Thursday, May 15, 2014
Friday, May 9, 2014
Statesman
http://video.statesman.com/Crash-splits-car-in-half-in-South-Austin-25894972?playlistId=15517#.U20M6Bxgq6Y
I chose this video because it was something that affected the entire city. Even though I didn't know either kids personally, many of my friends did and are still in shock from the terrible events that took place only a few days ago. I know everyone is mourning this awful loss.
Contests Preview, Show and Tell
Fall Photo Contests
The lighting on this image makes the items on the picture stand out significantly. The composition leads the eye all over the image.
The way this was put together captured my eye. Each part of it throws your eye off to another.
The composition of this lead to me choosing it. The exposure lead to the reflection and how it seems clear and blurry on either ends of the image.
Monday, May 5, 2014
5 Websites #2
1. What Is Distortion?
http://photographylife.com/what-is-distortion
-This link brought me to different forms of distortion and what each of them really are. I looked at perspective, rectilinear, curvilinear, mustache, pincushion, and barrel distortion. Each section showed me what to do/use to make this specific perspective.
-I learned all the different settings and lenses to achieve certain distortions.
-I can use this information in taking pictures in later photo-shoots.
-I did not learn anything new about an adobe program, just the camera.
2. Photo Series of a Young Girl Dressed Up as Great Women Throughout History
http://petapixel.com/2013/05/11/photo-series-of-a-young-girl-dressed-up-as-great-women-throughout-history/
-I looked at pictures and a short summary of the story of a 5 year old girl who did something amazing. She dressed up as many aspiring women instead of the cliche princess.
-I learned different ways to capture a moment in life.
3. Aquatilis Expedition
http://www.awwwards.com/web-design-awards/aquatilis-expedition
-I looked at a book of the work of an underwater expedition. There were many unfound creatures and unknown things that are shown.
-I learned about the expedition and how they captured the images underwater.
http://photographylife.com/what-is-distortion
-This link brought me to different forms of distortion and what each of them really are. I looked at perspective, rectilinear, curvilinear, mustache, pincushion, and barrel distortion. Each section showed me what to do/use to make this specific perspective.
-I learned all the different settings and lenses to achieve certain distortions.
-I can use this information in taking pictures in later photo-shoots.
-I did not learn anything new about an adobe program, just the camera.
2. Photo Series of a Young Girl Dressed Up as Great Women Throughout History
http://petapixel.com/2013/05/11/photo-series-of-a-young-girl-dressed-up-as-great-women-throughout-history/
-I looked at pictures and a short summary of the story of a 5 year old girl who did something amazing. She dressed up as many aspiring women instead of the cliche princess.
-I learned different ways to capture a moment in life.
3. Aquatilis Expedition
http://www.awwwards.com/web-design-awards/aquatilis-expedition
-I looked at a book of the work of an underwater expedition. There were many unfound creatures and unknown things that are shown.
-I learned about the expedition and how they captured the images underwater.
-I picked this because it was one of the many interesting creatures found on the expedition.
-I see lighting and leading lines of the animal.
-The photographer is unknown.
4. What is Vignetting?
http://photographylife.com/what-is-vignetting
-I learned about what vignetting is. It is the darkening of the image corners compared to the center of the image.
-I learned how to manipulate this tool and the different types of it.
-I can use this when I shoot later in class and edit.
-It expanded my knowledge of photoshop.
5.DIY - High Speed Photography at Home
http://www.diyphotography.net/diy_high_speed_photography_at_home/
-I looked at how to do high speed photography anytime and anywhere. I saw different setups to capture these images also.
-I learned how to set up my camera to capture a high speed image.
-I can use this for my final project.
-It only expanded my knowledge of the camera.
Thursday, May 1, 2014
HDR Photography
1. HDR stands for high dynamic range.
2. HDR is used to reproduce a greater range of luminosity than possible using standard digital imaging techniques.
3. Exposure bracketing is when the photographer chooses to take one picture at a given exposure, one or more brighter, and one or more darker, in order to select the most satisfactory image.
4. Exposure bracketing is not possible with video.
2. HDR is used to reproduce a greater range of luminosity than possible using standard digital imaging techniques.
3. Exposure bracketing is when the photographer chooses to take one picture at a given exposure, one or more brighter, and one or more darker, in order to select the most satisfactory image.
4. Exposure bracketing is not possible with video.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Using iMovie
Media Commons:
1. First off, the website shows you the different parts of iMovie. The project workspace, the event library, and the timeline. It also shows how what to use to edit, the edit project section. We are also shown the toolbar and things on it.
It first shows you how to create a new project. It then goes into importing files from your computer. Next is editing workflow between the event and project libraries. Finally, is basic editing in timeline.
2. I knew nothing about iMovie before.
3. I learned how to edit clips.
Knowledge Innovation:
1. This article starts off with how to do basic things such as connecting the camera and showing us the controls. It then has smaller files with things such as creating a new project, importing a video, adding clips and media, and adjusting clips.
Next are the more complex ideas on descriptions on the ideas above. They are explained more in detail here. There is also a full introduction to iMovie.
2. I knew nothing about iMovie before.
3. I learned how to trim a clip.
4. I am concerned about finding a topic that I can portray easily and effectively through video.
5. I am confident that I can get all the needed images.
6. I was thinking of starting a small garden in my backyard and documenting my experience of purchasing seeds, plainting them, and watching them grow.
1. First off, the website shows you the different parts of iMovie. The project workspace, the event library, and the timeline. It also shows how what to use to edit, the edit project section. We are also shown the toolbar and things on it.
It first shows you how to create a new project. It then goes into importing files from your computer. Next is editing workflow between the event and project libraries. Finally, is basic editing in timeline.
2. I knew nothing about iMovie before.
3. I learned how to edit clips.
Knowledge Innovation:
1. This article starts off with how to do basic things such as connecting the camera and showing us the controls. It then has smaller files with things such as creating a new project, importing a video, adding clips and media, and adjusting clips.
Next are the more complex ideas on descriptions on the ideas above. They are explained more in detail here. There is also a full introduction to iMovie.
2. I knew nothing about iMovie before.
3. I learned how to trim a clip.
4. I am concerned about finding a topic that I can portray easily and effectively through video.
5. I am confident that I can get all the needed images.
6. I was thinking of starting a small garden in my backyard and documenting my experience of purchasing seeds, plainting them, and watching them grow.
Monday, April 21, 2014
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
The Big Day
A man is driving in a hurry to get to the wedding of an assumed past girlfriend to stop it. He runs into many obstacles on the way. We can see the worry in both the man driving and the older man, the assumed father of the bride to whether or not he will make it on time. The man ends up arriving too late.
Who- a past boyfriend
What- is in a hurry
Where- the church
When- before the wedding starts
Why- to stop it
How- in his new VW jetta
The past boyfriend of the soon to be bride hurries down a long winding road through the rain, coming face to face with many obstacles as he tries to reach the church before the bride is officially married. Both the man and the father of the bride sit in worry as they wonder if he will make it on time. The bride also wonders if her past love will make it before she's married to sweep her away. Although he faces many challenges, his new Jetta VR6 stands to the test carrying him through the horrible weather and leading him to his destination. He finally arrives at the church to find that he is too late. Both the man and bride are both devastated.
