Basic News Writing

5 Ws and the H

Austin district holds community budget forum tonight

Who?
Who is involved? AISD, AISD employees, and parents
Who does/did the situation affect? AISD employees
Who said so? School Board

What?
What is happening? AISD is making cuts
What did happen? AISD laid off employees
What are the consequences? Alot of employees lose their jobs
What is different about this? They lose their jobs
What are the choices?

When?
When did or will this happen? Last week
When was this discovered? They have been having meetings about budgets

Where?
Where did or will this happen? At last week's budget forum

Why?
Why did this happen or will it happen? To discuss the district's cutting 1,153 jobs, which is necessary, officials said, to balance the proposed $688 million 2011-12 operating budget.

How?
How did it or will it happen?
How much does it cost? $94.4 million
How many people does this affect? 1,153
How do you feel about this? I feel that AISD should have paid better attention to money issues before this happened.

Velarde testifies he received HGH injections from Bonds' trainer

Who?
Who is involved? Randy Velarde
Who does/did the situation affect? Velarde, team, fans, coaches
Who said so?

What?
What is happening?
What did happen? Velarde purchased performance-enhancing drugs
What are the consequences? is charged with four counts of lying and one count of obstruction for telling a grand jury in 2003 that he didn't knowingly use performance-enhancing drugs.
What is different about this?
What are the choices?

When?
When did or will this happen?
When was this discovered?

Where?
Where did or will this happen? Japan

Why?
Why did this happen or will it happen? injection of human growth hormone

How?
How did it or will it happen?
How much does it cost?
How many people does this affect?
How do you feel about this? I feel he should be punished.

Radiation levels in seawater off Japan plant spike to all-time highs

Who?
Who is involved?
Who does/did the situation affect? the people of japan
Who said so?

What?
What is happening? The levels of radiation in ocean waters off Japan's embattled Fukushima Daiichi plant continue to skyrocket
What did happen?
What are the consequences? Fishing is not allowed within 20 kilometers (12 miles) of the plant
What is different about this?
What are the choices?

When?
When did or will this happen? March 11
When was this discovered?

Where?
Where did or will this happen? Tokyo

Why?
Why did this happen or will it happen? Nuclear plants exploded

How?
How did it or will it happen? Nuclear plants exploded
How much does it cost? 25 trillion yen ($300 billion)
How many people does this affect?
How do you feel about this? I fell very sorry this happened and hope they are able to contain the radiation.

Questions and Answers

Honor Student

20 Questions

1. What did you do to work for this? made good grades and help people.
2. How do you feel about being student of the month? It feels good
3. Are you happy to be student of the month?
4. Do you believe that being student of the month requires alot of responsibility? Yeah, you have to keep grades up, and be posite.
5. What does it take to be student of the month? Good grades and good attitude.
6. How sure were you that you would become student of the month? Wasn't sure at all
7. Who helped you become student of the month? teachers, friends, and parents
8. What's your name? Aaleyah
9. How is student of the month determined?Based off, of grades and how you do in school.
10. As student of the month what are you required to do? to act like the student of the month.
11. Do you enjoy being student of the month? yeah.
12. How did people respond to you becoming student of the month? a lot of people were happy for me, and some were jealous
13. What is good about being student of the month? you get praised for your work.
14. What is bad about being student of the month? you have a lot of responsibilities to forth fill, and you cant mess up.
15. Was becoming student of the month require a lot of work? not really, i'm use to working hard.
16. Do you think being student of the month is important? kind of
17. What is expected out of student of the month? to be a leader and set a good example.
18. What other activities are you a part of? yearbook
19. Does this affect your education? no, it makes it better
20. Can you be student of the month for more than a month?  if you deserve it, sure.

1. Are you surprised or new you were gonna be student of the month?
2. how much do you enjoy, being student of the month?
3. why do you think that being student of the month is a big deal?

