WRKxFMLY celebration & catch-up day. Posted 2/13 - no grade assigned

 Mr. Winter will be here to celebrate today so we are going to basically have a free day. I will say that if you are behind in my class, I am still working on grades and will submit them before the end of the day. This is your last chance to turn in work if you want to avoid a progress report. I will be visiting a few of you.

WRKxFMLY Wrap-up

Here is a link to the winners!!

Winning Images from DM

Caption writing and questions. Assigned 2/11, due 2/13 - Minor

Choice Sheets

Reminder here: Remember if you signed up to take Newspaper/Graphic Design and Illustration, I need an application from you. This is really to help me make sure you show up on my choice sheets if you want to be in the program. I am always happy to talk to you about this if you have questions.

Now to today's assignment:

SLO Practice

Soon you will be taking an SLO test about caption and headline writing and I wanted to review the items you will need to know for this test. All of these things have been covered in the past few months, so it's just a reminder. When you have finished this task for today, please make sure you are caught up on everything else. 

First: The reasons we would cover an event in the newspaper, there are seven of them, you just need to remember these as best you can:

Timeliness - the newness of the facts. 
Proximity – the nearness of a given event to your place of publication. 
Prominence – the “newsworthiness” of an individual, organization or place
Impact – the effect or consequence of an event on the audience. 
Conflict – the meeting of two or more opposing forces. These forces can be physical, emotional or philosophical.  
Human Interest – the drama the surrounds people involved in an emotional struggle.
Novelty – the attraction people have to unusual things and events. 

Second: Captions - there are some questions about these ideas AND you will need to actually write a caption.

Remember captions are always two sentences.

The first sentence is written to explain the action happening in the photo. It is written in present tense as though the action was going on in front of you. Use strong action verbs where possible.  The first sentence should try to answer the 5 Ws and 1 H (who, what, where, when, why and how).

The second sentence is written to provide background information not available or understood by simply looking at the photo. It is written in past tense because the information is typically based on events that happened in the past.

Present tense action verbs describe the moment captured in the image as if it is happening now, is more engaging for the audience to read, and it helps the reader to understand the action in the image.

Captions should identify by name when there are three or fewer people identifiable in the photo.

Do not use words like "pictured here", "in this photo", or "here you see" as these are assumed. Start with a name, a grade, or an identification method.

Third: Headlines, these are just questions, you will not have to write a headline

Headlines are written in a similar fashion as a complete sentence and have both a subject and a verb.

Headlines do NOT include ending punctuation like a period, an exclamation point or question mark.

Avoid using "to be" verbs like is and are, was and were. These are removed because the tend to make longer headlines which are difficult because of space requirements.

Use full names if possible in headlines and do not use pronouns like he or she.

Here are some practice examples in each of the three categories. We will go over the answers together before you take the actual test. Please create a new Google Site Subpage called SLO practice and answer these questions.

1. In the following, which news value is most clearly represented in the caption below?

Caption: Courtney Suel (left) and Lesia Bridges navigate a flooded Aquarena Springs Drive in San Marcos on Tuesday. One gauge in the city recorded nearly seven inches of rain.

A. Conflict
B. Human Interest
C. Impact
D. Proximity

2. In the following, which news value is most clearly represented in the caption below?

Caption: Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday in Nogales, Ariz: "This is a new era. This is the Trump era. The lawlessness, the abdication of the duty to enforce our immigration laws....are over."

A. Prominence
B. Human Interest
C. Impact
D.Proximity

3. Which of the following is an example of a present tense action verb?

A. painted
B. gets painted
C. paints
D. getting paint

4. What is the most wrong with the following headline?

Headline: Big win

A. The date and the place
B. The background information
C. The lack of a verb
D. The lack of a subject

5. What information is missing from the first sentence of this caption:

Caption: On Wednesday, March 13 senior Sarah Smith captures the flag.

A. The date
B. The location
C. The name of the subject
D. A present tense verb

6. What information is missing from the second sentence of this caption:

Caption: On Wednesday, March 13 senior Sarah Smith captures the flag in the annual senior games event held at Bowie High School. Smith lives at 10405 Johnston St. in Austin.

