Basic News Writing

Who? "The Hurt Locker"
Who is involved?James Cameron's
Who does this situation affect? No one really just the people that he won against.
Who said so? I did i read his information.

What?"The Hurt Locker" earned six Oscars at the 82nd annual Academy.
What is happening?Star Wars" blockbuster era, defeated its primary competition
What did happen? He defeated its primary competition
What are the consequences?Both films led the pack with nine nominations each.
What is different about this?At First "The Hurt Locker" won Six Oscars and now the films led them to nine nominations.
What are the choices? The choices are that he can keep moving his career forward and make more movies.

When?This happening in 2008-2009
When did or will this happen?Since he kept moving forward all this happened in 2008-2009
When was this discovered?It doesn't say.

Where?annual Academy Awards Sunday night,
Where did or will this happen?Los Angeles, California

Why?Because he is such a good Filmer.
Why did this happen or will it happen?Because he growing into a great producer and knows what he is doing.

How?He learned from people, and he experiences that he had in the future.
How did it or will it happen?It will happen when people watch his movies and they star the movie.
How much does it cost?It doesn't say
How many people does this affect?It doesn't really affect anyone, but there may be people mad because they didn't win the awards that he did.
How do you feel about this?I think its pretty cool that someone like that can move forward with something they like to do.

Architecture preview assignment

La Pedrera, Spain
1. josep Maria jujol
2. Built between 1906 and 1910
3.passeig de Gracia
4.you are able to visit
5. No information
6. They built the building for the Milia family
7. The reason for me picking this building is because it looks very interesting and i wanted to learn some information about it. I would love to attend La Pedrera, Spain just to rome the place and see all of the beautiful buildings.



Atomium, Belgium
1. André Waterkeyn
2.It was built in 1958
3.Brussels skyline;
4.you can visit
5.No information
6.built for the world fair in Brussels
7.The reason for me picking this is because its very interesting to me. this mans work is to the extreme.







Guggenheim Museum, Spain
1.Frank Gehry
2.in 1977
3.Bilbo Spain
4.yes you can visit
5.There is no information
6.doesnt say
7.i choose this place because, the color of the pictures caught my eye.





Sculptured House, USA
1.Mount Fuji
2.It doesnt say when it was built
3.Shizuoka, Japan.
4.This building is up for site seeing and visiting
5.I didnt see anything on how much it cost.
6.They wanted to build something around trees and around a nice environment.
7.The reason for me choosing this building is because, its a building all by it self nice and quiet where no one can bother you.



Cubic Houses, Netherlands
1.This house was built by Piet Blom
2.The houses where built in 1984
3.The house is located Overblaak 70, 3011 MH Rotterdam
4.The houses are museums and they up for seeing.
5.It doesn't say how much it cost.
6.They decided they wanted to make this building because they have traveled around the world and had seen building and wanted to make there own.
7.The reason i wanted to pick this buliding is because it had a interesting name to it.

Happy Akins Buliding

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2009 in review

BESt SONG- My favorite song for 2009 is Bad romance by lady GaGA . She is very creative singer, she has different style. Im slways jammin out to this song in my car...















BEst MOvie- i picked NEW MOOn for best movie, because the movie is very good. i really like twlight too. i cant wait to see eclipse and breaking dawn.
















BEst NEWs- i choose Obama as the best news, because he is our first black president. he is very successful and knows what he is doing. he is a happy and proud to be our president.
















Best PHoto- i choose this photo to be my best picture because in th photo there are people on the wires trying to save there lifes because it is flooded about 6 ft.

My First Print

1. In this photo the people are at sharp focus.
a)The people are in focus and the computers are not and the table is really white.
b)The reason the computers are not in focus is because the blurry and like half white and half black and the reason the table is not in focus is because there really white and you cant see them.
2.There is good contrast in the people and the keyboards.
3.this photo has some leading line and it kind of follows the rules, the photo does fill the frame.My photo does not have any action.
a) My photo has leading lines and i guess view point.
b) it doesn't have framing and the rest of them.
4.no my photo does not have yellowing, and there are no spots only white ones.
5.i don not see any print rings or spots.
6.Yes everything is stored in my folder.

Manipulation and ethics

a. The story of the website is about manipulation and ethics that are in the journalism community. The website explains how digitally changing you pictures to another product is not ethical. The page gives example of journalist that have done this and the consequences are the loss of job and their credibility. The website also infers that the common ethical rule is not to lie because you are making a distrusting relationship between you and the reader.
b. This type of enhancing is unethical because the pictures are telling a lie and not the truth they are basically hiding it. Also putting things that never happened or altering with other objects in the picture is not ethical for the same reason that you are taking someone else's work or lying to your readers. By looking at the photographs this is unethical because most of the things that were edited never happened they were just selfish to give credit to someone or attract viewers. This is not ethical because through this a photographer is conveying false messages and the articles are supposed to tell you the truth. The photograph of Clinton and Fidel Castro for example it is false because like it says in the caption it never happened.

American soldier

2

• A. The most powerful photograph in the slide show is the image of the little girl herding he sheep. The reason this image is powerful is because it shows the poverty the country is going through. Not only that but the image of the little girl makes it powerful because in our country a girl at that age would be in school.

• B. The sequence of photographs that are more powerful are (in country) because they capture what the country look like and what the soldiers do in their time. The reason it is powerful is because they got more meaning than just the other ones where he is at home.

• C. The images work together by displaying images of the daily life before, after and during the time he is in Iraq this help create a story because they paint a picture off what he felt like and created other perceptions.

3

• A. The verbs in the pictures are present verbs like if it is actually happening right now.

• B. The captions explain the photograph more vividly thus making it easier to make a story behind the pictures.

4

• A. Ian flinches at the though of having his shot which is one of the requirement before going to Iraq.

Ian tires to keep the tower of wood blocks balanced in order to beat his partner.
Ian and his girlfriend discuss about where to put the other furniture in their new apartment.
5.

• a.By making a video and actually having the main subject of the picture telling what is happening enhances the image because now it has a better credibility.

• b. The videos are better than images in the way you can put music or words which create a better way for people to understand what is happening in the images. Like the first video the subjects of the photograph tell what is happening or how they felt making a better understanding of the photograph itself.

• c. Images are better than videos in the fact that they let the viewer imagine what is happening it lets them have an open mind and appreciate more detail. The picture of him sweeping in the halls for example you look at his expression of the face see what around him and make and assumption of why he is there instead of some telling you what is happening you use your imagination.