Assignments

School Uniforms

20 Questions

1. Whats your Name?
2. What grade are you in?
3. How long having you been attending Akins high?
4. What do you like about Akins?
5. Whats your style of dressing?
6. Where do you buy your clothes from?
7. How would you say the way you dress, describes you?
8. What do you think of the fashion at school?
9. Is it important to dress nice to school?
10. Whats the major trends at Akins?
11. What would you do if they assign School uniforms?
12. Would you wear the uniform?
13. Do you think that kids would follow the rules?
14. What do you think the school would do if they dont wear the proper uniform?
15. Do you think that Akins would be looked different?
16. Would kids from school try and make the uniforms fashionable?
17. Would you agree to wear the colors, if they were akins colors?
18. Do you think that uniforms is a good idea?
19. What do you think would happen if no one wears the uniform?
20. What would be the consequences?

Honor Student

20 Questions

1. What did you do to work for this?
2. How do you feel about being student of the month?
3. Are you happy to be student of the month?
4. Do you believe that being student of the month requires alot of responsibility?
5. What does it take to be student of the month?
6. How sure were you that you would become student of the month?
7. Who helped you become student of the month?
8. What's your name?
9. How is student of the month determined?
10. As student of the month what are you required to do?
11. Do you enjoy being student of the month?
12. How did people respond to you becoming student of the month?
13. What is good about being student of the month?
14. What is bad about being student of the month?
15. Was becoming student of the month require a lot of work?
16. Do you think being student of the month is important?
17. What is expected out of student of the month?
18. What other activities are you a part of?
19. Does this affect your education?
20. Can you be student of the month for more than a month?

Touching Strangers

Touching Strangers

1. What do you think about this project and photo essay?
I think that this is a good way for people to actually show that even if the picture doesnt go right, like it doesnt look like the people in the picture should be together they still dont care.

2. What would you do if someone approached you with a camera and asked you to participate in a photo shoot and then asked you to touch a stranger?
i would ask them whats the point of the picture, that way i can know and get whats the point so i would maybe do, unless its not a good reason.

3. Think of an unusual photo shoot similar to this one that you think would be fun to go and shoot.
i think that this would be a fun photoshoot, i would like to see peoples face reactions and to see if there willing to take the picture or they think that there too good for the people.

4. Finally, tell me what you thought of the photography, did the photographer think about the rules of photography that you know about? What types of photos did he take?
i think that the photos were pretty good, it showed and used the rules and mostly showed and made a point of the pictures.

Sports/Action

Sports/Action

Alyssa Schukar 2006 student portfolio:
photographer- Alyssa Schukar
focus- sports
3 problems- pictures from distance, not enough strong singles, all photos the same
Likes: nice background, nice graphic
The portfolio was okay. The photos had good quality and lighting. I didn't like how they were all almost repeated.

Photographer- Nick Adams
focus- sports
3 problems- Too many children and pictures don't make sense.
The judges liked the lighting of the pictures and some of the angles the pictures were taken in.
This portfolio was not that good. I didn't like most of the pictures. They were not very good topics at all.

photographer name: Sam Adams
general focus of portfolio: bikes
list three problems that the judges note with the portfolio: to many soloets, photoshop to much, people should be doing something.
list two things the judges like: background shadows
what is your overall impression? what did you like or not like? It was ok. I did not like how on some photos it didnt tell me or the judges anything about the the picture.


photographer- jordan murph
general focus- sports/ stories
3 problems- pose action, no eye contact, to many photos
list two things the judges like: good composition, good light
Impression: It started really good the first two stories. I dislike how it started really impressing but then he lost it, the pictures werent as interesting.


Dustin Snipes:
The judges thought Dustin was creative and had good composition.
His strengths are that the pictures contained almost all the rules. I don't see weaknesses.

Warm-up and assignment for today

Japan Earthquake

i think that this pictures have great colors. and actually shows what occurred or what is happening for this disaster. Theres rarely any people in the pictures but i think its good because we want to focus on the event, and it really captures good for example how it looks now, with the water floods or the small little hurricane close to the shore.

Cool advertising idea

Favorite

I really would buy this phone, its not my favorite phone but the creativity they did to sell this phone caught my eye. Its super creative, and if i was so pass through it i would of thought that it was actually a picture, but when i pay more attention to it, i realized that it was hands.