Who- a past boyfriend
What- is in a hurry
Where- the church
When- before the wedding starts
Why- to stop it
How- in his new VW jetta
The past boyfriend of the soon to be bride hurries down a long winding road through the rain, coming face to face with many obstacles as he tries to reach the church before the bride is officially married. Both the man and the father of the bride sit in worry as they wonder if he will make it on time. The bride also wonders if her past love will make it before she's married to sweep her away. Although he faces many challenges, his new Jetta VR6 stands to the test carrying him through the horrible weather and leading him to his destination. He finally arrives at the church to find that he is too late. Both the man and bride are both devastated.
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Architecture Preview Blog 2
Angles and Shapes
I chose this because there are many different angles and shapes basically that your eye attracts to. They are also not plain rectangles and right angles.
Details
I chose detail because there are many small ideas inside this picture. There is the walls which have pattern, to the window that looks very busy, to the feathers which are the main aspect.
Light
I chose light because the light is reflecting the building back onto the water. Also, there are the light rays coming out from behind the building where we can tell the light source is.
Surroundings
I chose surroundings because we can see a little bit of everyday life in the back left corner. We are shown the entire building and part of the city.
Pattern
I chose pattern because we can see the bricks on the building which in turn make a pattern themselves. Each is the same size and is placed to make the same row and shape making the pattern.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Architecture Preview Blog 1
Burj Al Arab, Dubai, UAE
1. Tom Wright and Carlos Ott
2. December 1999
3. Dubai
4. public
5. $650 million USD
6. It was created as a hotel.
7. I picked this building because it was something of past knowledge to me. I had already known a little bit about it. My dad visited this building last year and got to tell us some interesting things about it. I think that it is also a very eye appealing structure. It attracts your eye immediately with its unique shape.
Eden project, United Kingdom
1. Nicholas Grimshaw
2. May 2000
3. United Kingdom
4. public
5. 140 million euros
6. It was created as a natural biome.
7. I chose this building because it was something that automatically caught my eye. It is very unique and I'm not surprised if many others choose this too. It has a very cool aspect to it. I really chose it because I'm curious about it. How did they make something like that?
Kansas City Public Library, United States
1. unknown
2. March 2004
3. Missouri
4. public
5. $50 million USD
6. It was created to be a library.
7. I chose this because it is very interesting to me. Things like this really get my mind going. It is really unlike anything I've ever seen. Someone must have had a great imagination to come up with something so awesome.
Hundertwasserhaus (Forest Spiral, The Hundertwasser Building), Germany
1. Heinz M. Springmann
2. 2000
3. Germany
4. public
5. $750 million USD
6. It is an apartment complex.
7. I chose this because it was something that caught my eye. It looks like something out of a Dr. Suess book. I honestly clicked on it because of the long and difficult name. I knew that it'd be that weird it had to be interesting.
Guggenheim Museum, Spain
1. Frank Gehry
2. 1997
3. Spain
4. public
5. $100 million USD
6. It was created as an art museum.
7. I chose this because its very interesting. There are a lot of different aspects to it and it leads your eye all over the place. It is very unique and I would like to learn more about it and the history behind it.
Monday, March 31, 2014
Action Preview Assignment
1. The man is very still and even though there is a lot of motion in the picture, the elements stand still.
2. Shutter speed is the time for which a shutter is open at a given setting.
3. Key moment is the defining moment of the game. This may or may not have been planned.
4. Action is most definitely present. The moment was frozen.
5.
2. Shutter speed is the time for which a shutter is open at a given setting.
3. Key moment is the defining moment of the game. This may or may not have been planned.
4. Action is most definitely present. The moment was frozen.
5.
Nut Graf
The nut graf is a term used for the sentences within a story that describe the story itself. The nut graf puts the story in context and tells people why the story matters. The nut graf is said to be the most important part of the story, since its telling the reader what the story is actually about.
Student of the Month Story
In March of 2014, Alyssa Mota was chosen to receive the student of the month award. She worked day in and day out for such an honor.
Her teachers nominated her for this award because of her dedication to her school work and involvement in after school activities. They thought she was a well rounded person who deserved such an honor.
"I was very surprised to achieve this award," Alyssa explained.
Her influencers all helped to push her to her limits and helped her stay on the track to success. Each day she had something new to do and every time, with a lot of work, she conquered each and every goal.
"I do think I deserved this award," Alyssa said as she praised herself.
English being Alyssa's favorite and best subject, helped her reach her goal especially. She always kept her grades up in this class and being her teachers star student, had a great recommendation.
"Alyssa is a hard worker who is always going above and beyond," her English teacher told sources. "I was more than proud to help her grab this award."
One of Alyssa's best supporters was her mom. She was always reminding Alyssa to do all her work and telling her to think of her goal as she found herself in doubt.
"My mom always showed me the most support," Alyssa said.
Alyssa and her mom have always been very close in helping each other out. Her mom, with her own goals.
"Alyssa is an amazing girl and a hard worker who deserves all this and more," exclaimed her mom.
Now that she has this award, people have been treating Alyssa differently around school. They see her in a new light.
"The best part about winning is the pride I now have," Alyssa explained.
Alyssa was very happy with her chances at being student of the month and would be more than happy to win this award again.
Her teachers nominated her for this award because of her dedication to her school work and involvement in after school activities. They thought she was a well rounded person who deserved such an honor.
"I was very surprised to achieve this award," Alyssa explained.
Her influencers all helped to push her to her limits and helped her stay on the track to success. Each day she had something new to do and every time, with a lot of work, she conquered each and every goal.
"I do think I deserved this award," Alyssa said as she praised herself.
English being Alyssa's favorite and best subject, helped her reach her goal especially. She always kept her grades up in this class and being her teachers star student, had a great recommendation.
"Alyssa is a hard worker who is always going above and beyond," her English teacher told sources. "I was more than proud to help her grab this award."
One of Alyssa's best supporters was her mom. She was always reminding Alyssa to do all her work and telling her to think of her goal as she found herself in doubt.
"My mom always showed me the most support," Alyssa said.
Alyssa and her mom have always been very close in helping each other out. Her mom, with her own goals.
"Alyssa is an amazing girl and a hard worker who deserves all this and more," exclaimed her mom.
Now that she has this award, people have been treating Alyssa differently around school. They see her in a new light.
"The best part about winning is the pride I now have," Alyssa explained.
Alyssa was very happy with her chances at being student of the month and would be more than happy to win this award again.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Student of the Month
Who- Alyssa Mota
What- has been elected for student of the month
When- March 2014 school year
Where- Bowie High School
Why- her hard-work and dedication to education
How- encouragement from friends and family
Alyssa Mota of Bowie High School, won the March spot for student of the month by her hard work and encouragement from others.
Her teachers nominated her for this award because of her dedication to her school work and involvement in after school activities. They thought she was a well rounded person who deserved such an honor.
What- has been elected for student of the month
When- March 2014 school year
Where- Bowie High School
Why- her hard-work and dedication to education
How- encouragement from friends and family
Alyssa Mota of Bowie High School, won the March spot for student of the month by her hard work and encouragement from others.
