Quiz 8 Flashcards
Celeste Sloman photography tips
- be decisive but make room for collaboration
- prioritize needs and wants
- test the light
- clear vision for the shoot
Ed Young
Helped readers understand what we are facing
- wrote about animals and COVID
- 1.2 million died from/in COVID
- “how did it come to this”
newswriting
- agency
- clarity
- thoroughness
- fairness
- concision
- compelling
hard news vs feature
form follows fiction
hard news = inverted pyramid (straightforward facts)
feature = lead up and aftermath
- how we tell it or the form is generally based on the function of the story
criteria for how to approach a news story
- how much time do you have?
- is this still unfolding as an event?
- is this exclusove information
- are you coming at the story after its been out there?
Take a more creative approach
look at how the loser came to terms with the loss - is the news grave of vital, or is it more unusual/oddity?
david abel wrote about…
stephen hawking (lecture about the cosmos)
“in the whale” –> a man who got swallowed by a whale (michael packard a lobster diver on Cape Code)
big lobster
something about a cat
feature writing
brites and profiles
brites
short stories with little news
- aim to give a sense of place of time
- slice of life
profiles
writing about a person
- abel’s favorite (wrote about someone singing about people + living in the woods)
- get to know ppls in a deeper way
narrative
- highest forms
- creative non-fiction
- tom wold –> “new journalism”
- more common in mags (New Yorker) and books
- composed in scenes (dialogue)
- “the good solider”, “common ground”, “paradise falls”
- prof. Mitch Suckoff + dick lehr
prof mitch suckoff
- narratives
- 9 books of narrative fiction
- boston globe
- best sellers including “113 hours” - became a hollywood film
prof dick lehr
- boston globe
- NYT best seller
- movie made with Johnny depp
- narrative style
trend stories
abels least fav to write
at their best when written with a sense of humor
deeper reporting
- lede as anecdote
- relevant quotes
3 nutgraf - supporting data
- avoid redundancies
- end where we began
- kicker
types of stories IDK
- Accountability stories –> if a politician had fulfilled a campaign promise
- enterprise stories
- data stories –> use public records and sift through for info
- investigative stories
dana bash
- CNN
- Inside Politics = round table show
- co-moderated the presidential debate (trump v biden)
- called out JD Vance about “the cats and the dogs”
show prep by Bash
- readhing the night before
- collaborating with executive producer
- story selection
- 7:30 meeting
Bash on the presidential debate preparation
- being present
- discussion of themes (what angles)
- understand candidate past statements
- rewriting questions
- mock debate
- mic cut off situation
julia cumes
award winning photojournalist based on Cape Cod
- freelancer
- published by the NYT, AP, and Boston Globe
- South African (during apartheid)
- captures climate change, wildlife conservation, gender equality, identity, natural disasters
- hawaian cowboys and indian religious prositiution
- work featured by gov Moira Heely
- named artist of the year 2024 by Cape Cod
jacob riis
photographer during the depression era
- father of journalism
- informed about the realities of the United States in 20th century
- depicted poverty –> photography as social education
lewis hines
photographer who documented children who worked in mills
- boston Mass, young kids and labor conditions
robert capa
photojournalism who began documenting way (hungarian)
- the reg. citizen got to see behind frontlines
- photo –> man alone and shot
- d-day
- ww2 + spanish civil war
henri cartier bresson
photojournalist who coined the “decisive movement”
- photo encapsulates the truth of the situation and reality
cumes’ mater project
went to south africa to document the lives of children born the year after apartheids end
- little change, some integration
- matthew –> went to her same school but what was once an all white school has an 80% black pop
life as a freelancer
balancing money and meanigful stories
storytelling
include
1. an image that has emotional resonance
2. scene setter
3. action/interaction photos
4. portraits
5. closing photograph
6. detail shots (w captions)
photo technniques
- depth of field –> decide where the eye goes, draw into subjects while understanding surroundings
- rule of thirds –> tictactoe grid that allows for more storytelling space
- shutterspeed –> motion moments, slow shutterspeed means the lens stays open longer
- dont just stand (MOVE)
- golden hour
- frames (within frames)
cume’s other projects
- transgender
- breast cancer
- paddle boarders
- immigrants (current)
cumes’ organization
photo artfolio –> create a community for young photographers and showcase work
