Sample Release Forms

Here are a few sample release forms I was able to locate.

1. Video Release Form: Click Here
2. Interview Release Forms: Click Here
3. Form 2 Interview Release Form: Click Here

Hope these are helpful to you all..

Photo Tips: Review

To become better with using your camera and taking great photographs, you must start by taking pictures start carrying you camera around and whenever, you are given an opportunity to get in a public area start snapping away.
This will allow you to practice. Although most camera's have great auto settings, there is nothing better then taking off (or turning off) the auto setting function and start to take real creative photographs.
Learn the types of lighting you can use. Research "rule of thirds", this will help you understand the importance of placement in your image. Shoot portrait and landscape images as to have a mix variety of pictures to select from. This will help you have the type of image you might need that will fit the box size of the article or magazine you plan to use the image for.
Also do not be afraid of cropping your image if needed. This will allow you to take off any content that might be distracting to the main focus of your image. These are a few tips to consider whenever you are taking pictures.

Have any you would like to share? Please feel free to add your comment and spread the knowledge.
Thanks.



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Journalism Vocabulary Words

A few words that might be helpful to understand when writing.

Determinate:

• Having exact and discernible limits or form.
• Having the main axis ending in a flower bud and therefore no longer extending in length, as in a cyme.

Relevant:

• Closely connected or appropriate to the matter at hand

Complacency:

• A feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements

Subsuming:

• Include or absorb (something) in something else

Assailed:

• Make a concerted or violent attack on

 

reticent:

• Not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily

Sovereign:

• Possessing supreme or ultimate power
• A supreme ruler

Empowered:

• Give (someone) the authority or power to do something

 

Class Notes..

Handout: How to Structure a News Story

Their are several ways to structure a story. However, the most popular ones in regards to website writing are inverted pyramid, chronological, narrative, and thematic. These work well as they give the most eye catching portion of the story being told at the beginning of the story. By using the Inverted Pyramid, this will allow your online reader who is surfing the web to want to stop and read the article.

Unlike regular newspaper readers, online surfers, only stay on a page for a brief moment unless something catches their attention and forces them to stop and want to know more.





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Where to find a Story

Some reference websites for you to search to find stories are:

1. news.bbc.co.uk
2. westyorkshire.police.uk
3. nasa.gov/news/releases/archives/index.html

These are a few website references that where posted in the Multimedia Journalism book by Andy Bull

Although these are UK websites that you can refer to, you can also go to your favorite news sites and pull their RSS Feeds to keep informed of what is going on in the world. Connecting to the RSS Feed will allow you to always be up-to-date on the latest news in the topic of your choice.



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Targeting Audience

It is important to know who your target audience is. This will allow you to give them news that will appeal to there interest. This will help you understand there needs and what is really important to them and what they need to know about what is going on or what will happen.

Once you have this type of understanding it will be much easier for you to come up with an idea that will appeal to your audience.



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Zocalo Video: What Does Power Mean in the Digital Age?

Power has changed from what we are accustom to. Before you can say, the people that threatened and made you do stuff had power over you. There is also the Payment power. This can be an example of your parents when they give you cash for you to get things that you want. However, both of these methods give example of a person that effects your decisions or needs. But in the digital forum or better yet called cyberspace, it is hard to know who is the one harming you.

Although technology how allowed us to evolve and make it easier to communicate with others that might live faraway. We are relying on technology and the internet to store all our information. This has also allowed people like hackers, terrorist, or any organize group to attack without ever being known. They have the ability to hide miles away and still do harm to us right in our backyard. We give them access to our personal information and anything that they might be able to search and find to use as they please.

Although technology is the way of the future, we must be always ready for the backlash that it can carry.




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Website Video: News or Not News

Although some might say that reporting without judging is what you need to be a reporter, sometimes you need to make a stand. I for one, am glad that the reporter did not talk about someone that has no real importance to us. I myself will not even mention that persons name as it will help her in name searches or google results. Let's just call her "I'm so hot". Hope this will give an idea of the person the report decided to make a stand on, and not do the report on.

I believe, that for journalist, sometimes knowing that their are more important things to talk about, we have to settle with interviewing or talking about people that just really are not important to the world.




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Who's The Audience?

You need to be able to report news that will appeal to your audience. Your audience might be local, national, international, etc.. You must know your audience to be able to relate and give them a story they will be interested in. this will help your reader understand what you are trying to explain, and also will give you a better understanding of what they will like to know about a topic or article.






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What Is Reporting

Reporting is finding the answers to questions, but not just any questions, you must know the right questions that need to be asked in order to get the good complete story out of the person you are interviewing.

