Activity Description
Over the course of the semester consider yourself on assignment to shoot a hard news story. Capture enough images with an eye to storytelling, establishing context and working into details. Post your story to your blog.Activity Rubric
1. You've composed a hard news series of images, enough to tell the story with continuity, yet edited to avoid redundancy and maximize impact and have posted your take to your blog. The technical quality of the take is impeccable, meaning clarity, exposure, composition, and ethics.50 Points
Accomplished (36-50)
Your post is comprehensive without redundancy, showing a breadth of shots from establish to detail of a hard news story - breaking, short shelf-life, pertinent. Every image is technically sound in clarity, exposure, and composition and demonstrate an ethical approach in coverage.
Developing (26-35)
Your posted series is too broad or narrow, average in scope, technically adequate but without the finesse of depth of field and/or compositional forces.
Wanting (0-25)
Your post is outside the definition of hard news, lacks variety of coverage and suffers technically.2. Your take shows the progression of your coverage. You've written an analysis of your take establishing and identifying context (physical, psychological, social and cultural at the very least).
100 Points
Accomplished (75-100)
Your posted take's analysis establishes environment, relationships, emotion, departure from norms all identified categorically by context.
3. You've edited your images using digital darkroom technology resulting in an improved image without compromised editorial content, posting both your before and after images and defining your technique.
50 Points
Developing (61-75)
Your post gets into an analysis of how you're portrayed the story photographically, but without a contextual analysis.
Wanting (0-60)
Your posts lacks analysis.3. You've edited your images using digital darkroom technology resulting in an improved image without compromised editorial content, posting both your before and after images and defining your technique.
50 Points
Range (25-50)
Your posted take shows a continuity of editing with equal levels of adjustment in contrast, color balance. Additional cropping may have been used to refine composition without disturbing its editorial content.