A. The date of the event
B. A present tense verb
C. Background information about the senior games
D. The name of the subject

Caption Writing:

Please write a correct 2 sentence caption for the following photo - remember that you get to make up all the information, but you still need to follow the correct format as described above:

Photograph: Chris Wattie/Reuters

News Values. Assigned 2/9, due 2/11 - Minor

 We are going to begin our exploration of journalistic writing and style  by examining the reasons a publication might choose to cover an event. Some experts have come up with a variety of reasons for this and from my experience, based on those experts research, I have come up with seven solid reasons to cover a story. Today we are going to learn about those seven, and to completely understand them, I want you to be able to pick out some stories to prove to me that you understand each reason.

Here are the reasons:

1. Timeliness - - the newness of the facts

2. Proximity - - the nearness of a given event to your place of publication

3. Prominence - - the "newsworthiness" of an individual, organization, or place.

4. Impact - - the effect of consequence of an event on the audience, or readers

5. Conflict - - the meeting of two or more opposing forces. These forces can be physical, emotional, or philosophical

6. Human Interest - - the drama that surrounds people involved in an emotional struggle

7. Novelty - - the attraction people have to unusual things and events

Now here is your assignment:

Find seven stories that you believe are driven primarily by one of the news values listed above. You will need to copy and paste links to the stories in your Google Site. Follow the five steps listed below.

Title this Google Site subpage: News Values

1. Pick out a story you think meets one of the news values.
2. On your new subpage - type the name of that news value
3. Write a complete sentence or two explaining why you think the article is driven by that news value.
4. Type the headline of the article
5. Include a clickable link to the article's URL. To insert a clickable link on your Google Site, in the Insert pane, you will find the EMBED function, click that and paste the link. It will automatically create a text box with the link for me to see.

I will be going over these with you later in the period to make sure we are all on the same page. 

Here are some places you can start looking for stories. You are welcome to use other sources as well if you wish.

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/index.html

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/

https://www.reuters.com/

Wall Street Journal

https://news.google.com/topstories?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en

The above link will have "Local" stories. You can also use Google News, or search for your favorite local news organization to find stories.

I recommend:

The Austin Monitor

The Austin Chronicle

The Austin-American Statesman

Any reputable news source is fine. 

When you have completed the work above, please write CORRECT two sentence captions for the following photos. 

Remember - you MUST ID with a title, first name and last name everyone in the photo if there is less than 4 people in the image. 

First sentence = what is happening in the photo. Present tense.

Second sentence = background information you cannot get from looking at the photo. Past tense.

Don't forget to write a little kicker headline of less than five words. Spell out all words under 10, use numerals for numbers over 10.

Newspaper Design #2 Turn-in Instructions. Posted 2/4 - MAJOR

When you are done:

When you have your newspaper design done, please follow the instructions listed below to turn your projects in. FOLLOW THEM SPECIFICALLY AND EXACTLY. It may look complex and it isn't simple, but if you follow them carefully you will need no help from me.

You must have your page open in InDesign (NOT photoshop)

>File>Adobe PDF presets>Smallest File Size

>Rename your magazine cover as follows: Last name_first name_Newspaper Design 2_period #

Make sure to save it in your folder ON THE DESKTOP.

>Click export (if any messages come up about outside the clipping area or anything else like that during the .pdf creation process, click okay)

After you create a .PDF at the smallest file size put that file into your Google Drive and make sure it is share so BOWIE HIGH SCHOOL can VIEW it. Then get the link, and put it on your Google Site on a new subpage called Newspaper Design #2 using the embed function. Once you complete that, open your PDF in Photoshop and make it into a PNG by SAVING AS and converting it into a .PNG. Then put that PNG file on your Google Site on the same subpage called Newspaper Design #2. Hit PUBLISH!!!

ALSO  -  I want to post this on your Google Site. To do this you have to convert the .pdf into a .PNG file. This is 25% of your grade.

