Basic News Writting

 Article #1 : Austin District holds community budget forum tonight

Who? Austin School District parents and employees.
Who is involved? administrators
Who does/did the affect? teachers and schools
 Who said so? school board

What? anticipated $94.4 million shortfall
What is happening?listened to administrators, lay out the preliminary 2011-12 budget.
What did happen? school administrators are still deciding on what will happen.
What are the consequences? more cuts and possibly school closures.
What is different about this? 
What are the choices?  school closures and possibly an estimaded of 1,153 jobs

When? Last week
When did or will this happen? last week , and will have a meeting on April 11.
When was this discovered?

Where? Austin School District Headquarters
Where did or will this happen?6:30 p.m. at Bowie High School, 4103 W. Slaughter Lane , in Southwest Austin.

Why? To discuss district cutting of jobs, and schools.
Why did this happen or will it happen?  feedback from the forum will be taken into consideration as officials revise the budget,

How?
How did it or will it happen? many budget wise problems
How much does it cost? The state could cut Austin's funding by more than $79 million
How many people does this affect?
How do you feel about this? I feel that of what they are doing, cutting all these jobs, and making the decision of closing schools is unessary, i think after a while all the problems are going to be back to normal. many kids are going to left with no school and going to end up going to a school that they are not use to. Many parents don;t want their kids to change schools , thats why the whole community needs to put in effort in making not closed down the schools , laid off many teachers.

Article #2: Velarde testifies he received HGH injections from Bonds' trainer

 Who?
Who is involved?Barry Bonds, Randy Velarde, Greg Anderson, Jason Giambi, Jeremy Giambi, Marvin Benard
Who does/did the situation affect? The whole professional baseball community
Who said so?Someone


What?
What is happening? Barry Bonds and Randy Velarde are being convicted of taking steroids.
What did happen? others were also trying the drugs.
What are the consequences? not being able to play in the team.
What is different about this? That its, not cool that they are doing this.
What are the choices? I guess, being sent to jail, in this case like this.

When?
When did or will this happen? Happened on Wednesday.
When was this discovered? 2003

Where?
Where did or will this happen? In court.

Why?
Why did this happen or will it happen? They found out, with the drug test.

How?
How did it or will it happen? once tthe drug test being confirmed, they were sent to court,
How much does it cost? Not sure about this.
How many people does this affect? It affected so many people in the team , whom that gave the drugs to.
How do you feel about this? I feel about this that they should of not done this , With them doing that it just made them get off the team and also their other team members.



Article#3: Official: Tens of thousands of evacuees can't head home for months
Who?
Who is involved? Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano and evacuees.
Who does/did the situation affect? people living close to the nuclear plant.
Who said so?  The chief of Tokyo

What?
What is happening? evacuees candt go back to their home , like until a couple of weeks.
What did happen? They  cant go back.
What are the consequences? many disasters may cause,
What is different about this? That living next to a nuclear power plant is really bad.
What are the choices? no go close to it , stay indoors,

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

Where?
Where did or will this happen? happened in a nuclear power plant in Tokyo

Why?
Why did this happen or will it happen? Happened since the earthquake, and these people have to leave. so noting will happen to them .

How?
How did it or will it happen? happen soon or later
How much does it cost? not sure
How many people does this affect?  This is going to affect so many people.
How do you feel about this? I feel  that all these people have to leave , or if they want anything to happen to them. sad for all these people who dont want to leave their home , but they have no other choice, in leaving for their best.

Student of the Month

Student of The Month- Interviewing Questions

1. Hi what is your name?
2. Hows your day?
3. What grade are you in?
4. What are you majoring after high school?
5. How does it feel to be student of the month?
6. What is you favorite subject in school?
7. Have you ever been choosen to be student of the month?
8. What do your friends think of you being student of the month?
9. Did you try your best in being student of the month?
10. Do you plan in going to college?
11. What do teachers say about you ?
12. Are they glad they have choosen you?
13. Are you a straight-A student in this school year?
14. Being student of the month do your siblings look up to you?
15. Are you happy of being student of the month?
16. Do you volunteer in community service, if yes what do you do ?
17. Do you participate in any after-school program?
18. How did you accomplish being student of the month?
19. Do you think you should be student of the month?
20. Why do you think people voted for you?

Answers:
1.  Carolina Suniga
2.  Day is going well
3.  10th grader
4.  Photography
5.  Feels pretty great
6.  Theatre
7.  No
8.  They are happy, of her being student of the month.
9.  Yes, she tried her best.
10.Yes
11. Say, that she deserver it.
12. Yes
13. No.
14. Yes
15. She is happy
16. No , Community Service
17. No
18. Did homework evernight, and she tryed her best.
19. Yes.
20. Because, she tried hard and never gave up.


Changed Questions:
7. Not being student of the month in past years, why do you think they have choosened you?
9. How hard was it to get to be student of the month?
10. Do you plan in going to college, why?
12. Do you think teachers have a greater expectation of you, now that you are student of the month?
13. Are you a straight A- student in this school year, why or why not?
14. In your family do your siblings look up to you, why or why not?
15. Do you volunteer in community service, why or ,if  yes what do you do ?
17. How much of work of school do you do daily?
18. How do you consider yourself student of the month?

