So this week's blog assignment was to go to this link and watch/read at least one story that has won an online journalism award for 2011.
http://journalists.org/2011/09/25/2011-‐online-‐ journalism-‐award-‐winners-‐announced/
I chose to watch a piece that won for online video journalism for a large site. The story was titled, Caught in the Crossfire: Victims of Gang Violence that was put together for the Los Angeles Times.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-gangviolence-html,0,6290501.htmlstory
This piece was really well done! It made me cry! The piece chronicles the stories of 6 gunshot victims (several of which survived), that were shot during gang shootings.
One of the victims that survived was a little 5 year-old boy named Josue Hercules that was shot in the back of the head while playing in his own backyard. His older sister carried him inside to their mother and the paramedics never came. The mother had to drive her young son to the hospital.
The story was an amazing example of awesome multimedia journalism. The interviews of the victims and their families were conducted in a quiet place, with no background noises and lighting that shown down on the subjects. And for the most part, the interviews were shot where the subjects were in the left or right portions of the rule of thirds for shooting. There were a few times that the subjects looked into the camera, but honestly I don't think in this case it was bad. You could literally look into these people's eyes and see the pain! It was real and deep and you could see that when they looked up into the camera! It pulled you into their stories and it made you start to feel their pain!
I loved how they showed mostly pictures with voice overs, as opposed to a lot of just interview shots. They jumped around and didn't just tell one story at a time, which I think kept it interesting.
They also had the final product, but also had links to each of the interviews so you could hear the individual stories one at a time and get the entire story.
I think that this story is a great example of how multimedia journalism can be used to tell stories from all aspects. you can get clear pictures of the who, what ,where, when, how and in some cases the why. In this case, we don't get the why answered. I do wish that I could have a little more info on the stories. Did they catch the gang-bangers that took part in these shootings? Did they hit their intended targets? If not, do they feel remorse about hitting a young child instead?
For a journalist to take on a project like this; for putting their lives on the line to go behind enemy lines right here on U.S. soil to get these stories is amazing to me!
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
interview video...sorry its late!
Friday, May 25, 2012
Not letting me upload video...try again after work
Okay...so yesterday I did an interview with my little sister for my final project about her pole vaulting. I am going to post it on here for the assignment, but it is not edited in any way...so you hear me asking questions and us laughing and a janitor walks into the shot and talks to us...it is also about 13 minutes long...so don't feel like you have to watch all of it! lol!
Okay...so this is not letting me upload it for some reason...I have to go to work and I will try again later this afternoon to upload the file...if it wont let me uplaod the actual video...I will see if it will let me upload the audio file instead. (I had the video camera and voice recorder going douring the interview!)
Okay...so this is not letting me upload it for some reason...I have to go to work and I will try again later this afternoon to upload the file...if it wont let me uplaod the actual video...I will see if it will let me upload the audio file instead. (I had the video camera and voice recorder going douring the interview!)
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
21 more credits! :-)
I was looking on the degree audit on the college website yesterday and realized that I only have 21 more credits til I can gradutate! I just need 5 more classes! That is only fall and winter quarter next year!! But I also need to get my foreign language classes on top of that 21 credits. So I will probably take them winter and spring quarter next year!
There is an end in sight! I have been in school for 2 years and to be completely honest...have been contemplating just giving up lately. I go to school full time; 3 classes (or more) every quarter and they are all really intense classes with alot of homework. And I work 2 jobs on top of that. I am hardly ever home and hardly ever have time to do anything fun anymore.
Plus the college paper is like a 3rd job because pretty much all of the work is done outside of class time. And speaking of the paper...this is a really tough decision, but I have decided that I will probably take the fall quarter off from that class! I'm sure my editors will not be happy, but I will be back for at at least one more quarter, just not fall. I need to focus on the few other classes I need for my degree! I have also decided that I will offer to still write an occasional story for the paper if they are interested and just be a contributing writer.
Right now I am looking for another summer job because my other 2 jobs will not have a ton of extra hours for me and I need to get my car completely fixed and in good working order. That and I want to have savings! I have always sucked at saving money and when I have extra money come my way it always ends up going to bills or other things like taking my kitty in for her shots or something.
There is an end in sight! I have been in school for 2 years and to be completely honest...have been contemplating just giving up lately. I go to school full time; 3 classes (or more) every quarter and they are all really intense classes with alot of homework. And I work 2 jobs on top of that. I am hardly ever home and hardly ever have time to do anything fun anymore.
Plus the college paper is like a 3rd job because pretty much all of the work is done outside of class time. And speaking of the paper...this is a really tough decision, but I have decided that I will probably take the fall quarter off from that class! I'm sure my editors will not be happy, but I will be back for at at least one more quarter, just not fall. I need to focus on the few other classes I need for my degree! I have also decided that I will offer to still write an occasional story for the paper if they are interested and just be a contributing writer.
Right now I am looking for another summer job because my other 2 jobs will not have a ton of extra hours for me and I need to get my car completely fixed and in good working order. That and I want to have savings! I have always sucked at saving money and when I have extra money come my way it always ends up going to bills or other things like taking my kitty in for her shots or something.