1. Open Photoshop
2. Open the .pdf of your newspaper design 2 (NOT the .indd, it won't work)
3. When the .pdf converter pop-up box appears, click okay
4. >File>Save as

5. Click - ON YOUR COMPUTER
6. Change the format into .PNG - this is located near the bottom of the pop-up box
7. Click save

8. It should default to large file size, if not change it and click OK
9. If you get any other pop-up boxes, click okay 
10. Post it on your Google Site on a new subpage called Newspaper Design #2

REFLECTION

Please take the time to look closely at your Newspaper Design #2 and complete the following reflection. On your Google Site, please make a new subpage called Newspaper Design #2 Reflection and answer the following questions there:

1. How many headlines are on your page and is there one for each story?

2. How many captions are on your page and is there one for each photo?

3. Are there any big white spaces on your page, especially ones that are "trapped" between objects and not planned white space that would be along the outsides of the page?

4. Did you include a byline for every story, photo and graphic?

5. Did you put a story stop on each story?

6. Did you view your page in Preview mode? You should and take a look at what you are actually turning in.

7. Tell me two frustrations you had while trying to complete this task?

8. Tell me two things you enjoyed about completing this task?

9. Rate your page on a scale of 1-10. Compare your page to a real Dispatch page as you rate yourself. Do you think your page compares to what current page editors have created this year?

10. Rate this assignments difficulty versus other practical applications we have done i.e. magazine covers, King Pica, etc. Was this easier or harder? Explain your answers.

For those people who are moving onto Newspaper next year and will be in Dispatch staff, please write a paragraph explaining what you thought about this process and tell me if this is something you might be interested in learning more about.

Newspaper Design #2 Checklist. Posted 2/2 - No grade assigned

 Do you have the following:

1. A headline for every story
2. A caption for every photo
3. Are there any big white spaces?
4. Have you written all the headlines? Do they fill the entire space required? If not you will have to write more - make the headline fit the ENTIRE space allocated.
5. Have you used FILL TEXT to completely fill all white spaces in text boxes where stories go?
6. Do all captions have a photo by?
7. Do all stories have a byline?
8. If you used art (any .jpeg without a caption that I wrote for it), does it have an art by?
9. Are the entire stories there? Please read the story and make sure it doesn't cut off somewhere weird.
10. Did you put a story stop into place at the end of every story?
11. Did you view your page in Preview mode? You should and take a look at what you are actually turning in.

Some of the things I saw last class that I wanted to point out to you to fix/work on today:

Make sure that every headline is written fully so that it fills the entire space. Make sure those headline boxes in InDesign are made big enough to cover the entire space required.

Make sure you use FILL text to completely fill all text boxes/blocks.

Make sure you have story stops (the little colored boxes) at the end of every story.

Look and see that you can draw a box around all elements that go with the same coverage, i.e. headline, story, photo/art, caption. You should be able to draw a box around it.

Make sure that you have NOT gone outside the pink/purple lines, but also make sure that all of your objects are touching pink/purple lines.

Newspaper Design #2. Posted 1/30, due 1/4 (end of the period) - MAJOR

Last class you did Newspaper Design 1. For that assignment, you had all the pieces with the appropriate content already in place. All you had to do was move the boxes with their content into the correct place on the page. Today, we are going to make another page, but this time, you will have to not only place the boxes where you want them, you will also have to decide what content you want to appear on your page.

Your new InDesign file has a blank page, just like the last one. On the pasteboard around that blank page are a bunch of what we call TEMPLATE OBJECTS. Those objects have all the boxes you need to make your own page from scratch. To use these template objects, instead of just grabbing them and moving them around like you did for Newspaper Design #1, this time you will have to COPY and PASTE each object that you want. In the past this has been the HARDEST step for my intro students. So I am going to repeat these instructions over and over today as you work. COPY and PASTE what you want, don't grab TEMPLATE OBJECTS and move them around. Once you make a copy, you can move the copy around.

There are additional requirements and I will share those with you below.

For now, let's get the pieces you need to complete this task. Click the link below and COPY the entire folder into your folder on the DESKTOP.

NEWSPAPER DESIGN 2

Once everyone has this downloaded, we will open the files together.

Inside the file you are going to find a number of different types of files like an .Indd file, some .docx files, and lots of .jpegs. These files are the CONTENT you will need to use to create your Newspaper Page. You will find images, art, and a pair of Word Files, that have the stories and captions you will need for your page. 