Her teachers nominated her for this award because of her dedication to her school work and involvement in after school activities. They thought she was a well rounded person who deserved such an honor.
School Uniforms
1. Do you want a uniform?
2. Why would/wouldn't you want one?
3. Do you think the guys and girls should have different uniforms?
4. What are the pros to having uniforms?
5. What are the cons?
6. Do you like the uniforms?
7. What do you like about them if anything?
8. Do you think you should be allowed to accessorize?
9. If you could make one change to the uniforms what would it be?
10. Does the uniform appeal to your fashion sense?
11. What do you think the other students feel about not being able to chose what they wear?
12. What do you think about not being able to chose what you wear?
13. Do you think students will rebel more with uniforms?
14. Do you think uniforms take away freedoms?
15. Do you think students will now be more focused?
16. What is the downside of not being able to see who is who in the school?
17. Can students still express themselves?
18. If so, how do you think they can?
19. Do uniforms present the school in a better light? If so, how?
20. Why do you think uniforms are now enforced?
2. Why would/wouldn't you want one?
3. Do you think the guys and girls should have different uniforms?
4. What are the pros to having uniforms?
5. What are the cons?
6. Do you like the uniforms?
7. What do you like about them if anything?
8. Do you think you should be allowed to accessorize?
9. If you could make one change to the uniforms what would it be?
10. Does the uniform appeal to your fashion sense?
11. What do you think the other students feel about not being able to chose what they wear?
12. What do you think about not being able to chose what you wear?
13. Do you think students will rebel more with uniforms?
14. Do you think uniforms take away freedoms?
15. Do you think students will now be more focused?
16. What is the downside of not being able to see who is who in the school?
17. Can students still express themselves?
18. If so, how do you think they can?
19. Do uniforms present the school in a better light? If so, how?
20. Why do you think uniforms are now enforced?
Friday, March 21, 2014
Learning to Interview
Interview Questions for Student of the Month
1. What is your name?
Alyssa
2. What grade are you in?
10th
3. Why do you think you got this award?
Because I deserved it.
4. Were you surprised that you were chosen?
Yes
5. What's your best subject?
English
6. What's your least favorite?
Math
7. What would you like to do one day as a career?
Baker
8. What college would you like to attend to help you become this one day?
Houston State
9. What role models helped you decide this?
My 2 childhood friends.
10. What advice could you give to others to help them achieve this goal?
Don't let anyone stand in your way.
11. What extra circular activities do you participate in?
none
12. How do you think they helped you in achieving this goal?
none
13. Is there anyone you'd like to thank?
Mom
14. Why do you think they helped you in any way?
Showed support.
15. Did you think you were going to win?
No
16. Do you feel like anyone else deserves this award?
Yes
17. What is the best part of winning?
The pride.
18. Do you feel like people will treat you different now?
Yes
19. How do you think you could improve our school?
Help others achieve this goal.
20. Would you like to win this award again?
Yes
1. What is your name?
Alyssa
2. What grade are you in?
10th
3. Why do you think you got this award?
Because I deserved it.
4. Were you surprised that you were chosen?
Yes
5. What's your best subject?
English
6. What's your least favorite?
Math
7. What would you like to do one day as a career?
Baker
8. What college would you like to attend to help you become this one day?
Houston State
9. What role models helped you decide this?
My 2 childhood friends.
10. What advice could you give to others to help them achieve this goal?
Don't let anyone stand in your way.
11. What extra circular activities do you participate in?
none
12. How do you think they helped you in achieving this goal?
none
13. Is there anyone you'd like to thank?
Mom
14. Why do you think they helped you in any way?
Showed support.
15. Did you think you were going to win?
No
16. Do you feel like anyone else deserves this award?
Yes
17. What is the best part of winning?
The pride.
18. Do you feel like people will treat you different now?
Yes
19. How do you think you could improve our school?
Help others achieve this goal.
20. Would you like to win this award again?
Yes
Monday, March 17, 2014
News Values
Timeliness-
This article was updated 2 minutes ago according to the National News website.
"SXSW crash claims 3rd life"
Texas — A third person died Monday from injuries sustained in last week's tragedy in which a drunk driver plowed through a crowd outside a nightclub at the South By Southwest music festival.A car hit the victim, Sandy Le, on Thursday outside The Mohawk nightclub, according to the Travis County Medical Examiner's Office.Le was an Austin resident but was a native of Pass Christian, Miss., according to her family.Jamie West, 27, of Austin; and Steven Craenmehr, 35, of Amsterdam, were killed. Twenty-two others were injured. Seven people remain hospitalized.Rashad Owens, 21, of Killeen, Texas, has been charged with capital murder and aggravated assault with a motor vehicle. He's accused of driving drunk, fleeing from police and intentionally driving into a crowd of festival-goers.Police say Craenmehr was on a bicycle, and West was on a moped with her husband. West's husband remains in the hospital.SXSW ended its 28th year early Sunday.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/17/sxsw-accident-third-death/6523431/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/17/sxsw-accident-third-death/6523431/
Proximity-
This article has to do with proximity because it is referring to Austin schools.
"Austin schools tally 1,000 students who intentionally hurt themselves"
This article was taken from the front page of the Statesman.
Prominence-
This article represents this category because this is a big conflict and topic in the news now and for the past few days.
"India Suspends Its Search for Flight 370"
PORT BLAIR, India — After scouring more than 24,000 nautical square miles, India on Sunday suspended its search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the waters around the isolated Andaman and Nicobar Islands chain while officials in Kuala Lumpur consider where else to search.“We’re taking a temporary pause,” said a senior Indian military official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he had not been authorized to discuss the search publicly. “We are conserving our resources so that we can renew the hunt with great vigor.”Four Indian military ships and six aircraft have spent most of the past four days scanning huge expanses of ocean on both sides of the Andamans, of which Port Blair is the capital. Malaysian officials believe that Flight 370 was deliberately flown off course, and one theory has been that it was headed toward the island chain.But the Andamans are not on either of the two vast corridors of territory where the Malaysian authorities now believe the plane ended up, based on its last transmission to a satellite at 8:11 a.m. on March 8.There are hundreds of deserted tropical islands in this area, and nighttime radar coverage of the skies is not always robust, military officials said. So it is possible that a Boeing 777 could have flown over the area and perhaps crashed on or near an uninhabited island without being noticed, officials said. But India’s military has done such a thorough search of the region since Wednesday that such a scenario, always unlikely, has become almost impossible to believe, officials said.Still, they are eager to demonstrate their willingness to continue searching until all hope fades. Holi, one of India’s most important religious holidays, is on Monday, but military officials said their men will not celebrate it this year.“Holi or no Holi, we will search when the task comes,” the senior military official said. “The families of those missing come first.” Since the ships would need 10 or more hours to return to port, officials have instructed captains to remain in the search area while the Malaysian government reconsiders where to send them.On Friday, officials here had some brief hope of a break in the case when pilots spotted smoke rising from the Sentinel Islands, a set of small islands with nearly impenetrable jungle and an aboriginal population that largely shuns the outside world.But a helicopter flew over the smoldering area and determined that the fire was probably set by local residents for agricultural purposes. The helicopter came back with photos of yellow flames and two nearly naked men on a pristine white beach, brandishing spears.“The islands there are tribal, and the policy is to leave them alone,” said V. Anbarasan, the commandant of the Indian Coast Guard in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. “There’s no wreckage there.”India has been eager to demonstrate its ability to police these waters, as they include busy shipping lanes and China has become increasingly assertive in the nearby South China Sea.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/world/asia/india-flight-370-missing-airplane.html?ref=world
Impact-
The explosion in Harlem had an impact on many and the world was mourning with the families of the lost loved ones.
