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Friday, April 29, 2016
Final Exam Warm Up
1. Probably this weekend or definitely next weekend.
2. At my house.
3. It will be about cooking my favorite meal, if I cannot think of a more original story.
4. Just a normal camera :)
5. I will use video portions when I am straining the spaghetti, just an overview when we are cooking the beef and spaghetti, and we are putting it on a plate, and eating. The Stills will be going to HEB, the slow pictures of more ingredients, when the spaghetti and sauce, and trust the transitions in between the video. My narration will be where the video portions are.
Friday, April 22, 2016
Final Exam Preview
1. First, I watched a video about how to start a project and a basic introduction. It told me about titles, splitting videos, and the different viewing modes. It also showed how to export the video and add effects.
Second, I read 5 pdf files about some of the real basic things, the ones you could understand using your intuition. They covered stuff like adding clips to the project, creating a new project, and importing video. It also taught about how to add sounds, titles, and adjusting clips.
2. I already knew how to start a new project, and both websites explained that.
3. I didn't know how to split clips in iMovie, which I probably wouldn't have figured out.
4. I am concerned if I can get a good idea and enough of the video, narration, and photos.
5. I am confident I can use some of my brain in making an idea. I mean really, there is only a few clear answers to this question, and that would be the photos, videos, and/or idea. And I am not confident I can finish any of those ahead of time.
6. If you asked me today, I would say I would tell the story of something being baked.
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
My opinions story
On Saturday, May 7th, Austin
citizens will have the chance to vote for a proposition called Prop 1. This
will decide how background checks for ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft
will be regulated.
Ridesharing Works for Austin is the
organization pushing the proposition, and a decent amount of people agree with
their views. After research, I personally disagree and believe that a no vote
is the better choice here.
Last December, the city council voted for
the ordinance put in place currently. This ordinance does have fingerprint
based background checks.
If Prop 1 passes, then the current
ordinance will be repealed, Uber and Lyft will be responsible for background
checks, and drivers will not have to give their fingerprints.
If Prop 1 is rejected, drivers will have
to undergo fingerprint based background checks done by the city and run through
the FBI’s database.
Officials with both companies have
criticized fingerprint requirements as overly burdensome and unnecessary.
Drivers working fewer than 20 hours a week are critical to the reliability of
their services, they say, and requiring them to visit an office to be
fingerprinted dissuades many from signing up. I can completely see their point,
and I acknowledge how the current laws are detrimental to them. However, having
people giving their fingerprints isn’t nearly as important as the public’s safety.
One of the main things that really unsettles
me about Uber and Lyft doing their own background checks is that in San
Francisco and Los Angeles, Uber had been ordered to pay 10-25 million.
Apparently, Uber had misleading claims
about the quality of its background checks. Do we really want that kind of
trouble in Austin? And that isn’t the only misleading thing.
Some of you may have seen the Prop 1
commercial explaining the benefits of Prop 1. But this commercial is deceptive.
The commercial implies that if Prop 1 pass and take effect, that background
checks will not be required, which is completely wrong.
The truth is that there will be background
checks no matter how the vote turns out. The ad was created to make the viewers
think they are voting for background checks, not for Uber and Lyft to do the
background checks. And let me ask you this: Why else would a group be deceptive
to the public if they weren’t lying or hiding something?
Uber’s aggressiveness for Prop 1 is
shown when Uber threatened to cease operations in Austin if the proposition is
not accepted. But in Houston, they have continued to operate despite a
regulation that requires drivers there to undergo fingerprint based background
checks.
Not to mention the companies are desperately
trying to buy out their opposers, donating 2.2 million dollars for Prop 1 to
pass.
The ballot will also ask
voters if the original ordinance should be repealed and replaced with a law
that would “prohibit required fingerprinting, repeal the requirement to
identify the vehicles with a distinctive emblem" and "repeal the
prohibition against loading and unloading passengers in a travel lane."
Prop 1 will cause the companies to be
able to control all background checks, allowing them to be deceptive just like
they were in San Francisco. However, if we keep our current regulations,
background checks become more thorough, and the people safer. So who do you
listen to: the deceptive, rich businesses, or the city council we have ourselves
voted for? Don’t fall for Prop 1, and vote a straight, fat, NO to Prop 1.
Monday, April 18, 2016
SNO Online Papers
Web restrictions cause students grief, restricts learning potential
1. The Eagle's Eye editorial board
2. The new stricter web restrictions.
3. "We understand cyber safety is important and the school district wants to protect us from inappropriate content, but the filter that is now in place inhibits students with its flaws more than it protects us."
4. Yes, they said they know that AISD wants to protect students from inappropriate content and from getting distracted.
5. No, not at all, they didn't say maybe if, they said it is.
6. Kinda, not really, it says,"The school district has claimed that we as students will receive lessons about cyber safety, but this has not been put into place."
