My interview with Mark

1. How do you feel being the student of the month? Accomplished
2. Was this one of your goals? No
3. How did you accomplish it? By getting good grades
4. Do you think you deserve to be in this position? Yes
5. Has this ever been within your expectation? No
6. What do you think you should do to be a role model? Be a leader
7. How do you represent yourself as the student of the month? By bragging
8. Describe some of your leadership skills. Not following a crowd
9. Who has the biggest influence or impact on you? My parents
10. What is your motivation? My mom
11. How will you maintain yourself as being the student of the month? Keep up with good grades and good work
12. Did you think this was competitive?  Yes
13. What part of you that you think you deserve to be student of the month? Be myself
14. What was your first thought when you were chosen as the student of the month? I was shocked because I didn't think I would win it
15. What were some of the challenges that you came across with?Keeping my grades high
16. What do you think is the most important part of being the student of the month? You earn more respects
17. What do you think are your responsibilities? Be nice to people
18. What are some of the achievements in the past years? Not that I could think of it
19. Would you want to be the student of the month again? Yes
20. If yes, what would you do to achieve your goal? Keep my grades high 

 Rewritten Questions 

2) How does that make you feel you have succeeded in something?
4) Do you think you deserve this position? Why or why not?
5) How do you think people will look at you differently?
12) Do you consider this was one of your most challenging goals? Why or why not?

Student of the Month Interview

Student of the Month Questions

1. How do you feel being the student of the month?
2. Was this one of your goals?
3. How did you accomplish it?
4. Do you think you deserve to be in this position?
5. Has this even been within your expectation?
6. What do you think you should do to be a role model?
7. How do you represent yourself as the student of the month?
8. Describe some of your leadership skills.
9. Who has the biggest influence or impact on you?
10. What is your motivation?
11. How will you maintain yourself as being the student of the month?
12. Did you think this was competitive? 
13. What part of you that you think you deserve to be student of the month?
14. What was your first thought when you were chosen as the student of the month? 
15. What were some of the challenges that you came across with?
16. What do you think is the most important part of being the student of the month? 
17. What do you think are your responsibilities?
18. What are some of the achievements in the past years?
19. Would you want to be the student of the month again?
20. If yes, what would you do to achieve your goal?

Interviewing skills

Assignment #1
Topic: School uniforms
1) Sources: Teachers, school principal, students
2) Interview Questions
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?   

1. What will the uniforms look like?
2. What are the rules or restrictions to types of clothes students are supposed to wear?
3. What level of school will be enforced with this? For ex: elementary, middle school etc.
4. How would the students react to this new policy?
5. What would be done if students including parents oppose to this?
6. What solutions would be made if there are students violating the policy?
7. What would the punishments be? Or warnings?
8. How are teachers involved to have control of students violating the policy?
9. Why should we have a school uniform policy?
10. What is the main purpose?
11. How strict should this be?
12. Are there any exceptions? For ex: Hair, shoes etc..
13. Are there any facial restrictions? Ex: piercings, or hair etc..
14. How are uniforms provided? How do students get their uniforms?
15. When will the policy be enforced?
16. What were some of the problems that the school board were encountered with in order to come up with a consensus?
17. What actions would be done if a student comes to school without their uniform?
18. What if students can't afford uniforms?
19. How will the uniforms be relative to certain weathers?
20. Finally, do you think this will be effective toward school board or schools expectations?

Sports/Action more details

PART 1 - Portfolios 

1)

Video 1
Name of photographer - Nick Adams
General focus - Stories
List three problems  -out of focus, badly framed, common topics
List two things the judges like- Headless cheerleader, silhouette
What is your overall impression? What did you like or not like?
This portfolio was boring because the topics were common and there was nothing interesting. I didn't like the first picture of the portfolio because it was nasty and disgusted!!


Video 2
Name of photographer - Jordan Murph
General focus -Sports & stories
3 Problems -several same topics (point of views), merger, some pictures were boring and stupid
2 things judges like - strong graphics, great compositions
I mostly like the sport photos because they had great compositions

Video 3
Name of photographer - Sam Adams
General focus -stories
3 probs - some bad compositions, too much photoshop in one picture, some pictures could've been better if there was action.
2 things judges like - upside down silhouette, simple shadow
 Some of the pictures were boring and plain but the rest are pretty interesting.

Video 4
Name of photographer - Melissa Golden
General focus - Stories
3 problems - out of focus on motion, too much going on in a picture, some pictures are messy
2 things judges like - nice portrait
I don't really like this portfolio because most of the story pictures are common topic. The one that I like most if a portrait of an old man's face.

2)  Winner  - Dustin Snipes

What did the judges note as strengths as they were critiquing it?
-Compositions, colors, subject of the picture, action/motion in the picture, creativity,
What do you see as strengths? Do you see any weaknesses?
The strengths that I see are he combined a lot of compositions in the photos and the pictures aren't boring because they have at least some motion in there. The weakness that I see is several pictures are common topic.

3) Deciding the winner process

First they go through all the picture portfolios again and make additional comments to which portfolio they could eliminate. They also discuss with each other about the good features and flaws as well about the pictures. Once they've come to the portfolio they feel the stronger, they go in more details about discussing about it.


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.
The picture that I agree with the judges is on Part 2 video. The photographer captured the moment of a woman soccer player looks like shes screaming at the top of her lungs. It shows the intensity of a player when they made a goal. The composition is also neat.
2. Describe one photo that you do NOT agree with the judges on. Explain why you think the judges are wrong.
The picture that I disagree with the judges is the picture of a woman and a sumo wrestler on the escalators. I think they should have eliminated it because it's inappropriate and gross to show someone's butts!!!!!!!!!!!

Japanese Earthquake

I feel that this disaster has brought so much pain to the people in Japan. The feeling of losing family could tear them down and not knowing how their lives gona start again is gona be a bigger challenge to them.
I think cropping rule of photo compositions was in the picture.

I feel that this is such a sad scene because there could be more people waiting to be rescued under those houses that have been swept away. There probably be little kids finding their parents also. It is tragic that so many innocent people died from this disaster.
I think the photographer used balancing rule of photo composition. The rescue workers are balancing to the smoke

 

I feel that it is so sad that people are losing their houses and family. They would have no place to stay and everything that they have had was swept away. It is such a pain to start your life over with nothing. 

I think the photographer used balancing because the houses are balanced to the ship. 

Touching People

1. It's cool because you get to explore what's new out there and it's kind of weird at the same time because in the pictures, most of the people don't look comfortable at all. You can't even see the connection between them through these pictures even though they are strangers. But a picture would look better if there's a little emotion in it. Like you could actually feel something by looking at the picture.

2. I would feel awkward because obviously I don't know the stranger and why would I touch them. But I would still participate just to be nice :)

3. An unusual photo shoot that would be fun to shoot is taking pictures of seashells at the beach.


4. I think he wasn't really focusing on the rules of photo composition because all of the pictures look the same.

Advertising Blog

I like this advertiser because it looks incredibly creative. They use hands to create this master piece but you can't really see the hands. It's hard to identify that they are hands.

I would buy an AT&T phone because the way they advertise their products is cool, attractive and it would capture the consumers' attentions.