"New Yorkers mourn victims of explosion"
This article was found on the second page of the Statesman.
Conflict-
This article represents conflict because it is giving their side to the story and has the opposing view present. The story is also about a controversy between two forces.
"Shield reporters' sources: Our view"
The exploits of Edward Snowden — from his asylum-seeking tours of China and Russia to his self-aggrandizing interviews — make it look as if leakers are a bunch of publicity hounds.Quite the contrary: Almost all confidential sources who talk to reporters want to remain just that, confidential. And reporters promise to keep them that way.OPPOSING VIEW: USA doesn't need shield lawThe tradition of keeping confidences has brought many local and national stories to public attention. It allowed The Washington Post to reveal the shameful treatment of wounded soldiers at the Walter Reed Army Hospital. Photos obtained confidentially brought to light the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Leaks have exposed warrantless eavesdropping on Americans.Simply put, many things the government wants to hide come out only because honest insiders, reporting wrongdoing or ineptitude, know that journalists will protect their identities.Now that tradition is under attack on several fronts, which could intimidate potential sources and help to hide all manner of secrets. The Obama administration has prosecuted six former or current officials for leaks — twice as many as all previous administrations combined.Last spring came reports that federal prosecutors had seized two months of records from 20 Associated Press phone lines in another leak investigation — giving the government access to the identities of anyone who talked to certain AP reporters during that time.Now, the Justice Department is hounding New York Times reporter James Risen about the source of his report, in a 2006 book, of an inept CIA attempt to disrupt Iran's nuclear weapons program. Prosecutors want him to testify against a former CIA official accused of leaking the information. Unless the Supreme Court agrees to review a 2-to-1 appellate ruling against Risen, he may end up in jail. Which would be a loss to all journalists and ultimately to the public.One solution is a proposed "shield law" to protect reporters' ability to keep promises to sources. The bill has passed the Senate Judiciary Committee, but it needs to move forward.The principle at stake is at least as important to the public as similar laws that allow lawyers, social workers and other professionals to keep clients' confidences. Almost every state recognizes a similar privilege for reporters.Critics argue that the Senate measure would set loose a flood of leaks of classified secrets. That's doubtful, and in any case, letting the government operate in secret, unaccountable to the public, is a more vivid risk.Nor does the Senate proposal offer blanket protection. In terrorism and national security cases, the burden on reporters who seek to shield sources would be high, and judges would decide when identities could be shielded — and when they must be revealed.For all its actions to intimidate reporters and leakers, the Obama administration has backed this proposal. It is not, as some critics argue, a special interest law for reporters. It's a law that supports one of the pillars of democracy, the public's right to know things that the government would rather keep hidden.USA TODAY's editorial opinions are decided by its Editorial Board, separate from the news staff. Most editorials are coupled with an opposing view — a unique USA TODAY feature.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/03/16/federal-shield-law-james-risen-editorials-debates/6499771/
Human Interest-
This is human interest because she was a well known celebrity who is now dead.
"Fashion designer L'Wren Scott found dead"
Fashion designerL'Wren Scott has been found dead of an apparent suicide, reports ABC News and the New York Daily News.Scott's body was found hanging from a scarf on a doorknob by her assistant at her New York apartment around 10 a.m. today, reports the Daily News. The medical examiner's office will determine the cause of death.Scott had been in a relationship with Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger for more than a decade.Jagger is currently on tour with his band and recently arrived in Australia.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2014/03/17/reports-lwren-scott-found-dead/6525343/
Novelty-
I chose this because it is an unusual topic that pulled me in because it made me curious.
"What Would Plato Tweet?"
I didn’t know what a Klout score was, but I was pretty sure I didn’t have one. And yes, under his raised-eyebrow questioning, it was revealed that since I didn’t use Facebook or Twitter or any of the other social media by which a website called Klout calculates your online influence, my score was probably low to nonexistent.On either side of us, diners were pointing their cellphones at their plates, taking pictures to be posted on their Facebook pages or Instagram accounts. I knew that’s what they were doing. People have taken to putting themselves out there in all kinds of ways, producing — in words, pictures, videos — the shared stories of their lives as they are transpiring. They disseminate their thoughts and deeds, large and small (sometimes very small), in what can seem like a perpetual plea for attention. I wasn’t that out of touch that I didn’t know about the large cultural changes that had overtaken our society while my attention was directed elsewhere.The elsewhere was ancient Greece. For the past few years I’d been obsessed with trying to figure out what lay behind the spectacular achievements that had occurred there. In a mere couple of centuries, Greek speakers went from anomie and illiteracy, lacking even an alphabet, to Aeschylus and Aristotle. They invented not only the discipline of philosophy, but also science, mathematics, the study of history (as opposed to mere chronicles) and that special form of government they called democracy — literally rule of the people (though it goes without saying that “the people” didn’t include women and slaves). They also produced timeless art, architecture, poetry and drama. What lay behind the explosive ambition and achievement? I’d always planned eventually to catch up on the changes that were going on all around me — once I’d gotten the ancient Greeks out of my system.It began when a writer friend asked me what my Klout score was. We were sitting at the sushi bar of a Japanese restaurant, the master chef assembling edible origami of torched fish and foam. My husband and I used to patronize this neighborhood place quite a lot, until a restaurant critic ruined it for us by his unrestrained rave, so that now you have to make reservations months in advance. But my friend had magically procured us two seats just like that, and when I asked him for the secret of his influence he responded by asking me about my Klout score. Only now did it occur to me that I might be able to arrive at some contemporary perspective precisely because I hadn’t gotten the Greeks out of my system. Parallels between their extraordinary time and our extraordinary time were suddenly making themselves felt. For starters, the Klout on which my friend prided himself struck me as markedly similar to what the Greeks had called kleos. The word comes from the old Homeric word for “I hear,” and it meant a kind of auditory renown. Vulgarly speaking, it was fame. But it also could mean the glorious deed that merited the fame, as well as the poem that sang of the deed and so produced the fame. The medium, the message, and the impact: all merged into one shining concept. Perhaps studying the ancient Greeks might give me perspective on today’s social-media obsession.And like so many of us now, they approached this question secularly. Despite their culture’s being saturated with religious rituals, they didn’t turn to their notoriously unreliable immortals for assurance that they mattered. They didn’t really want immortal attention. Something terrible usually happened when they attracted a divine eye. That’s what all those rituals were trying toprevent. Rather, what they wanted was the attention of other mortals. All that we can do to enlarge our lives, they concluded, is to strive to make of them things worth the telling, the stuff of stories that will make an impact on other mortal minds, so that, being replicated there, our lives will take on moreness. The more outstanding you were, the more mental replication of you there would be, and the more replication, the more you mattered.Kleos lay very near the core of the Greek value system. Their value system was at least partly motivated, as perhaps all value systems are partly motivated, by the human need to feel as if our lives matter. A little perspective, which the Greeks certainly had, reveals what brief and