Questions and answers- learning to interview-Uniform policy

Assignment #1:

Topic: School Uniforms

The school board has decided to create a district wide policy of enforcing school uniforms. Who would you need to interview to find out more information about this topic? What are some good questions to ask? (This is theoretical)

1. List three different sources you could interview for this topic. Three diffrent sources that would know this topic would be the school officials, sutch as principles and staff. The teachers would be a good one as well and most inportantly the students.

2. Create 20 questions you could ask each source and post them on your blog. It will be the same 20 questions for each, so you only have to think of 20 total questions.1.How do you feel about the new policy for uniforms?
2. Do you feel it will change anything on school grounds?
3.Will they change behavior of the students?
4.Do you feel it is right for the distritct to make this choice on there own?
5.Do you think it will change the amount of people that come to school?
6.Will these uniforms cause more harm than attempt to do better?
7.How mutch will these uniforms cost?
8.How strict will you think the uniforms will be?
9.In what grades will this be designated to will it be all?
10. If the uniforms have changes on people do you think other distritcts do the same?
11.What has made the sudden change happen?
12.If you were/are a student how would this affect you?
13.Why are the districts so worried of how there students dress?
14.Shoudent the districts be  worried of other more immportant things then how there students dress?
15.Like everything in life there will be rules, what if the student breakes these?
16.Do you feel the districts should use more of there time and state money to improve school learning instead of making there students feel punished and taken away of what they wear that defines them?
17. Do you feel the inforcement of uniforms is a right taken away as in freedom of expression/speech?
18.Do you feel uniforms will not just affect the students and staff but also the perents who have to buy these uniforms?
19.Could uniforms possibley be positive change on learning?
20.If the uniforms were put in every school like the district whants will the district have for time to talk about being able to provide tex books for the school that need them who's ones are falling apart?

Sports and action shoot

Caption and evaluation practice

Fiery protest
As Colombian protesters filled the capital last week to revolt against the new taxing of small business, the aggravation of the police turned the the crowds violent. This Protester can be seen about to through a cocktail at riot control after the squad brutally began assaulting the crowed.




This Photo follows the rule of Depth due to the fact it has multiple layers of the same thing and people and objects in the foreground that balances the photo out.



This photo follows the rule of simplicity/background due to the man in the photo being the main subject and standing out from his background that is pretty simple and does not take away form the main subject.



This photo has a few rules in it that are not really just one as if the photographer added multiple rules in one shot however not complete. One of the first rule I notice is rule of thirds that is the group of horses on the bottom right corner. This rule is not complete due to one horse being on the bottom left corner alone unbalancing the photo. An other rule that seems more complete is the rule of lines/leading lines, witch are the small dirt roads that lead through the pasture for a distance witch catches the eyes of the viewer. I feel since both rules are not fully concentrated on just one rule so it is hard to be able to call the photo just one rule.

Touching people

1. What do you think about this project and photo essay?

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?

3. Think of an unusual photo shoot similar to this one that you think would be fun to go and shoot.

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?

Sports photagraphy continued

1. Watch any four of the Runner-up videos, and answer the following on your blog:
Name of photographer - Carlos Delgado
General focus of portfolio (photoj, sports, stories, etc.)- Stories
List three problems that the judges note with the portfolio -One problem that the judges found on Carlos Delgado's shoot is that he had a hard time staying on topic with his shoot. and other was the background of photos were very static many had large mergers with stuff sticking out of peoples head or the background was just to distracting.
List two things the judges like- The judges did not like much but they did note that  Carlo's pictures had a good story and with much work and motivation they can be very creative story.
What is your overall impression? What did you like or not like? I felt the same as the judges his intentions for the story were good but it seems he did not take it as seriously as he could have .


2. Watch the winning portfolio critique (Dustin Snipes), and post the following:
What did the judges note as strengths as they were critiquing it? The judges noticed that Dustin's photos followed a good path,as in the story was not off topic. they also enjoyed that his photos were very close to the subjects. An example to this is were Dustin is shooting the rugby players or runners witch ever they are and he seems to be running with them and gets a full shot in detail of one of the runners falling.

What do you see as strengths? Do you see any weaknesses? What I see as Dustin's strengths are that he is very creative and is able to plan ahead of shooting even for a split second he seems to know what he is going to shoot and he is also able keep distracting backgrounds away, however this is were his weakness starts to come in is that with out photo editing programs like photoshop his photos could have very distracting backgrounds, as some of his photos may have to mutch editing. However Dustin is a very creative photoagrapher and he can go a long way.

3. Watch the contest recap video.

Briefly describe the process the judges went through in deciding the winner. The judges looked at some rules of photoagraphy and seacherd more for photos with a story on it, they enjoyed if they could find expressions of people if a person was the main consentration.

Part 2- Individual Images

1. Describe one photo that you agree with the judges on. Explain why you and the judges do or do not like it. I agreed with the judges desicion the photo with the sumo wreseler in the category pictures of the year, due to it had good rules of photagraphy, it had leading lines and the womans facial expression made the photo even better because it helped explain the photo even more.

2. Describe one photo that you do NOT agree with the judges on. Explain why you think the judges are wrong  The photo I did not agree on with the photagraphers was the black and white photo with a basket ball team in the locker room getting ready for a game and one of the players is holding up a ball. They picked it as second place and in my opinion I did not see much rules of photagraphy in the photo, it was not as dynamic as the others and it beat the photo that got third place wich was the soccer player jumping int the air wich had good rules as in leading lines and frames and it had a good shot of the expression of the player
which made the photo stand out more.

Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan last year

In this photograph the photographer captures the devastation around the frantic survivors that are doing everything they possibly can to be rescued.

In tho photo you can barley tell that used to be a neighborhood in a Japanese town,sadly now the rescue workers look for the remains of the victims. The photographer captures this image by taking a large area view to enhance the view of devastation.

This photo caught my attention the most the photo makes you feel that someone's dreams have been broken by the devastation, everything they used to know is now just a photograph in the ruble. The photographer is able to create this image by capturing the photo while its damaged and covered in ruble compared to the victims of the earthquake.

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