you pick this building? (write at least a paragraph on this question) I picked this building because I wanted to do buildings from every place in the world, and I hadn't done this place yet. I also just picked this one randomly, and I wanted to see what "ufo houses" looked like in Taiwan.

Inverted pyramid

Elements of news

Proximity: http://austin.ynn.com/content/top_stories/284237/man-in-critical-condition-after-fire
Prominence: http://www.newser.com/story/76589/clueless-co-star-brittany-murphy-dead-at-32.html
Timeliness: http://rochester.ynn.com/content/top_stories/580988/kugler-case-waived-to-grand-jury/
Oddity: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/17/minneapolis-lake-monster-tweets-minnesota_n_1431920.html?ref=weird-news#s272967&title=Loch_Ness_Monster
Consequence: http://www.foreclosuredataonline.com/blog/foreclosure/consequences-foreclosure/
Conflict: http://www.radioaustralianews.net.au/stories/201204/3478800.htm?desktop
Human interest: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/mother-dies-after-being-shot-7-times-and-having-baby-stolen-in-kidnapping-plot/

5 w's and H's

Article 1
Who? The captain that fell asleep.
Who is involved? Everyone on the Air Canada flight 878 from Toronto to Zurich flight.
Who does/did the situation affect? It affected everyone on the flight.
Who said so? The CNN news channel.
What is happening? The plane thought the other plane was venus.
What did happen? The plane dove under the other plane, injuring many passengers.
What are the consequences? People got injured.
What is different about this? Planes don't usually dive like that and injure people.
What are the choices? The captain should've only gone to sleep for the right time.
When? January 14, 2011.
When did or will this happen? January 13, 2011.
When was this discovered? January 14, 2011.
Where? In the plane on the way to Zurich.
Where did or will this happen? It happened on the flight to Zurich in Zurich.
Why? The pilot fell asleep for longer than 40 minutes.
Why did this happen or will it happen? The pilot was fatigue and seeing things.
How? The pilot pulled back on the control column to increase altitude.
How did it or will it happen? The pilot missed the other plane mistaking it for venus and injuring passengers.
How much does it cost?
How many people does this affect? 14 passengers were injured.
How do you feel about this? I think the pilot should be fully awake and alert at all times.
Who?
Who is involved?
Who does/did the situation affect?
Who said so?

Article 2
What? 6 year old student got handcuffed.
What is happening? A 6 year old damaged school property and assaulted the principal and got arrested.
What did happen?The police decided not to charge her because of her age.
What are the consequences? She got kicked out of schoo and couldn't return until August.
What is different about this? 6 year olds don't relaly act up that badly.
What are the choices? Let the girl act up or arrest her.
When? Tuesday
When did or will this happen? During the school day.
When was this discovered? The next day.
Where? Georgia
Where did or will this happen? Creekside Elementary School
Why? The 6 year old threw a tantrum in the principals office.
Why did this happen or will it happen? The 6 year old was upset and screaming and crying on the floor.
How? The 6 year old was throwing bookshelves and glass things and fighting with the principal.
How did it or will it happen? The police went down to the school and arrested the child.
How much does it cost?
How many people does this affect? The child, the school, the police, and the childs family.
How do you feel about this? I think she shouldnt've been hand cuffed, because she's so young.

Article 3
Who? Austin Fisher
Who is involved? Austin, his mom, and the school board.
Who does/did the situation affect? Austin,his mom, and the school board.
Who said so? The school board.
What? Austin gets to graduate with the senior class.
What is happening? Austin missed too many days of school because he was helping his mom fight cancer.
What did happen? Austin got to walk across the stage and officially graduate.
What are the consequences? The school board might have made a bad decision.
What is different about this? Students aren't supposed to get to graduate with too many absences.
What are the choices? Let him or not let him graduate.
When? Year round.
When did or will this happen? The decision was made on Monday afternoon.
When was this discovered? Fall 2011.
Where? In a small town in Ohio.
Where did or will this happen? Carrollton school district.
Why? Austin wanted to graduate but he had too many absences.
Why did this happen or will it happen? The school board decided he missed school because of a good cause and let him graduate.
How much does it cost?
How many people does this affect? The school board, Austin, and his family.

Student of the month

QUESTIONS:
1. What are your feelings about being student of the month?
2. What are your grades?
3. Do you do any extra curricular activities at school?
4. Do you do any extra curricular activities out of school?
5. Is your family excited?
6. What teachers recommended you to be student of the month?
7. What's your favorite class?
8. Do you think you deserve to be student of the month?
9. Did you work hard to achieve this?
10. What's your best subject?
11. Do you think the school administrators are impressed with your work?
12. Did you expect to become student of the month?
13. What did you have to do to achieve this goal?
14. How did the teachers choose the student of the month?
15. Do you think this was a hard decision for them to make?
16. What does it mean to be student of the month?
17. Is it put on your student record if you become student of the month?
18. Did you get any awards for being student of the month?
19. Do people congratulate you and tell you how lucky you are?
20. Do you get any advice from your parents about school?