feeble things our lives are. As the old Jewish joke has it, the food here is terrible — and such small portions! What can we do to give our lives a moreness that will help withstand the eons of time that will soon cover us over, blotting out the fact that we ever existed at all? Really, why did we bother to show up for our existence in the first place? The Greek speakers were as obsessed with this question as we are. Like us, the Greeks wanted to make their lives matter. And like a Twitter user, they did so by courting the attention of other mortals. Not everybody back then was approaching this question of mattering in mortal terms. Contemporaneous with the Greeks, and right across the Mediterranean from them, was a still obscure tribe that called themselves the Ivrim, the Hebrews, apparently from their word for “over,” since they were over on the other side of the Jordan. And over there they worked out their notion of a covenantal relationship with one of their tribal gods whom they eventually elevated to the position of the one and only God, the Master of the Universe, providing the foundation for both the physical world without and the moral world within. From his position of remotest transcendence, this god nevertheless maintains a rapt interest in human concerns, harboring many intentions directed at us, his creations, who embody nothing less than his reasons for going to the trouble of creating the world ex nihilo. He takes us (almost) as seriously as we take us. Having your life replicated in his all-seeing, all-judging mind, terrifying as the thought might be, would certainly confer a significant quantity of moreness.And then there was a third approach to the problem of mattering, which also emerged in ancient Greece. It, too, was secular, approaching the problem in strictly mortal terms. I’m speaking about Greek philosophy, which was Greek enough to buy into thekleos-like assumption that none of us are born into mattering but rather have to achieve it (“the unexamined life is not worth living”) and that the achievement does indeed demand outsize ambition and effort, requiring you to make of yourself something extraordinary. But Greek philosophy also represented a departure from its own culture. Mattering wasn’t acquired by gatheringattention of any kind, mortal or immortal. Acquiring mattering was something people had to do for themselves, cultivating such virtuous qualities of character as justice and wisdom. They had to put their own souls in order. This demands hard work, since simply to understand the nature of justice and wisdom, which is the first order of business, taxes our limits, not to speak of then acting on our conclusions. And the effort may not win us any kleos.Socrates got himself a cupful of hemlock. He drank it calmly, unperturbed by his low ratings. The divergent Greek and Hebrew approaches went into the mix that is Western culture, often clashing but sometimes also tempering one another. Over the centuries, philosophy, perhaps aided by religion, learned to abandon entirely the flawed Greek presumption that only extraordinary lives matter. This was progress of the philosophical variety, subtler than the dazzling triumphs of science, but nevertheless real. Philosophy has laboriously put forth arguments that have ever widened the sphere of mattering. It was natural for the Greeks to exclude their women and slaves, not to mention non-Greeks, whom they dubbed barbarians. Such exclusions are unthinkable to us now. Being inertial creatures, we required rigorous and oft-repeated arguments that spearheaded social movements that resulted, at long last, in the once quixotic declaration of human rights. We’ve come a long way from the kleos of Greeks, with its unexamined presumption that mattering is inequitably distributed among us, with the multireplicated among us mattering more. Only sometimes it feels as if we haven’t. Our need to feel as if our lives matter is, as always, unabating. But the variations on the theistic approach no longer satisfy on the scale they once did, while cultivating justice and wisdom is as difficult as it has always been. Our new technologies have stepped in just when we most need them. Kleos — or Klout — is only a tweet away. It’s stunning that our culture has, with the dwindling of theism, returned to the answer to the problem of mattering that Socrates and Plato judged woefully inadequate. Perhaps their opposition is even more valid today. How satisfying, in the end, is a culture of social-media obsession? The multireplication so readily available is as short-lived and insubstantial as the many instances of our lives they replicate. If the inadequacies of kleos were what initially precipitated the emergence of philosophy, then maybe it’s time for philosophy to take on Klout. It has the resources. It’s far more developed now than in the day when Socrates wandered the agora trying to prick holes in people’s kleos-inflated attitudes. It can start by demonstrating, just as clearly and forcefully as it knows how, that we all matter. Mattering — none of us more than the other — is our birthright, and we should all be treated accordingly, granted the resources that allow for our flourishing. Appreciating this ethical truth might help calm the frenzy surrounding our own personal mattering, allowing us to direct more energy toward cultivating justice and wisdom. In fact, fully appreciating this ethical truth, in all its implications for both thought and deed, would itself constitute a significant step toward the cultivation of justice and wisdom.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/what-would-plato-tweet/?_php=true&_type=blogs&ref=opinion&_r=0
PORT BLAIR, India — After scouring more than 24,000 nautical square miles, India on Sunday suspended its search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the waters around the isolated Andaman and Nicobar Islands chain while officials in Kuala Lumpur consider where else to search.“We’re taking a temporary pause,” said a senior Indian military official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he had not been authorized to discuss the search publicly. “We are conserving our resources so that we can renew the hunt with great vigor.”Four Indian military ships and six aircraft have spent most of the past four days scanning huge expanses of ocean on both sides of the Andamans, of which Port Blair is the capital. Malaysian officials believe that Flight 370 was deliberately flown off course, and one theory has been that it was headed toward the island chain.But the Andamans are not on either of the two vast corridors of territory where the Malaysian authorities now believe the plane ended up, based on its last transmission to a satellite at 8:11 a.m. on March 8.There are hundreds of deserted tropical islands in this area, and nighttime radar coverage of the skies is not always robust, military officials said. So it is possible that a Boeing 777 could have flown over the area and perhaps crashed on or near an uninhabited island without being noticed, officials said. But India’s military has done such a thorough search of the region since Wednesday that such a scenario, always unlikely, has become almost impossible to believe, officials said.Still, they are eager to demonstrate their willingness to continue searching until all hope fades. Holi, one of India’s most important religious holidays, is on Monday, but military officials said their men will not celebrate it this year.“Holi or no Holi, we will search when the task comes,” the senior military official said. “The families of those missing come first.” Since the ships would need 10 or more hours to return to port, officials have instructed captains to remain in the search area while the Malaysian government reconsiders where to send them.On Friday, officials here had some brief hope of a break in the case when pilots spotted smoke rising from the Sentinel Islands, a set of small islands with nearly impenetrable jungle and an aboriginal population that largely shuns the outside world.But a helicopter flew over the smoldering area and determined that the fire was probably set by local residents for agricultural purposes. The helicopter came back with photos of yellow flames and two nearly naked men on a pristine white beach, brandishing spears.“The islands there are tribal, and the policy is to leave them alone,” said V. Anbarasan, the commandant of the Indian Coast Guard in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. “There’s no wreckage there.”India has been eager to demonstrate its ability to police these waters, as they include busy shipping lanes and China has become increasingly assertive in the nearby South China Sea.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/world/asia/india-flight-370-missing-airplane.html?ref=world
Impact-
The explosion in Harlem had an impact on many and the world was mourning with the families of the lost loved ones.