7. 1st person
Reexamining Exams: Should the ACT and SAT be eliminated?
1. Lucia Hruby
2. The ACT and SAT tests
3. "The test no longer tests a student’s intellectual ability, but their ability to finance taking both the ACT and SAT multiple times in order to be successful in their scores."
4. Yes
5. No, they didn't say anything equivalent to "unless".
6. No
7. 1st person
Drawbacks of the "Incentives"
1. Editors of The Lone Star Dispatch
2. The new attendance incentives
3. "Though these incentives have a lot of benefits and motivate a lot of students, that does not conceal the fact that these incentives are slightly unrealistic and take away and threaten more than they provide."
4. Yes
5. No, they were seemed certain that the drawbacks outweighed the incentives.
6. No
7. 3rd person
Personal Essays
1. Whatever you strongly care about is a good thing to write about.
2. "Make (your) emotions real and immediate by noting specifics and details that draw the reader into the experience, rather than just setting them aside as observers."
3.
- In a personal essay you have the freedom to think what you like on a subject, but your reader should go away with a good idea of why you feel that way.
- Think of your essay as a camera lens. You might start by describing a fine detail (your personal experience or perspective, a specific moment in the narrative), then open up the lens to take in the wide view (the general/global backdrop), then close the piece by narrowing back to the fine detail. Or go the other way. Start with the wide view, focus in, then open up to the wide view again.
- Write as evocatively as possible. Employ all the senses. Using sight comes naturally to most writers; push harder to convey ideas and images through sound, taste, touch, and hearing.
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Opinions writing preview activity
Apple refuses to violate privacy of users
1. Editors
2. How Apple refused the FBI to give them a "back door" into an iPhone.
3. "Although the phone could yield valuable information, we believe that the FBI is asking Apple for too much at the risk of all other iPhone owners."
4. Yes
5. No, they never said its ok if.. or its fine if.., they were very certain about their opinion.
6. No direct quotes, some paraphrasing.
7. 3rd POV
Drug dog investigators have students feeling as though their rights are being violated at school
1. Granger Coats
2. The punishments of offenses are too severe.
3. "However, the current rules and handling of student offenses is flawed."
4. No
5. No, they don't show anything that meant unless...
6. Yes, from the AISD student code of conduct.
7. 1st person
Social media, back at it again
1. Alicia Molina
2. What happens when something on the internet is a hit.
3. "I think it's great that people are using their fame for good and they are not keeping it all to themselves, we need more people like Daniel and Josh who use their fame for good."
4. No
5. No, they didn't show Daniel and Josh themselves in a negative view.
6. Yes, from Josh.
7. 1st person
Beyonce causes controversy
1. Fuaad Ajaz
2. About how Beyonce's new music video is very controversial.
4. Yes many times, kept saying that they disliked the song but didn't say why.
5. No, they didn't say maybe if or anything like that.
6. Yes
7. 3rd person
Is the AP world history test worth it?
1. Mia Barbosa
2. About the AP world history test and how it was worth trying for.
3. "Considering all of the time, money and stress a students can save themselves by tempting to take the test for a fee of only $93 I believe it is a great idea to try."
4. No
5. No, they believed anyone could get the credit if they really tried.
6. No
7. 3rd + 1st POV
A. A hard news story has a lot more quotes from interviewed people. A hard news story does not have a direct opinion from the author, it has more facts. Finally, a hard news story has a real-life photo, not an art piece.
B. I think there were less photos because this was less of a news story and more of opinions, and you can't depict opinions very well with real-life photos.
C. New laws/policies, Controversies, and the presidential race/election, especially if there was a person writing for the major sides.
Peer Review SoM
Alyssa G's Blog
http://alyssaphotojournalismblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/student-of-month-story.html
Paragraphs- 50
5 quotes- 25
Inverted Pyramid- 22
Extra Credit- 0
Total: 97
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Finished Earthquake story
On Monday, the earthquake caused a building housing Mc Henry's Auto Supply to partially collapse.
The earthquake happened at 8:12 a.m. PDT time, hitting all over in San Francisco, with the Hayward area receiving the most damage. The collapse happened at 2342 Plum St, killing 2 people and injuring 6 others. Some people were also trapped inside the rubble and remains of the building. There were an estimated 18 people in the building at the time of the earthquake.
"The names of the dead are being withheld pending notifications of families," Hayward public information officer Jennifer Vu from the Hayward Fire department said.
3 of the 6 injured were hurt seriously enough and had to be hospitalized.
"Those 3 people were quickly transferred to Hayward General Hospital," Vu added.
Hayward firefighters, alerted from 54 different 911 calls, had to use ropes quickly to stabilize the shop, allowing the injured and others to get out safely.
"Twenty-one fire personnel, 12 police and five American Red Cross workers responded to the building collapse, with some of them arriving within four minutes of the quake," Vu said.
The earthquake was definitely a scary and destructive one, putting many lives in danger as well as doing considerable damage to the city in general..
