Kizoa:

Its a great way to create a slideshow using special and creative effects. It show your creativeness and individuality when working with graphics and art on computers.

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Kearson Cooper

Lisa Williams 

Lynn McGrier

Twitter:

Twitter is a great source of communication in today's society. It allows us to interact with our peers, create a status to voice our opinions, post a picture or video and to stay up to date with the latest gossip. Celebrities use Twitter as way to promote their latest song or album, and inspire their fans as well.

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Chapter 7 Discussion Questions:

1 1.  Provide essential detail, help give stories spirit and atmosphere, and impart vital spontaneity. Part of the Interviewers, function is to gather facts, but an equivalent obligation is to reveal the person being interviewed.

2  2.  Cooperation, establish a rapport, and you’ll have to be open enough to let people come know and trust you.

3  3.    Leave the chewing the gum at home, and refrain from sitting unless you are invited. Be friendly but no over-familiar.

4  5.  Retain control of every interview, focus on familiar work and surroundings than if they forced to focus on themselves, their appearance or their performance during the interview. Remember not to ask for or suggest action unless the person already routinely performs the activity in your absence.

5  6.  To help preserve the spontaneity, try not to share questions in the advance of the interview. Because they ordinarily put most of their energy in the first response.

8  8.The more you know the source, the more confidence you give the person and the more you can concentrate on listening without having to worry about the next question.

7 11.   Bad body language

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Green Screen Clips:

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Discussion Questions: Chapter 6

1. The types of microphones that are used to cover news events are handheld, lavaliere, and a shotgun mic. The strength of the handheld are they are rugged, reliable and affordable and can record anything. The weakness is reporters push them into peoples faces. The lavaliere strength is it can be taped to someones chest and can be hidden from the cameras. Their weakness is the output can become less vibrant and more tinny the farther they are used from the sound source. The strength of the shotgun mic is it allows usuable quality sound to be recorded from quite a distance in a perfectly quiet enviroment.

6. Some of the important considerations in concealing the miniature mic are if the speaker wears a low cut blouse or sweater, fasten the microphone right under the lapel or neck band with a safety pin or a small piece of gaffer's tape. Also if the person wears casual clothing, a jogging outfit or will be active, use safety pins and tape to hold the microphone and cable in place.

7. The most important considerations to follow to achieve good quality sound in the field are experiment with microphone placement, monitor recording levels, and monitor sound with earphones.

8. It is essential for the photojournalist to constantly monitor sound to determine whether field recordings are clean and free of dropouts and distortion.

9. Some of the techniques to reduce wind noise is putting some acoustic foam on a mic, putting the mic under the subjects clothes, repositioning the subjects with their back to the wind and inserting a high pass or low cut filter in a mic.

13. Good sound is compelling, involing, and engaging. Good sound builds on prior experience that viewers themselves bring to the screen. When we hear sounds on television that imitate or draw from our own life experiences, we are able to contribute to the story a more profound and intimate depth of understanding.

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Reflective Screen Pics:

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Discussion Questions: 101-102

1. Color Temperature- lighting sources is measured according to a scale of degrees Kelvin (K) indicates the proportion of red to blue light the light source radiates. The scenes will be either too green or blue (at color temperatures above 3200 K) or red to orange (at color temperatures below 3200 K)

3. Camera Mounted Filters: mounted in front of camera lens
Light Mounted Filters: optical glass filters positioned directly on light
Window Mounted Filters: mounted directly on windows and normally used to change the temperature

6. Key-light: replicate the look and feel of available light, almost all artificial lighting setups have one dominant light source

Fill Light: secondary light source set to produce illumination approximately one-fourth to one-half as intense as key light

11. 5600 K

13. Most news conference has three light setup. setup key and fill lights and add a back light  to help separate the subject from the background. Keep lights 7 to 8 ft away from the subject.

15.

• Never touch quartz bulbs 
• Allows bulbs to cool before packing 
• Avoid shining bright lights directly into the lenses of an older camera 
• Never discharge the batteries

   

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3 Photos, 3 Forms of Lights

No Light Photo

Fill Light: secondary light source set to produce illumination approximately one-fourth to one half as intense as the key light. 

Key Light: The primary or dominant light that illuminates a subject.

Back Light: Placed opposite the key light and shined down on the subject from behind. Also called a "rim light".

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Walking Video from different angles:

The video displays a walking out of the Old Engineering building on the campus of South Carolina State University. The different angles are important to display the different types of perspectives which can create a small, medium, or wide shot.

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Beauty and Brains:

Today I interviewed Brianna Simmons, a 21 year old senior from Charleston, South Carolina who majors in Broadcasting Communications at South Carolina State University. On her journey around  the campus of South Carolina State, she's involved in various organizations such as, The Student Media Crew, Media Relations, SGA also known as the Student Government Association, and Media Advocacy.

Miss Simmons also mentioned that "her motivation is her family and Oprah Winfrey." Her family plays a huge part because "she's very family oriented and in tact with her family members which helps her stay focused and ambitious." Her inspiration of Oprah Winfrey reflects on her desire to become to a news reporter for the companies of TMZ or E-News.