"New Yorkers mourn victims of explosion"
This article was found on the second page of the Statesman.
Conflict-
This article represents conflict because it is giving their side to the story and has the opposing view present. The story is also about a controversy between two forces.
"Shield reporters' sources: Our view"
The exploits of Edward Snowden — from his asylum-seeking tours of China and Russia to his self-aggrandizing interviews — make it look as if leakers are a bunch of publicity hounds.Quite the contrary: Almost all confidential sources who talk to reporters want to remain just that, confidential. And reporters promise to keep them that way.OPPOSING VIEW: USA doesn't need shield lawThe tradition of keeping confidences has brought many local and national stories to public attention. It allowed The Washington Post to reveal the shameful treatment of wounded soldiers at the Walter Reed Army Hospital. Photos obtained confidentially brought to light the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Leaks have exposed warrantless eavesdropping on Americans.Simply put, many things the government wants to hide come out only because honest insiders, reporting wrongdoing or ineptitude, know that journalists will protect their identities.Now that tradition is under attack on several fronts, which could intimidate potential sources and help to hide all manner of secrets. The Obama administration has prosecuted six former or current officials for leaks — twice as many as all previous administrations combined.Last spring came reports that federal prosecutors had seized two months of records from 20 Associated Press phone lines in another leak investigation — giving the government access to the identities of anyone who talked to certain AP reporters during that time.Now, the Justice Department is hounding New York Times reporter James Risen about the source of his report, in a 2006 book, of an inept CIA attempt to disrupt Iran's nuclear weapons program. Prosecutors want him to testify against a former CIA official accused of leaking the information. Unless the Supreme Court agrees to review a 2-to-1 appellate ruling against Risen, he may end up in jail. Which would be a loss to all journalists and ultimately to the public.One solution is a proposed "shield law" to protect reporters' ability to keep promises to sources. The bill has passed the Senate Judiciary Committee, but it needs to move forward.The principle at stake is at least as important to the public as similar laws that allow lawyers, social workers and other professionals to keep clients' confidences. Almost every state recognizes a similar privilege for reporters.Critics argue that the Senate measure would set loose a flood of leaks of classified secrets. That's doubtful, and in any case, letting the government operate in secret, unaccountable to the public, is a more vivid risk.Nor does the Senate proposal offer blanket protection. In terrorism and national security cases, the burden on reporters who seek to shield sources would be high, and judges would decide when identities could be shielded — and when they must be revealed.For all its actions to intimidate reporters and leakers, the Obama administration has backed this proposal. It is not, as some critics argue, a special interest law for reporters. It's a law that supports one of the pillars of democracy, the public's right to know things that the government would rather keep hidden.USA TODAY's editorial opinions are decided by its Editorial Board, separate from the news staff. Most editorials are coupled with an opposing view — a unique USA TODAY feature.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/03/16/federal-shield-law-james-risen-editorials-debates/6499771/
Human Interest-
This is human interest because she was a well known celebrity who is now dead.
"Fashion designer L'Wren Scott found dead"
Fashion designer
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2014/03/17/reports-lwren-scott-found-dead/6525343/
Novelty-
I chose this because it is an unusual topic that pulled me in because it made me curious.
"What Would Plato Tweet?"
I didn’t know what a Klout score was, but I was pretty sure I didn’t have one. And yes, under his raised-eyebrow questioning, it was revealed that since I didn’t use Facebook or Twitter or any of the other social media by which a website called Klout calculates your online influence, my score was probably low to nonexistent.On either side of us, diners were pointing their cellphones at their plates, taking pictures to be posted on their Facebook pages or Instagram accounts. I knew that’s what they were doing. People have taken to putting themselves out there in all kinds of ways, producing — in words, pictures, videos — the shared stories of their lives as they are transpiring. They disseminate their thoughts and deeds, large and small (sometimes very small), in what can seem like a perpetual plea for attention. I wasn’t that out of touch that I didn’t know about the large cultural changes that had overtaken our society while my attention was directed elsewhere.The elsewhere was ancient Greece. For the past few years I’d been obsessed with trying to figure out what lay behind the spectacular achievements that had occurred there. In a mere couple of centuries, Greek speakers went from anomie and illiteracy, lacking even an alphabet, to Aeschylus and Aristotle. They invented not only the discipline of philosophy, but also science, mathematics, the study of history (as opposed to mere chronicles) and that special form of government they called democracy — literally rule of the people (though it goes without saying that “the people” didn’t include women and slaves). They also produced timeless art, architecture, poetry and drama. What lay behind the explosive ambition and achievement? I’d always planned eventually to catch up on the changes that were going on all around me — once I’d gotten the ancient Greeks out of my system.It began when a writer friend asked me what my Klout score was. We were sitting at the sushi bar of a Japanese restaurant, the master chef assembling edible origami of torched fish and foam. My husband and I used to patronize this neighborhood place quite a lot, until a restaurant critic ruined it for us by his unrestrained rave, so that now you have to make reservations months in advance. But my friend had magically procured us two seats just like that, and when I asked him for the secret of his influence he responded by asking me about my Klout score. Only now did it occur to me that I might be able to arrive at some contemporary perspective precisely because I hadn’t gotten the Greeks out of my system. Parallels between their extraordinary time and our extraordinary time were suddenly making themselves felt. For starters, the Klout on which my friend prided himself struck me as markedly similar to what the Greeks had called kleos. The word comes from the old Homeric word for “I hear,” and it meant a kind of auditory renown. Vulgarly speaking, it was fame. But it also could mean the glorious deed that merited the fame, as well as the poem that sang of the deed and so produced the fame. The medium, the message, and the impact: all merged into one shining concept. Perhaps studying the ancient Greeks might give me perspective on today’s social-media obsession.And like so many of us now, they approached this question secularly. Despite their culture’s being saturated with religious rituals, they didn’t turn to their notoriously unreliable immortals for assurance that they mattered. They didn’t really want immortal attention. Something terrible usually happened when they attracted a divine eye. That’s what all those rituals were trying toprevent. Rather, what they wanted was the attention of other mortals. All that we can do to enlarge our lives, they concluded, is to strive to make of them things worth the telling, the stuff of stories that will make an impact on other mortal minds, so that, being replicated there, our lives will take on moreness. The more outstanding you were, the more mental replication of you there would be, and the more replication, the more you mattered.Kleos lay very near the core of the Greek value system. Their value system was at least partly motivated, as perhaps all value systems are partly motivated, by the human need to feel as if our lives matter. A little perspective, which the Greeks certainly had, reveals what brief and feeble things our lives are. As the old Jewish joke has it, the food here is terrible — and such small portions! What can we do to give our lives a moreness that will help withstand the eons of time that will soon cover us over, blotting out the fact that we ever existed at all? Really, why did we bother to show up for our existence in the first place? The Greek speakers were as obsessed with this question as we are. Like us, the Greeks wanted to make their lives matter. And like a Twitter user, they did so by courting the attention of other mortals. Not everybody back then was approaching this question of mattering in mortal terms. Contemporaneous