Interviewing Skills- School Uniforms

Assignment#1

Topic: School uniforms

List three different sources you could interview for this topic:

• students
• teachers
• parents

Questions:

1. "Hi, what is your name"?
2. Hows your day?
3. What do you think about school uniforms?
4. Have you gone to a school, where you had to wear school uniforms?
5. If you were to wear a school uniform one day, how would you feel?
6. Do you perfer dress code or school uniforms?
7. How would you picture yourself wearing a school uniform same as the other students?
8. If your school would to enforce school uniforms, and all schools.How would you react?
9. How does this affect you?
10. Do you think is neccessary for the board trustees to do this?
11. Why do you think they don't want the students to wear regular clothing?
12. Spending money on school uniforms, is really not neccessary

Sports Action and details.

 #1 Alyssa Schukar- runner-up
Name of photographer -Alyssa Schukar
General focus of portfolio (photoj, sports, stories, etc.)- The general focus of the porfolio is everydaylife.
List three problems that the judges note with the portfolio -
1. That all photos are taken the same way
2. similar focus and the way it is taken on each photo
3.  same story of photos.
List two things the judges like-
1.  the picture that the photographer has token, of the man sweeping with the great background.
2. the photo of the , girl  when she fell jumping the hurdle.
What is your overall impression? What did you like or not like?
my overall impression of this photo story is that the pictures could of been taken better, not the same thing on each of the photos.  Some pictures were really good , like the one of man sweeping , the streets that was really a good photo.

#2 Carlos Delgado- runner-up
 Name of photographer - Carlos Delgado
General focus of portfolio (photoj, sports, stories, etc.)- stories, and everyday life.
List three problems that the judges note with the portfolio -
1.  in the photos taken , there is cluster in the backgrounds.
2. things are growing out of the persons head
3. pictures are out focus.
List two things the judges like-
1. some of the photos are taken in really good focus.
2. the content of some photos are good.

What is your overall impression? What did you like or not like?
My overall imprression of this is that , most of the photos are taken with to much stuff in the background. Some great photos but i guess the photographer could of shooted his pictures better ., with great focus and great backgrounds.


#3 Justin Mott - runner -up
 Name of photographer - Justin Mott.
General Focus of portfolio- The general focus of the portofolio is , around the world , photographs from Vietnam, Bolivia.
List three problems that the judges note with portofolio-
1. somewhat good of pictures.
2. selective focus with the photos.
3. good point of view on the photos , new thing to try out. List two things the judges like-
1. they like how the photgrapher takes the photos , in great point of view.
2. his pictures have alot of space, in them making the judges not like the photos , or like them. something new they have seen.

What is your overall impression? What did you like or not like?
My overall impression of this portfolio story , it was great some really great photos that Justin Mott has taken. Some thigs that i like is that he photograph,  people in real life and what they are really living the world right now.


#4 Sam Adams-runner-up
Name of photographer - Sam Adams
General focus of portfolio (photoj, sports, stories, etc.)- general focus of portofolio is sports.
List three problems that the judges note with the portfolio -
1. some pictures aren't that good.
2. some are out focus.
3. picture of the swimmer girl, one of the other ones is faced backwards.
List two things the judges like-
1. they like some of the photos.
2. the photo of the self-portriat, of the guy, liked that photo.

What is your overall impression? What did you like or not like?
My overall impression of this photo story, is the photographer could of done some other great photos, some of his pictures were good, but the other ones, were not so good.
I like how the photographer takes photographs of sports people in real life, and catch them in there moments , either they are reaching for the ball , or reacting to the game.

Dustin Snipes- winner-
What did the judges note as strengths as they were critiquing it?
The judges note the photographer has taken photographs of good composition, has got in the activites to shoot a photograph, has captured moments in which all the team players are doing something.


What do you see as strengths? Do you see any weaknesses?
Strenghs creativeness, exploring new things.
weakness, somewhat of photos he could of done better, but overall  he has done a great job with this portofolio. Judges did good in choosing him as a good photographer.

3. Watch the contest recap video.

Briefly describe the process the judges went through in deciding the winner.
 They look at which story has the best photos , with no blank spots. and they also decided on the winner , if they don't repeat the same concept of photos throudgh out the photo stories.
Then they decide on the  winner.










 

Touching People.

1. What do you think about this project and photo essay?
I think this project is great some really got photos, and the photo essay was good.
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?
If someone approched me with the camera . and asked to participate in the shoot , and touch a stranger, um you could say I would do it .
3. Think of an unusual photo shoot similar to this one that you think would be fun to go and shoot.
An unusual photo shoot similar to this one, i guess would be shooting little children, with adults, but at different places . or people of different cultures.
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? The photography was good , some really great photos. He took photos out in the environment.

Japanese Earthquakes



This photo makes me feel , sad. Its sad seeing Japan being treated like this by this Earthquake. Im in shock seeing this
Only words to say is WOW! The composition that is being used in this photo is lines, You see lines in the sort of formation of waves  forming, in the ocean. He used the technique of shooting from top view.

This photo is sad because, seeing how this half of the road got seperated by its other half.  The composition this photographer used  was leading lines the lines in the road leading to the other workers.

 This photo is sort of weird. , the composition used is repition. on all the cars next to each other and all sort of the same color , and funny how there is only two cars thar are colored and the rest are white.



Cool Advertising Ad.

This is my favorite advertising ad because its really cool. I like the design that ATAT has done. I think with this advertising it would encourage me to buy a phone. It tells you the best coverage out of all phone companies . And have good coverage over alot of countries.