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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