Continue work on the class sections. Review the names and make sure they are accurate.
Today, you'll work on picking a theme for the opening section on events -- Homecoming, Adopt-a-Kid, etc.
Log into the web site and look in the content section. Click on "Templates" and then look in the "photo focused" folder. Pick one or two templates that you like. For last year's book, we used 1256 last year. Find a couple that you like. 1256 can be used again if you choose. The students should log in to the Balfour site: sw.balfour.com
use the project number 516000 and their personal logins. (Remind the to work in Firefox.) When they are on the page ask them to click on the "content" tab on top of their page. Then, from the left hand column click the dropdown menu that reads "Balfour backgrounds." The students should go through the "covers 2014" and the "covers 2015" folders and each nominate two covers to use in this year's project. Ask them to create a word document and list their choices on it. They can t hen e-mail those choices to me at: [email protected] Read the slideshow on composition Today, try to take a series of shots that do the following: 1. are "flat" have shallow focus 2. are deep with deep focus 3. Frame your subject within a natural frame 4. Show an understanding of the rule of thirds 5. Have a leading line in the frame, creating depth across the frame. Create shots in the following scale 1. Long shot 2. medium long shot (three quarters or American shot) 3. medium shot with one or more subjects 4. medium closeup 5. closeup. 6. extreme closeup, of a face or an object.
This week we will begin with the process of interviewing subjects. This is a basic tool of journalists, regardless of who they work for and where they publish.
Sponge activity: answer the following questions:1. What is the inverted pyramid? How long is it?2. What type of questions are answered in an inverted pyramid opening? List all six if you can.3. Why type of news story uses the inverted pyramid? Interviewing for news stories works off the formula for the inverted pyramid You want to get detailed responses to the 5 W and the H questions. How can you get them? An interview is a formal conversation between a reporter and a subject, where the reporter gets information for their story. Be asking effective cue questions. These are questions which get your subject talking. What type of questions are those? Open ended questions, which surprisingly enough, work best when they open with who, what when, where, why and how. When did you first think of becoming a musician?Who do you trust the most in your family? Among your friends? Why?What book or movie had the biggest impact on your life? All of these questions get the subject to think and avoid the worst type of questions you can ask. The leading question, or the dead end question, which gives you yes or no answers. Exampe: do you think Obama is a good President? Do you like Eastside High? These types of questions get you one word answers and make it very hard for you as a reporter to flesh out your subject. What you get in your interview are direct quotes from your subject. Part II (20 minutes) Write a lead graf on this topic. Use an inverted pyramid structure. In and Out Burger is opening a restaurant just off the corner of I-35 and Airport Boulevard. Their sign was unveiled over the weekend and the main building's structure is already half up. Their opening date is not clear as of today. Research them online. Learn a little about the company history and their menu. Write your lead on their anticipated grand opening. Part III -- Pair with a classmate. You are going to interview them for a story. Take 15 minutes and create a list of cue questions you want to ask them, which will give you the best opening and interview possible. List those cue questions on your blog. Then for the next 15 minutes, interview each other. Write down your answers as accurately as possible. Part III In the last 20 minutes of class, write a lead in inverted pyramid style about your subject. Remember to answer as many of the 5W and H questions as you can. Also, remember to write in objective style and to refer to your subject in the third person. Click on the Journalism tab and follow the instructions on the Aperture Review and shutter speed lesson there.
Today, you will make a Powerpoint slide show that covers the class policies that are in the student handbook.
We have six major policies to enforce: Set-Up Every day, when you come into class, log into your computer and look for instruction on the left white board at the front of the room. Most of the time you'll come to the weebly site and start the warm-up assignment. Close Out I will prompt you five minutes before the close of each class. You will close your program and log out of your computer. If you are the last class of the day, put your chair on the table in front of your computer, so the custodians can sweep the floors. Wait until I prompt you to go to the door. 1. The 15/15 rule. You cannot go to the bathroom in the first 15 minutes or the last 15 minutes of class. 2. Six bathroom passes. Each student will get six bathroom passes per six weeks, or one per week. Use yours wisely. 3. Tardy policy -- If you arrive late and the class door is locked, you must go to the attendance office and get a pass. 4. Clothing -- Boys' and girls' dress must be appropriate. Clothes must not be too revealing. This applies to both genders. (No see through tops of spaghetti straps, ladies and no sagging pants, guys.) 5. Electronics policy -- The class has a red and green sign. Electronics are allowed when the green card is up. This means students can listen to music, if the sound cannot be heard by Mr. Vela. -- Texting and calling is not allowed during instruction, and when the red card is up. You will be asked to put the phone away and if you ignore the request, the phone will be picked up and held until the end of class. 6. Food and drink at the computers. Food is not allowed at the computers. Liquid containers with screw-tops or with pull-up tops are allowed. Open cans are not. You will be assigned to even and odd teams. If you are an even, make three slides for the even policies. If you get an odd number, make slides for the three odd-numbered policies. Be creative. You can change the color of the background, and I encourage you to find symbols and icons at google images and import them into your slides. The ladder is the list of events covered in a yearbook, in the order that they are published in the book.
Exercise One Take a copy of the 2014 yearbook Open a word document and put your name on it. Made a ladder of the book -- Use Roman numerals -- I, II, III, IV -- to number the sections in the book. -- use numbers -- 1, 2, 3, 4, -- to list the events in each section. Exercise Two Styles Styles refers to the page layouts and color schemes used in each part Answer these questions 1. What theme is used in the sections of the book? 2. Look at the sports section -- what color scheme was used in that section? Label each of the following shots as being: extreme long shot (XLS) long shot (LS) medium long shot (MLS) medium shot (MS) medium close up (MCU) close up (CU) extreme close up (XCU) You may use the acronym instead of the full name. Each shot is represented once. Answer on the exam sheet please! Shot 34 Shot 35 Shot 36 Shot 37 Shot 38 Shot 39 Shot 40 |
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