She mentioned some of her interests were the news, gossip, entertainment from social media or current events, celebrities, the color pink, home cooked meals, and prominent inspirational speakers to help move herself and others forward. Referring to the entertainment of her interest, the shows Empire, and Scream Queens have seem to have caught her attention.

Referring to her choice of music, Brianna has a wide genre of music which reflects on gospel, R&B, and rap. Some of her favorite artists are Erykah Badu, Jhene Aiko, SZA, and Drake. She also enjoys to watch movies,and travel. She mentioned that she traveled to the states of California, Florida, Texas, Savannah, GA and New York City, NY, with an exception of being born in Germany on August 21 of 1994, due to her parents being in the military. Some of her favorite movies are Wizard of Oz, Beyond the Lights, and Enemy.

Some of the unique attributes that stood out about Miss Simmons was her positive attitude, creative sense of style, her versatile personality, her intelligence and her broad smile.

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Twitter:

Is a great way to interact with others, promote ideas and keep up with the latest news. You can also follow the life of your favorite celebrities or role model. On Twitter instead of having friends you have followers to represent how many people your looking at or keeping up with your profile.

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Green Screen Pics

Green Screening, is a special effects and  post-production technique for layering two pictures or video streams together based on color hues, also known as the chroma range. The technique has been used heavily in many fields to remove a background from the subject of a photo or video, particularly news casting and motion pictures.

Original Green Screen Picture

Original Image 

Green Screen Final:

I chose to do my image with Wale. A Hip Hop MC. The reason I chose this photo is because I am inspired by his music as well as the moves he makes as a mogul.

Discussion Questions 1-5 Chapter 2 pg 52

1. Visual Grammar are the rules that govern the visual reconstruction of event, including the raw material shot and recorded in the field and the process of editing the material for broadcast. A journalist must be able to break simple action into its complex parts for later reconstruction at the editing bench.

2. The three basic shots in motion picture photography are the long, medium, and close up shot. The long shot also known as the wide shot provides a full view of the subject. The medium shot brings subject matter closer to the viewer and begins to isolate it from the overall environment. The close up isolates the subject entirely from its surrounding environment.

3.An example of how the three shots come together to provide continuity or consecutiveness is walking into a airport. When you first walk in you see the crowds of passengers and long rows of ticket counters (long shots). Next you use medium and close up shots as you inspect the airport. For instance if you are looking for a TV monitor that displays flight departure information you would use these shots to find it. Once you found it, you might walk up to the monitor and use a close up view to read it.

4. The different camera angles and the length of the report are considerations of when a shot or image size of a subject should be changed.

5. It is important to have action in virtually every scene because it is the strength of film and television. In TV news the goal is to incorporate  movement in every scene.

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Discussion Questions pg 22

1. Photojournalists - use the television field camera and microphone as writing and reporting instruments to tell compelling visual stories.

    Photographers - use pictures

2. The camera and microphone are used in a communicative sense

3. Because it adjusts and refines the ideas of a story to give them a point of emphasis

4. Television provides more information with more details, while the news paper gives you half of the story with more pictures and less info

5. It is information made up of images, colors, actions and sounds, and silence. It also communicates a sense of experience to viewers by incorporating matched action sequences and natural sounds.

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FreeThrow Steps

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Remember BEEF

• Keep your Balance. First off every shooter has a different routine when they step up to the free throw line, whether it is two dribbles or no dribbles at all. However, every good shooter begins with balance, there is always a nail at the middle of the free throw line, find the nail or dot and line your shooting foot up with it and be on balance this is the B in BEEF, BALANCE.
• Keep your Elbow straight. After you have your balance, have your elbow on your shooting hand line up to make an L right under the ball. Make sure your fingers are spread to insure backspin.
• Focus your Eyes on the rim. Keep your eyes on the back of the rim, so you are basically looking through the net. Aim for the back of the rim.

Follow through. After you release the ball, keep your hand up in the air for a second or two after the ball leaves it, as though you were reaching into a cookie jar.

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Step up to the free throw line.

3

Pay attention where you put your shooting hand leg. That means, if you are right-handed, line up your right foot exactly even with the basket right on the line. Vice versa for left handers. This will improve your free throw dramatically.

4

Set your feet shoulder width apart.

5

Point both feet forward, squared to the basket. Your toes should point in the direction of the basket.

Flashback to the '90s

When it comes down to the sneakers I like or like to wear, I usually go for the original sneaker or a sneaker that is slightly different which blends with my creativity. When I wear sneakers I look for a couple of things, such as the structure of the shoe, the materials in which the shoe is made up of, the comfort of the shoe and most importantly how the sneaker looks on foot.

There are certain sneakers I call the "holy grails". The reason why is because of  how rare the sneaker is, and if it's in a good condition the sneaker can be worth a lot of money. Another reason why they're called grails is because how old the sneaker is. Some collectors have sneakers that were produced dating back to the early '80s  and some may have the first original or "OG" `version of the sneaker.

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