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Spring2013 Slides For Photo Week 1

Audio Assignment #1 (50 points): Interview and edit an audio piece.

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Multimedia Storytelling JOUR 203

Audio Wrap-Up/Photo Week 1: Audio Ethics Visual Thinking, Shot Variety, Photo Ethics, Captions

Discussion
What was your hook?

Critique
Peer-grading

Pair Up and E-mail Feedback


List to a classmates piece. E-mail your critique of it to me at [email protected] (make sure to include the name of person you critiqued) Include: Rate the technical quality on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 is best) Rate the story quality on a scale of 1 to 10 Write one sentence about what you liked about the piece. Write one sentence about what you thought was weakest in the piece.

Comments on Last Homework

Todays Goals
Discuss the ethical challenges of audio and photojournalism

Todays Goals
Take pictures that capture an event in a format suitable for a newspaper or magazine.

Todays Goals
Take pictures that capture an event in a format suitable for a newspaper or magazine.
* Basic photo conceptualizing and framing for photojournalism * AP caption style

Audio Ethics
During the Interview:
Its not ok to tell someone what to say.

Audio Ethics
During the Interview:
Its not ok to tell someone what to say. Get permission from the interviewee.

Audio Ethics
At the Editing Suite:
Rule #1: Never change the meaning of what the

interviewee said.

Audio Ethics
Rule #1: Never change the meaning of what the

interviewee said.

Um, cut out ums and ers though

Audio Ethics
Rule #1: Never change the meaning of what the

interviewee said.

Um, cut out ums and ers though And its ok to cut out extra words

Audio Ethics
Rule #1: Never change the meaning of what the

interviewee said.

Um, cut out ums and ers though And its ok to cut out extra words Re-ordering is usually ok

Audio Ethics
It's okay, even recommended, that you will cut

out extraneous words.

Before editing: "I think that, you know, that, the university should lower tuition fees." After editing: "The university should lower tuition fees."

Audio Ethics
Sound effects? Mostly no.

Special effects, including sound effects, should be used with particular care in the presentation of journalistic material. On the rare occasions when they are used, rigorous judgment must be applied to ensure that they do not distort reality or have the effect of producing editorial comment.
-- The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's

Guide to Journalistic Standards and Practices

Audio Ethics
Using fake sound in radio may be harder to

detect, but it is the equivalent of manipulating photos.

Photojournalism

Photojournalism
"The camera is an instrument that

teaches people how to see without a camera." Dorothea Lange

What Photo Editors Look For


Joe Elbert (Washington Post Photo editor)s 4

major categories:

What Photo Editors Look For


Joe Elbert (Washington Post Photo editor)s 4

major categories:

#1 Informational: Who, What, Why, When, Where, How

This undated photo released by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities

in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday Feb. 28, 2010, shows the newly unearthed 3,400year old red granite head, part of a huge statue of the ancient pharaoh Amenhotep III, at the pharaoh's mortuary temple in the city of Luxor. Egypt's Culture Ministry says a team of Egyptian and European archaeologists has unearthed a large head made of red granite of an ancient pharaoh who ruled Egypt some 3,400 years ago.(AP Photo/ Supreme Council of An9qui9es)

What Photo Editors Look For


Joe Elbert (Washington Post Photo editor)s 4

major categories:

#2 Graphic: Attempt to make the mundane interesting through composition

What Photo Editors Look For


Joe Elbert (Washington Post Photo editor)s 4

major categories:

#3 Emotional: Cause viewer to feel something about the subject

What Photo Editors Look For


Joe Elbert (Washington Post Photo editor)s 4

major categories:

#4 Intimate: Make viewer feel close to the situation or subject

Shot Variety

Overall Shot

Medium Shot

Close-Up Shot

High/Low-Angle Shot

Composition

Rule of Thirds

More Examples

More Examples

Lighting

Lighting
Main light source should generally be behind

you.

Lighting
Main light source should generally be behind

you.

Dont photograph someone in front of a window

(same rule really)

Photo Ethics
3 Basic Approaches: #1 Utilitarian: The greatest good for the greatest

number of people.

Photo Ethics
3 Basic Approaches:

#2 Absolutist: Strict/fundamental about beliefs. i.e. People have the right to privacy.

Photo Ethics
3 Basic Approaches:

#3 The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Dont Stage Anything!

Dont Stage Anything!

Dont Stage Anything!

Dont Stage Anything!


Pyramids were

squeezed together digitally to fit the cover's vertical format

Photo Ethics (Digital)

Clouds were cloned in Photoshop to make

it look more severe than it was.

Captions
Start with the most newsworthy, interesting, or

unusual facts.

Captions
AP Caption Style:

#1 First sentence describes what the photo shows, in the present tense, and states where and when the photo was made (i.e. Friday, March 5, 2010)

Captions
AP Caption Style:

#2 The second sentence gives background on the news event or describes why the photo is significant.

Captions
AP Caption Style:

#3 Stick to two sentences if at all possible, while including relevant information. Try to anticipate what a newspaper editor or reader will need.

Captions
AP Caption Style:

#4 End with photo credit information.Photographer and affiliation in parentheses.

Example: (The Terrapin Truth/Jeff Young)

Captions
AP Caption Style:

#5 Get names of central figures in photographs!

Rays' Evan Longoria runs to home plate as his

teammates crowd around after his 12th inning home run to defeat the Yankees during their American League MLB baseball game in St. Petersburg, Florida. (REUTERS/ Steve Nesius)

Practice
Inclass assignment: "U of M in three photos." Your editor wants three images for a story titled "My U of M": one overall, one medium, and one closeup (detail) shot that relates your view of campus. Each shot should have a caption. Post to blog before end of class.

Homework
Photo Assignment #1 (50 points): Capturing an event in

pictures.

Submit three photos of a newsworthy event. Must include one overall, one medium-shot, and one detail shot. Each image must include a caption formatted in AP caption style. Post the three images to the blog all as one blog post, with the title: Your Name: Event Photos Approach. Visual Variety, pp. 14-24. (electronic reserve)

Required Reading: Photojournalism: The Professionals'

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