Assessment Three - Final

Respond to the five stems below in short answer format being certain to site your sources with both links within your text and an APA reference page. Create your response document in Google Docs and share it, enabling me to comment, through the class email, comm3530@gmail.com no later than noon, Wednesday, April 29th. No exceptions.

This assessment reflects back on class discussions during the last third of the semester. It is designed to encourage you to examine each stem carefully, define terms as they apply to photojournalism, and use the tools at your fingertips to discover information pertinent to the most correct responses.

Point Value: 100

1. While composition is a driving factor in making an impact with your image, it's also a factor of newsworthiness. Please explain.

2. This feature image of Brock below breaks a rule of leading. Please describe how it breaks the rule and why it does so.

Eric Young

3. I've talked about finding stories in the people I've photographed in nonverbal displays, not just within the face, but elsewhere. With the experience of shooting almost a thousand interviews as a photojournalist, what have I defined as the first of three techniques in covering an interview? Explain why this would be effective.

4. Describe the contextual impact of the illustrative image below. While there are five contexts, there is one the photographer created specifically, the one I'm looking for you to describe.

Andrea Pettersen

5. The tweets below are from Rolling Stone Editor, Will Dana. Research and discuss the ethical dilemma Rolling Stone Journalist Sabrina Erdley was trying to circumvent by not vetting her key subject's account.


Feature Pics Picks


Lindsey Benson

Alex Lawhun

Clint Post

Aaron Hall


Jackie, Phi Kappa Psi, and The Rolling Stone



Assignment: D-Week



This year's D-Week celebrates the D's 100th anniversary. Your assignment is to feature this celebration in illustrating what students believe is Dixie State University's identity.

Your take is due by class time, Monday, April 20th.

2015 D-Week Schedule
 
MONDAY, APRIL 13
8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. - Kick Off | Diagonal/Centennial Common (FREE)
   Come and get a free pancake breakfast, enjoy music, and receive a free D-Week T-shirt!
Noon - Dixie Idol Performance | Gardner Center Living Room (FREE)
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. - Food Fest | North Encampment Mall (FREE)
 
TUESDAY, APRIL 14
7:30 p.m. - D-Queen Pageant | Cox Auditorium ($5)
 
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15

7:30 p.m. - Wednes-D Magician & Dixie Idol Finale | Garnder Ballroom (FREE)
 
THURSDAY, APRIL 16
6:00 p.m. - Break a World Record Event | Softball Parking Lot (FREE)
    Free Ice-cream & live entertainment. Bring the whole family! Don’t forget to bring your “other school” shirts and trade it in for a brand new (FREE) Dixie Shirt.
 
FRIDAY, APRIL 17
5:00 p.m. - Great Race | Hansen Stadium (FREE)
Great race team packet information, click here
6:00 p.m. - Carnival | Lower Hansen Stadium (FREE)
 
SATURDAY, APRIL 18
8:00 a.m. - Breakfast | St. George Town Square (FREE)
9:30 a.m. - Buses begin shuttling from Town Square to the "D" on the hill (FREE)
10:15 a.m. - Centennial Photo Outlining the “D” | Up on the Black Hill (FREE)
10:30 a.m. - White Wash “D” | Up on the Black Hill (FREE)
7:00 p.m. - Evening of Dixie | Eccles Main Stage (FREE)
9:00 p.m. - 11:45 p.m. - D-Day Dance | Holland Centennial Commons Plaza (FREE)
12:00 a.m. - True Rebel | Fountain (FREE)

Illustrating

Andrea Pettersen 

 Clint Black

 Emily Flegal

Nick Barnum