"I was eating my breakfast when the room started rolling. I dove under the table just as I heard an explosion outside and a chunk of cement flew through my kitchen window. That’s when the screaming started across the street," Hayward resident Mike Beamer said.
The earthquake was measured as a 6.4 on the Richter scale, reaching all the way from Los Angeles to Redding.
"The epicenter of the quake was on the Hayward fault, just under the Hayward hills," said Penny Gertz, a scientist from the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park.
Huntington Story
Who: Janice Jones
What: Shot through the right leg
When: 10 p.m. Wednesday
Where: Beach Boulevard near Highway 1
Why: Dog knocked gun off of a seat.
How: Gun fired when it hit the floor.
Story:
Janice Jones got shot through the leg about 10p.m. Wednesday near Highway 1 and Beach Boulevard.
Jones was eating pork chops in her motor home when her dog knocked over a gun on a seat nearby. The gun fired when it hit the floor, the bullet going through her right leg.
"It could have been worse," California Highway Patrol press liaison Tammy Rye said. "The bullet hit two inches from the gas tank."
Jones was taken to Huntington Beach hospital by ambulance, then moved to Irvine Medical Center.
"Jones was treated at Huntington Beach," says Huntington Beach Hospital spokesperson Jim Washington.
The dog was found malnourished and with cigarette marks on its forehead.
“It could have done with a little less abuse and a few more of those pork chops,” Janet Ngo said, one of the Huntington Beach animal control officers.
“It could have done with a little less abuse and a few more of those pork chops,” Janet Ngo said, one of the Huntington Beach animal control officers.
Jones may be charged for animal abuse and relating to the incident, for she had no license for the gun.
Friday, April 8, 2016
News Values
Novelty
I believe this is a story based on novelty because when does a kid almost choke on an octopus? I mean, other things like toys are normal, but an octopus is a really weird thing to choke on.
Toddler who choked on octopus recovering
Conflict
I believe this story is based on conflict, for if many Belgians are starting to want to succeed into Flemish, that is most definitely conflicting the other half who aren't in Flemish. This is nowhere to being close to the Americas, so it can't really affect the audience of this post either.
Rattled by Attacks, Many Belgians Still Want Nation Split in Two
Prominence
I think this is a Prominence because Sea world is a big company, or at least used to be. Also, this is a huge change for SeaWorld, and I wonder what their next step will be.
End of an era: Sea World yields to critics of killer whale shows, which will change
The Sea World group of three marine parks responds to negative attention focused on a main attraction – black-and-white killer whales performing stunts for visitors. The current 29 whales on display will be the last generation of orcas at the wildlife parks in Orlando, San Diego and San Antonio. Sea World, which stopped capturing wild whales more than 30 years ago, now will stop breeding the magnificent, intelligent creatures to phase out their display. In the meantime, rather than having them leap and twist in response to trainers' signals, it will present a "more naturalistic show and environment for our orcas," says Joel Manby, president and chief executive. "And we're going to teach all of our customers about the plight of them in the wild."
Novelty
I think this is a novelty-based story because if the whole jetpack thing works out, we(the public) will probably still be unable to use them anytime soon. Also, a jetpack is kind of unusual, and its still weird to think jetpacks being sold to anyone.
Jetpack firm nears liftoff but creator opts out
Glenn Martin was sitting in a bar with his college buddies 35 years ago when they got to wondering: Whatever happened to flying cars and jetpacks?
Conflict
This story shows conflict between ISIS and, well, everyone else in the world. ISIS kidnapped many factory workers northeast of Damascus.
ISIS Abducts Workers From Cement Factory in Syria
Novelty
This story is about a person who has wrote down his language to make sure that even when it may never be spoken, the culture is preserved. So since this is not very common in life or in news stories, I think this is a story driven by novelty.
An Heir to a Tribe’s Culture Ensures Its Language Is Not Forgotten
Proximity
This story is about MoPac and how a lane will be closed for quite a while. Since this will only affect people in Austin, and it is not very interesting to any other people, this has to be a story based on proximity
MoPac lane closure starts Sunday
The right lane of northbound MoPac Boulevard (Loop 1), from 35th Street to 45th Street, will close for up to six months starting Sunday morning, giving crews more room to work on the ongoing toll lane construction project.Monday, April 4, 2016
Nut Graf
A nut graf is probably the most important paragraph in a news story. It, from what I've gathered, contains the part of the story that tells the reader why this story is important. It answers the reader's question, "Why should I bother reading this story?" It also helps the reader see where the story is going and whether or not they want to read the story.
The nut graf is also used to answer whatever 5W's and 1 H wasn't answered in the lead, or first paragraph. It's used to explain the lead as well and how it relates to the rest of the story. After reading the lead and nut graph, the reader should know what the story is about. If he/she cannot do that, then the nut graf is not written well enough the way its supposed to.
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