Interview

1. I could interview the principal, a student, or a teacher at Akins.

QUESTIONS:
1. Do you think people will like the new dress code?
2. How will it affect the schools?
3. How does this dress code make you feel?
4. Do you think the dress code is a good idea?
5. Do you think people will follow the new dress code?
6. Is every school going to have a different dress code?
7. Will elementary school, middle school, and high school all have to have dress codes?
8. How would you enforce the dress code?
9. Why do schools have dress codes?
10. Who makes the decisions about the dress codes?
11. Do you think students will make more friends and build better relationships with people?
12. Will students go against the dress code?
13. Will parents be upset about this new dress code?
14. Shouldn't students have the freedom to dress however they want?
15. What will be the new dress code?
16. Will the teachers have to follow this dress code too?
17. How good will the dress code be enforced?
18. Do you think this will stop the bullying issues?
19. Will every school in Texas be following this dress code?
20. Are dress codes a violation of students rights?

Sports action photo shoot

Travis charging towards me like a crazy guy. He tripped over his own foot at one point in this photo.

Travis running towards Felicia with the football in his hands. He threw it at her after this picture was taken.

A silver honda driving by the basketball court. The car was speeding down the road extremely fast.

Felicia lifting up her leg for a pose. That's what diamond dazzlers are supposed to do, right?



Caption and evaluation practice

Headline: Masked criminal sets items on fire for selfish pleasure.
Caption: An anonymous person lights a bottle on fire with SWAT right behind him in the middle of the big apple on 9/11 for a memorial service. He was trying to represent how much he hates the terrorist attack of 9/11.

This photo has the rule "viewing" in it because it's at an interesting angle and the background is just a simple sky and there's no confusion or clutter in the photo, so this could also be framing because the grass and hills frame the horses.

 

This photo contains the rules "create depth" and "framing". The ocean and the sky frame the sinking boat. The rule create depth is shown because you can see the boat in the background so that creates visual depth for the viewer.

This photo contains the rules "symmetry" and "patterns and cropping". The editor of this photo shouldn't have cut out the person on the lefts head and the person on the rights other half of their body. This has symmetry because there's about the same number of lanterns on each side of this photo.

Yearbook spread

Sports/Action more details

Runner up video

Name of photographer- Alyssa Schukar

General focus of portfolio- Eating disorders

3 problems that the judges note- Same lens used, each picture has the same emotions shown, and the same distance.

2 things the judges like- The blue and grey background in the alley in the Caribbean photo, and the girl who fell over the hurdle with only the opponents legs showing.

My overall impression- I thought this video was okay, it could’ve been a lot better, the pictures all kind of looked the same and showed the same emotions.  Funky angles and lighting would’ve been better.

Winner video

Judges strengths- The bowtie picture color and composition, everyone in the basketball picture is doing something, the bubbles picture was cool, photographer is right in the middle of the photos.

What I see as strengths and weaknesses- I like how the photographer got close to his subjects, the background of the football picture is plain and simple, the emotions on the basketball girls faces, too much photo shop on the pitcher picture.

Contest recap video

The process the judges went through to pick a winner- Had to go through everyone’s portfolios and describes the strengths and weaknesses of every photo, describes the stories of the portfolios, and evaluates the comparison of the stories to the photos.

Part 2 individual images

Photo that you agree with judges on and explain why you and the judges do or do not like it- I agree with the judges on the boxing photo in the part 1 category action because I like the action and the referee standing in the background makes the photo even better. The cropping is good and the action is good.

Photo that you don’t agree with the judges on and explain why you think the judges are wrong- I think the 3 baseball squares photo in the part 2 category no pro/ no college was really interesting to look at and there’s different kinds of action in each photo, it’s like a timeline of events happening. I don’t agree with the judges saying it’s boring.

Blog for 3/21/12

1. What do you think about this project and photo essay?
I think it's interesting because I would've never thought of a photo essay about touching strangers. The way he words things just tie everything together.

2. What would you do if someone approached you with a camera and asked you to participate in a photo shoot and then asked you to touch a stranger?
I would do it, i'm not scared of touching random people, it would be fun to participate in.

3. Think of an unusual photo shoot similar to this one that you think would be fun to go and shoot.
Underwater photoshoots are cool.

4. Finally, tell me what you thought of the photography, did the photographer think about the rules of photography that you know about? What types of photos did he take?
Yes, he used the same rule over and over again, simplicity.

Japan Earthquake

This photo makes me wonder why everything gets so destroyed in earthquakes. This photo makes me scared because that could happen to me one day! This is partially a symmetrical photo.

This photo makes me sad. The womans face is red and you can tell she's crying. This photo is simple, it has a normal background.

This photo makes me happy to see that everyone is safe and sound in blankets. This photo is a merger because some people and their blankets are cut off the picture.