Brain on summer mode
This quarter is going by so slow right now! With all of the great weather my brain has been on summer mode already. And between that and being sick and not feeling up to doing anything (including homework), I am behind in all 3 of my classes right now!
I have done 1 chapter of my 5 chapters in math and really need to get going on that! I sould be done with at least 3 chapters of it already! It's my last math class too! Which is so exciting...you have no idea! I hate math!
I have been out for both of my journalism classes so far this week because of being sick and no one is getting back to me! I txted my editor to let her know on monday that I wasn't going to be there and then turned in my 2 stories from last week late on monday. And I have emailed and stuff too, and no response! :-( I have no idea what we are doing in class today! And its production night, not looking forward to a late night, I'm hoping that we just get the class period to work on it too, which would hopefully mean that we are out of there earlier than we would normally be done!
And I am going to interview my little sister for my blog assignment for this week tomorrow after class and an interview for my new story for the paper.
I still need to work on the assignment that is due tomorrow...I think that my storyboard will probably end up being stick figures! lol! I suck at drawing! I am really excited for this final project though. It will be fun to get to hang out with my baby sister more! :-)
I have done 1 chapter of my 5 chapters in math and really need to get going on that! I sould be done with at least 3 chapters of it already! It's my last math class too! Which is so exciting...you have no idea! I hate math!
I have been out for both of my journalism classes so far this week because of being sick and no one is getting back to me! I txted my editor to let her know on monday that I wasn't going to be there and then turned in my 2 stories from last week late on monday. And I have emailed and stuff too, and no response! :-( I have no idea what we are doing in class today! And its production night, not looking forward to a late night, I'm hoping that we just get the class period to work on it too, which would hopefully mean that we are out of there earlier than we would normally be done!
And I am going to interview my little sister for my blog assignment for this week tomorrow after class and an interview for my new story for the paper.
I still need to work on the assignment that is due tomorrow...I think that my storyboard will probably end up being stick figures! lol! I suck at drawing! I am really excited for this final project though. It will be fun to get to hang out with my baby sister more! :-)
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Final project ideas
Our assignment for this week in my multimedia journalism class is to write out two fully developed plans for our final project. I will admit that I haven't really thought about it that much.
I have used The Clipper production night for my slide-show assignment...and it may be my back up plan for my video project for this week as well. I had a few other ideas for the video, but unfortunately they will probably fall through for lack of time and availability of a camera.
One idea I had was to do a how to documentary of my boyfriend working on my car. But he is being difficult and doesn't want to do it. He is of the mind that cameras steal a persons soul (he is ridiculous like that). That and all of his good tools are at work (he is a mechanic at a dealership).
My other idea that I really wanted to do was to shoot my 16-year-old sister at track practice. She is the only girl pole vaulter for Everett High School and she is pretty good at it. The point would be that she is the only girl and why she chose pole vault and how she interacts with the guys and such. She made it to WESCO this year! I sadly will have to work during that...sucky! But with time constraints I will probably not be able to get to her practice today. (Tomorrow I have class and a test for my online class and production night with The Clipper and then it is due on Thursday).
I had another idea this morning too. My older sister, my next younger sister and I went to New York a few years ago and I was thinking maybe interviewing one or both of them and putting in some pictures from the trip between the interviews. It would essentially be a travel documentary thing. But again...not sure if I will actually get the change to see my sisters before Thursday.
These could all be potentially ideas for my final project. I would definitely have time to develop them between now and then. Although track is almost done with and so I would need a different angle for that idea.
So far these are my ideas for my final project...but like I said before...haven't really been thinking about it that much!
I have used The Clipper production night for my slide-show assignment...and it may be my back up plan for my video project for this week as well. I had a few other ideas for the video, but unfortunately they will probably fall through for lack of time and availability of a camera.
One idea I had was to do a how to documentary of my boyfriend working on my car. But he is being difficult and doesn't want to do it. He is of the mind that cameras steal a persons soul (he is ridiculous like that). That and all of his good tools are at work (he is a mechanic at a dealership).
My other idea that I really wanted to do was to shoot my 16-year-old sister at track practice. She is the only girl pole vaulter for Everett High School and she is pretty good at it. The point would be that she is the only girl and why she chose pole vault and how she interacts with the guys and such. She made it to WESCO this year! I sadly will have to work during that...sucky! But with time constraints I will probably not be able to get to her practice today. (Tomorrow I have class and a test for my online class and production night with The Clipper and then it is due on Thursday).
I had another idea this morning too. My older sister, my next younger sister and I went to New York a few years ago and I was thinking maybe interviewing one or both of them and putting in some pictures from the trip between the interviews. It would essentially be a travel documentary thing. But again...not sure if I will actually get the change to see my sisters before Thursday.
These could all be potentially ideas for my final project. I would definitely have time to develop them between now and then. Although track is almost done with and so I would need a different angle for that idea.
So far these are my ideas for my final project...but like I said before...haven't really been thinking about it that much!
apologies for being gone for so long
Okay...so I have been seriously neglecting my blog for the last few weeks. So I will be coming back and actually doing my weekly blog posts from this week onward. Not much more than that though...been neglecting my homework for other classes too (work has overtaken my life!)
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