with the Greeks, and right across the Mediterranean from them, was a still obscure tribe that called themselves the Ivrim, the Hebrews, apparently from their word for “over,” since they were over on the other side of the Jordan. And over there they worked out their notion of a covenantal relationship with one of their tribal gods whom they eventually elevated to the position of the one and only God, the Master of the Universe, providing the foundation for both the physical world without and the moral world within. From his position of remotest transcendence, this god nevertheless maintains a rapt interest in human concerns, harboring many intentions directed at us, his creations, who embody nothing less than his reasons for going to the trouble of creating the world ex nihilo. He takes us (almost) as seriously as we take us. Having your life replicated in his all-seeing, all-judging mind, terrifying as the thought might be, would certainly confer a significant quantity of moreness.And then there was a third approach to the problem of mattering, which also emerged in ancient Greece. It, too, was secular, approaching the problem in strictly mortal terms. I’m speaking about Greek philosophy, which was Greek enough to buy into thekleos-like assumption that none of us are born into mattering but rather have to achieve it (“the unexamined life is not worth living”) and that the achievement does indeed demand outsize ambition and effort, requiring you to make of yourself something extraordinary. But Greek philosophy also represented a departure from its own culture. Mattering wasn’t acquired by gatheringattention of any kind, mortal or immortal. Acquiring mattering was something people had to do for themselves, cultivating such virtuous qualities of character as justice and wisdom. They had to put their own souls in order. This demands hard work, since simply to understand the nature of justice and wisdom, which is the first order of business, taxes our limits, not to speak of then acting on our conclusions. And the effort may not win us any kleos.Socrates got himself a cupful of hemlock. He drank it calmly, unperturbed by his low ratings. The divergent Greek and Hebrew approaches went into the mix that is Western culture, often clashing but sometimes also tempering one another. Over the centuries, philosophy, perhaps aided by religion, learned to abandon entirely the flawed Greek presumption that only extraordinary lives matter. This was progress of the philosophical variety, subtler than the dazzling triumphs of science, but nevertheless real. Philosophy has laboriously put forth arguments that have ever widened the sphere of mattering. It was natural for the Greeks to exclude their women and slaves, not to mention non-Greeks, whom they dubbed barbarians. Such exclusions are unthinkable to us now. Being inertial creatures, we required rigorous and oft-repeated arguments that spearheaded social movements that resulted, at long last, in the once quixotic declaration of human rights. We’ve come a long way from the kleos of Greeks, with its unexamined presumption that mattering is inequitably distributed among us, with the multireplicated among us mattering more. Only sometimes it feels as if we haven’t. Our need to feel as if our lives matter is, as always, unabating. But the variations on the theistic approach no longer satisfy on the scale they once did, while cultivating justice and wisdom is as difficult as it has always been. Our new technologies have stepped in just when we most need them. Kleos — or Klout — is only a tweet away. It’s stunning that our culture has, with the dwindling of theism, returned to the answer to the problem of mattering that Socrates and Plato judged woefully inadequate. Perhaps their opposition is even more valid today. How satisfying, in the end, is a culture of social-media obsession? The multireplication so readily available is as short-lived and insubstantial as the many instances of our lives they replicate. If the inadequacies of kleos were what initially precipitated the emergence of philosophy, then maybe it’s time for philosophy to take on Klout. It has the resources. It’s far more developed now than in the day when Socrates wandered the agora trying to prick holes in people’s kleos-inflated attitudes. It can start by demonstrating, just as clearly and forcefully as it knows how, that we all matter. Mattering — none of us more than the other — is our birthright, and we should all be treated accordingly, granted the resources that allow for our flourishing. Appreciating this ethical truth might help calm the frenzy surrounding our own personal mattering, allowing us to direct more energy toward cultivating justice and wisdom. In fact, fully appreciating this ethical truth, in all its implications for both thought and deed, would itself constitute a significant step toward the cultivation of justice and wisdom.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/what-would-plato-tweet/?_php=true&_type=blogs&ref=opinion&_r=0
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Other High School Newspapers
1. My favorite cover was the The Roar because it was very neat and professional looking.
2. The Mustang immediately grabbed my interest because the cover was very interesting looking and I was curious to see how interesting the inside would be.
3. I really enjoyed the Best of 2013 section. I was interested in it because I was curious to see what everyone thought of all the different subjects listed.
4. There are no stories on the cover page. There were 7 stories on the first pages.
5. All the newspapers each have their own style. Also, they all have a general layout.
6. Some have different types of pictures, some have just words and some have just pictures.
7. They all generally had a large headline on the cover and smaller stories with it. Some of the high school newspapers are more like magazines.
Broadsheet
-The Lone Star Dispatch
-The View
-The Long-View
Tabloid
-The Highlander
-The Lance
-The Lion's Roar
NewsMagazine
-The Mustang
-Tom Tom
-The Flash
Headlines- the heading or caption of a newspaper article
Subheadlines- a smaller, secondary headline that usually elaborates on the main headline above it.
Lines- the betting line which quite often appears in the daily newspapers
Boxes-a weekly or daily publication consisting of folded sheets and containing articles on the news, features, reviews, and advertisements
Photos- the use of pictures to represent a story
Teaser- a short item, a headline, or photo with caption referring to or promoting a news article or feature on inside pages.
Flag- the nameplate of a newspaper.
Folios- the number of each page together with the date and the name of the newspaper.
Captions- words printed above or below a picture in a book or newspaper or on a television screen to explain what the picture is showing
Stories- a news report of any length, usually presented in a straightforward style and without editorial comment.
Bylines- the name of the person who wrote a newspaper story.
Jumps- what an article does when it continues, unfinished, from one page to another.
Story dividers- something which forms a barrier between two areas or sets of things.
Screens- pattern of tiny dots used to create gray areas; to screen a photo is to turn it into a halftone.
2. The Mustang immediately grabbed my interest because the cover was very interesting looking and I was curious to see how interesting the inside would be.
3. I really enjoyed the Best of 2013 section. I was interested in it because I was curious to see what everyone thought of all the different subjects listed.
4. There are no stories on the cover page. There were 7 stories on the first pages.
5. All the newspapers each have their own style. Also, they all have a general layout.
6. Some have different types of pictures, some have just words and some have just pictures.
7. They all generally had a large headline on the cover and smaller stories with it. Some of the high school newspapers are more like magazines.
Broadsheet
-The Lone Star Dispatch
-The View
-The Long-View
Tabloid
-The Highlander
-The Lance
-The Lion's Roar
NewsMagazine
-The Mustang
-Tom Tom
-The Flash
Headlines- the heading or caption of a newspaper article
Subheadlines- a smaller, secondary headline that usually elaborates on the main headline above it.
Lines- the betting line which quite often appears in the daily newspapers
Boxes-a weekly or daily publication consisting of folded sheets and containing articles on the news, features, reviews, and advertisements
Photos- the use of pictures to represent a story
Teaser- a short item, a headline, or photo with caption referring to or promoting a news article or feature on inside pages.
Flag- the nameplate of a newspaper.
Folios- the number of each page together with the date and the name of the newspaper.
Captions- words printed above or below a picture in a book or newspaper or on a television screen to explain what the picture is showing
Stories- a news report of any length, usually presented in a straightforward style and without editorial comment.