Newspaper spread

Newspaper notes

• 2 sizes of newspapers, first size is like school newspaper called "broad sheet".
• Other size newspaper is called "tabloid".
• The flag has the name of the paper in it.
• The top photo is called the teaser.
• Folio- W. Charles Akins High School under teaser photo.
• Folio- The title of the newspaper, the date, page #, name of the section, a slogan or motto.
• Headlines need to draw attention, be creative.
• Subheadlines should be below headlines, subheadline gives more details about the story.
• Photo captions have caption headlines, grabs attention, gives inside about the picture, give credit to the photographer, 2 sentences makes a good caption, 1st sentence describes what goes on in the picture (who, what, when, where, why, how) and 2nd sentence is background info about the picture.
• Bi line should have the persons name and the position they are.
• Have to have stories.
• Info graphics, info in graphic form, additional info not in the story, in fun little creative box.
• The table of contents should be on the front page, the volume number and the issue #, and barcode (?)
• The staff box is in every paper, the names of staff and position, organizations we belong to, and the policy is written in the staff box.

Front pages of the world

1. The Oregonian because the title is cool and I love Oregon.
2. My favorite headline is "Sea lions may lose their spot" because it talks about how to save the sea lions and it's so in detail.
3. 6 stories
4. They all have columns of texts that look very boring.
5. The pictures on the front pages vary from being tall to wide to big to small.

Yearbook info

School name: Stephen F. Austin Hiogh School
School location, exact location: 3434 Pheasant Creek Drive Sugar Land, Texas 78748
School size: 2,823
How many pages is the book?: 327
How many sections are in the book?: 
List the sections in the book: Student life, People, Sports, Clubs and Academies, and In A Split Second.
What sports are played at that school?: Football, volleyball, cross country, golf, tennis, swimming, basketball, soccer, baseball, softball, track, and cheerleading.
Give me a list of some of the clubs a student could join at that school?: NHS, student council, basically model united nations, art national honor society, academic challenge, science club, aquatic science NOSB, H.O.S.A, FFA, debate club, co-op, newspaper, giving a helping hand. i'm loving it, a day to remember, a little time, first blood, and eat and greet.
What are the school colors?: Red, black and white.
What is the theme of the book?: In a split second.
What thematic elements are present throughout the book?: The heart monitor.
How many years has the book been published?: 6 years
Who is the editor-in-chief of the book?: Caitlyn Onks.
Who is the advisor?: Caitlyn Onks.
What  is your favorite spread in the book?: The cheerleading spread.
What do you like about this book?: The school colors.
What would you change if you were working on that book?: I would change the pictures. They're all blurry and everyone has red eyes.
Would you like to go to that school?: Maybe..
Why would you or would you not like to go to that school?: I would like to go to it because the volleyball team is successful, but then  again I wouldn't like to go to it because the photography program doesnt look very fun.

Magazine cover

Magazine covers

1. Early magazine covers- The modeled these covers after book covers most of the time. They are richly decorated and symmetric. They dedicated the opening page to a title and table of contents. They also put descriptive words to describe the magazine on the cover too.

2. The poster cover- The cover picture wasnt related to the magazine, it depicted a "mood" in the reader. Not alot of words on the cover. The covers have to have a single focus, with a hint of a theme. Gives some kind of physical impression on you.

3. Pictures married to type- Lots of words on the cover. Lots of lines on the cover, cover lines draw attention to the cover. Looks like an advertisement cover. Photos play the role for the cover. Color seperation. Large title with models face covering it.

4. In the forest of words- Very vivid and cluttered. Cover lines were as important as the cover picture. Some have cover lines larger then the title itself. The cover reflects the culture of the time being. Bold graphic covers. Image and cover lines overlap usually.

Edited photos for contest

I think this is a good happy photo because the subject is smiling.

I think this is a good building photo because the "dark" black and white color makes it look older.

I think this represents Akins because the mascot is an eagle.

Welcome back blog

 

                                       I like this photo because the people show good emotions.

                                          I like this photo because my favorite color is purple.

I like this photo because the drama in the sky is awesomely captured.

1.

I loved the song "Someone like you" by Adele because it relates to my life. It makes me think of everyone else and their relationships. I want people to happy, and nthis song is sad, so I think people that are depressed shouldn't listen to this song.

2.

I liked this movie the best because it was hilarious. The movie is about 3 guys that get lost in Vegas because they got drunk. Their names are Allen, Stew, and Doug.

3.

I thought this was the best news story. Osama Bin Laden was a really bad guy, and he deserved to die for all the pain he caused the world. This was the biggest news story in 2011. 

4.

 The world series game was against the St. Louis Cardinals and the Texas Rangers. The cardinals won the 11th title. They played on October 28, 2011.

MY HOLIDAY!

1. My dad from Oregon visited for christmas.

2. My resolutions are to try to make straight a's and stay in volleyball and get in yearbook when i'm a sophomore.

3. I'm looking forward to playing volleyball and doing yearbook when im a sophomore.

Choice sheet

Happy ^

Building ^

Akins ^