Here is the kicker - you have too much content, and as the editor of this page, you will need to decide what CONTENT you want to use on your page. You have lots of choices.

The first thing you need to do is to use your knowledge of NEWS VALUES to determine which stories you want to use on your NEWS page. Then you will decide what ART/GRAPHICS/PHOTOS you want to use with those stories. Every story on your page must have some sort of visual with it. All visuals must have a credit line and all stories must  have a byline. These items are called a PACKAGE of items.

All elements in a PACKAGE, must be placed near each other in a pleasing MODULAR DESIGN.

Once you have your stories and related visual content selected, now its time to move on to InDesign to create the page.

You are welcome to use a Dispatch newspaper as a sample for your new page. You can access every Dispatch newspapers here: https://thedispatchonline.net/11845/print/print-edition-2021-2022/

I strongly recommend that you use one of the Dispatch pages to help you create this new page.

Begin by COPY and PASTING a main HEADLINE where you want to place it.

Then COPY and PASTE a story box and put it under the headline. You will have to change the size of the story box so it fits right. Just click a white circle on the bottom and make it longer.

COPY and PASTE a photo box that is the size you want (make sure to look at the photo you chose, is it wide or tall? Make the box the approximate shape as the photo you chose - in general you should only have to adjust the height....as there are template pieces in the appropriate widths). You will have to change the size of the story box so it fits right. Just click a white circle on the bottom and make it taller or shorter

I will show you basic steps before you get started. It will take a little time to go through it, but you will have plenty of time over the next few classes to complete this assignment. On the second day, I will be circulating around class to help you with your designs so they look like your sample page. I do NOT expect perfection, but I do want you to get it as close as possible to what you are using as your inspiration. I strongly recommend you use a Page 2, a Page 3, or even Page 4-5 or a sports page. Do not pick a guide page that is page 1 or 8-9 or a photo essay.

Newspaper Design #1. Assigned 1/28, due 1/30 - Minor

 Newspaper Design Project #1

Today you will use the entire period to re-create a page from The Dispatch Issue #4.

Here is a link to the file:

NEWSPAPER DESIGN #1

Once you get it downloaded into the Download Folder, you will need to move it to either your desktop, or into your folder on the desktop. It should give you the prompt to DOWNLOAD right when you open the link.

Once you have it in the proper place, open the InDesign file (it has the letters .indd at the end). When you open it, there will be an error message about missing links, you can just click OKAY. This will not impact what you are doing today. And when you are working the graphics will have a ? near them, ignore that.

You will see, if you are in Normal view mode, that there are all the parts that were used to create Entertainment page 13 in the 3rd issue of The Dispatch. There are paper versions of the paper at your desks to help you when you recreate this page. I will show you how to get into the proper view mode for this project.

Your job is simple. Move those items into the proper place as you see on Page 12. Everything should move properly into the correct space. You should not have to adjust ANYTHING. Just use the TOP arrow tool and move items into the correct spots. DO NOT CHANGE THE DIMENSIONS OF ANYTHING ON THE PAGE. Be careful and do not grab the little white dots around the borders of the items you are moving. 

In addition, when you are moving photos or art, make sure you DO NOT click the middle of the photograph, make sure you are away from the center circle that will pop up.

HINTS: if you think you made a mistake, you can always use COMMAND-Z to go back one step.

Make sure that you use ALL of the items available and that they are in the right places. Refer to the printed page to help you. There are a number of little pieces like short lines and things like that, which should be included on your page design.

Once you are done putting the puzzle together, call me over so I can take a look.

After I approve it, create a .PDF at the smallest file size and put that file into your Google Drive and make sure it is share so BOWIE HIGH SCHOOL can VIEW it. Then get the link, and put it on your Google Site on a new subpage called Newspaper Design #1 using the embed function. Once you complete that, open your PDF in Photoshop and make it into a PNG by SAVING AS and converting it into a .PNG. Then put that PNG file on your Google Site on the same subpage called Newspaper Design #1. Hit PUBLISH!!!