Bylines- the name of the person who wrote a newspaper story.
Jumps- what an article does when it continues, unfinished, from one page to another.
Story dividers- something which forms a barrier between two areas or sets of things.
Screens- pattern of tiny dots used to create gray areas; to screen a photo is to turn it into a halftone.
Masthead/staff box- a two-meaning term: (1) a listing of executives, staff, operating and circulation data, or (2) the nameplate title at the top of Page One.
Infographics- newsroom slang for "informational graphic"; any map, chart or diagram used to analyze an event, object or place.
Monday, February 24, 2014
Front Pages of the World
1. My favorite newspaper cover was from Amarillo. I thought they had a very interesting main topic and it definitely drew in my eyes.
2. My favorite head line was "Beef Cloning Enters Next Phase". Its a very interesting topic and it seems very rare which made me want to know more about it.
3. There were 3 stories on the main page.
4. I noticed all the papers had their main story in the middle and it was the largest. The less interesting stories were smaller and placed around the main. Also, most had advertisements.
5. Some of the things that varied were things like some main stories had different amounts of pictures. Some had none at all.
2. My favorite head line was "Beef Cloning Enters Next Phase". Its a very interesting topic and it seems very rare which made me want to know more about it.
3. There were 3 stories on the main page.
4. I noticed all the papers had their main story in the middle and it was the largest. The less interesting stories were smaller and placed around the main. Also, most had advertisements.
5. Some of the things that varied were things like some main stories had different amounts of pictures. Some had none at all.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
When You Get Caught - Warm Up
1. If it was a big of deal as the company made it seem and it was worth being fired over, then no, one should not have a second chance to redeem themselves. They could've been lying about everything else the entire time and no one would have known.
2. The rest of his images should be taken into consideration forever since he is now known for untrue material. Caution should be taken in fear that he might pull the same thing again.
3. The AP should have these rules so readers can be let in on the true story. Their minds shouldn't have a twisted perspective of the real idea.
4. I think there may have been others or other cameras around that captured the same image that clearly had something different about it. Also, maybe the photographer didn't do the best job at photoshopping and you could see a mistake or flaw, clearly enough.
2. The rest of his images should be taken into consideration forever since he is now known for untrue material. Caution should be taken in fear that he might pull the same thing again.
3. The AP should have these rules so readers can be let in on the true story. Their minds shouldn't have a twisted perspective of the real idea.
4. I think there may have been others or other cameras around that captured the same image that clearly had something different about it. Also, maybe the photographer didn't do the best job at photoshopping and you could see a mistake or flaw, clearly enough.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Yearbook Introduction
25 things every yearbook should have
1. title
2. students pictures
3. ads
4. index
5. clubs
6. table of contents
7. attractive cover
8. theme
9. different sections
10. student count
11. school address/ location
12. senior pages
13. student quotes
14. community page
15. school events
16. dedications
17. sports teams
18. academics
19. faculty page
20. editors dedication spread
21. colorful
22. interesting spreads
23. memorial page
24. year/ volume
25. clever captions
1. It's Not Just Black and White...
2. Jefferson High School
3. They book is mainly about blue and white, the school colors. There are also a lot of twin and crush pages throughout the book.
4. There are around 6 total larger sections.
5. My favorite spread was "A Ray Of Sunshine".
6. There is an index.
7. There are group photos.
8. There is no table of contents.
9. There was not a student count listed.
10. My book is from Minnesota.
Magazine Cover Peer Review
FallCity Magazine - Shayla Perez
- I liked how there was a lot of color, yet it didn't clash. I also really liked the photo she took.
- I think she could make some of the text a little more clear.
- How the photo was clear and the text was laid out well around the subject is what attracted me to this cover.
- There is a bar code. I think it did make it feel more like a really magazine.
- Yes you can tell it was a portrait.
N Photo - Audrey Dunne
- I liked how your eyes were immediately drawn to the bold picture. I also liked how well the subjects stood out yet didn't clash.
- I think one thing that could be changed is not having the title going across her forehead.
- The bold picture and bright text attracted my eyes to this cover.
- There is a bar code. I think it does give it a more magazine feel.
- I can't really tell it was a self-portrait.
- I liked how there was a lot of color, yet it didn't clash. I also really liked the photo she took.
- I think she could make some of the text a little more clear.
- How the photo was clear and the text was laid out well around the subject is what attracted me to this cover.
- There is a bar code. I think it did make it feel more like a really magazine.
- Yes you can tell it was a portrait.
N Photo - Audrey Dunne
- I liked how your eyes were immediately drawn to the bold picture. I also liked how well the subjects stood out yet didn't clash.
- I think one thing that could be changed is not having the title going across her forehead.
- The bold picture and bright text attracted my eyes to this cover.
- There is a bar code. I think it does give it a more magazine feel.
- I can't really tell it was a self-portrait.
Monday, January 13, 2014
2013
Favorite Photographs
This was one of my favorites because its just something that you look at and it immediately makes you smile.
I think this is an awesome photo. I think it would be so cool to go to such an amazing place like this. IT is definitely on my bucket list.
This is such a cool photograph. The fact that they captured such a thing amazes me. his would be an awesome sight to see in person.
Favorite Song
This was one of my many favorite songs of 2013. It's a country song that describes the love one man shares for a woman. It has a upbeat tune and is one of those feel good songs that is easy to listen to. David Nail also happens to be one of my favorites and I've loved everything he's done so far.
Favorite Movie
I think this was one of my favorite movies released this year. It had action and some comedy. I never got bored and my focus was held the entire time. It was a well rounded, decent movie for everyone. It held all components and you were always kept on your toes watching it seemed like. Some movies you can easily figure out what will happen, whereas this one specifically, you never knew what turn it would take.
Most Important Story
I thought the most important news story this year was the birth of the royal baby. It was an extremely large event everyone was talking about and had everyone from all parts of the world excited. It was a general topic that everyone found in common and was also a happy, feel good topic that was away from all the recent deaths and tragedies the world had been focusing on.
Most Important Person
Jennifer Lawrence is a role model for many people. She is an amazing actress and has gone very far in her life so far. She has won many awards and the praise of many during 2013. She seems like an all around sweet and genuine person that people would like to be around. As a plus, she is hilarious.
Biggest Entertainment Story
Paula Deen's lawsuit was one of the biggest news buzzes of 2013. It caused an uproar almost everywhere. People were baffled by the claims made. Some didn't know which side to take. The story was huge and was on almost every news and entertainment show around the country and even in other countries where Deen's show was being played. Thankfully, the mayhem has been settling down. This was the biggest story because of the many who responded to it.
My Holiday
1. Over the break, I really just stayed home. The most memorable thing out of the little things that happened was the weekend I spent with many of my best friends at our church retreat in Leakey, Texas along the Frio. I made many more new friends and cannot wait till next year when I get to go back. We had a lot of fun and I was sad to leave a lot of my friends from hours away.
2. Some of my resolutions are to always be on top of my school work. This semester I will be missing a few more days due to competitions and I am trying to study hard so I don't get left behind.
3. In 2014, I am looking forward to the adventures I may take all over the country. I also look forward to spending time with my best friends and letting relationships grow.
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