As a helpful tip, you must always try and answer the following questions when writing a story.

1. Who? Is it about
2. What? Is it about
3. When? Did it happen
4. Where? did this take place
5. Why? did this happen
6. How? did this occur.

By attempting to answer these "W's" is what will make your story a great one. This will allow you to start structuring and see what else you need to add.



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Intro Videos Comment

After reading a few chapters in the Multimedia Journalism book, I have a since of what they mean when they say "know your target audience". Although this was required to read, I found it really hard to pay attention, yet trying to understand them. I feel that if it would have been made here in the United States, it might have caught my attention a little better.







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3rd Revision (Human Interest)

Euthanasia: Ideal or Ordeal?
Tuan and Misty, reminisces of the time they forestalled against their will upon deciding whether euthanasia was the only solution for their beloved dog

        There will come a time when your heart will tell you, its time to let your pet go. Excruciating pains, horrific surgeries, unbearable weeping... it's just not worth the selfishness of trying to maintain the life of your pet. Tuan and Misty, are two different people residing in different states, however, coincidently they both had to suffer the same decisive obstruction. When they first befriended their pet, it never came to thought for Tuan or Misty that their pet would be diagnosed with a tumor. It also never came to thought that they must eventually debate with the ethics of euthanasia. Spottie was diagnosed with a tumor in his hip and BooBoo's tumor was spreading on his leg. As they became aware of their pet's tumor, fear of losing a companionship lurked in their home and though they fought to save their pet through surgical operations, nothing could revise their pet's faith. Their companionship with their pets for more than fourteen years was the main reason forestalling their final decision: euthanasia or not, that was the question.

The word euthanasia comes from the Greek meaning of "good death." It is the act of putting to death painlessly, usually from animal suffering, esp. an incurable diseases or condition. Based on the AVMA guidelines for euthanasia, the methods are proven quick and painless. Though it may be disturbing to the observer during the process, the pet is not experiencing any pains or distress. Euthanasia was, considered an act of mercy, distinct from animal slaughter, being performed for purposes. There are two main types of euthanasia: the injection or the gas anesthetics. The injection is of pentobarbital or sodium thiopental that creates unconsciousness, which then is followed by a respiratory cardiac arrest within 30 seconds. The gas anesthetics, such as isoflurane/sevoflurane, is used as an inhalant on the pet which gives the same results of a cardiac arrest.

The frustration, uncertainty and guilt of putting their dog down, consumed their mind and thoughts. To answer the question to their debate, Spottie and BooBoo was a victim of euthanasia. There were challenges when making the decision, and it never really is an easy decision. The truth is quite doleful when they realized that euthanasia was the sole answer. Misty responded in regards to BooBoo, "His walk was limited, his eyes filled with life, while his body was out of sorts. I didn’t want BooBoo to merely exist and suffer. I had to decide when it was time. I didn’t want him to have a slow death, and yet I didn’t want him gone too soon. It was difficult."Misty was present during the euthanasia process. She mentioned that the first shot caused BooBoo to slip into a slouch position, while the second shot was the hit that made everything become still. She remembered, "I felt him pass away in my arms as his spirit ascended up and through me.  It was intense yet peaceful." In reflecting Tuan's experience, he barely wanted to speak about the occurrence. 

Through a positive perspective towards the situation, Spottie and BooBoo no longer must suffer the vengeance of their tumors. Even pets know and can feel when they no longer can endure and when it is time. Pet death, like other losses, requires that the bereaved adjust to the often severe consequences of that loss. It still holds pain to both their hearts that they had to lose their pet, however, its a beautiful relief to know that their pet no longer has to suffer the pains of the tumors. A pet will always be part of someone's family and heart. Today, Tuan and Misty still keeps their pets in remembrance to their hearts.

Video sources: 

YouTube - saying goodbye to Pluto before he gets put to sleep

YouTube - an in-home euthanasia

YouTube - pet euthanasia, the sad truth

YouTube - pet euthanasia, perspective from a professional

References: 

avma.org/issues/animal_welfare/euthanasia.pdf

mercatornet.com/articles/view/lets_put_this_pet_theory_to_sleep/

americanhumane.org/animals/stop-animal-abuse/fact-sheets/animal-shelter-euthanasia.html

pettrustlawblog.com/articles/general/pet-euthanasia/

www.peta.org/issues/default.aspx

Written and Edited by: Remedy Huynh, Research by Misty LaVina & Juan Padilla, Intro/Headlines Brainstromer: Jason Lopez

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