What is Community Service Photojournalism

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What is Community Service Photojournalism?

• Draws attention to problems in community
• Essential Goal Focus on change compelling
  visuals have impact on viewers
• Evokes immediate emotional response
• Visual mode of communication
• More appealing than advertising because photos
  are not manipulated and reveal real people

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Connecting with Under-Covered Communities (What
is my purpose?)

• What to do
• Illuminate lives of the virtually invisible
• Give voice to the voiceless, and hold powerful
  responsible
• Example Manny Crisostomeo, The Sacramento Bee
  Leftover People
• How to do it
• Build connections in diverse areas
• Keep an open mind
• Know what is going on in community

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• THREE KEY ELEMENTS OF A WINNING PHOTO
• Content, composition, and lighting.
• Good photos move you in some way. (make you sad,
  happy, excited )
• Good photos send a message
• By using WOW factor, photographers have to make
  photo jump out of the page.
• Photos should stay with the person after they
  have seen it

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Photo Types

• Informationalvisual record of a person, place,
  or event
• Passivepictures of people whose main purpose is
  to be photographed
• Active pictures real people involved in real,
  occurring events

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The Future of Journalism

• Hype and promotion
• Audience interaction
• Integration of sound, audio, and text

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Part oneFive Main PointsBrechen
Handling Horrible Images

• 1. Purpose/ Process/ Presentation
• 2. Ethical Considerations
• Veracity/Accuracy
• Value to story
• Impact on audience
• 3. Maintain journalistic integrity- no
  alterations in photographs
• 4. The need to maximize truth telling
• Act independently when making ethical
  considerations ( Do not get mixed up in the
  emotions of the photograph keep it non-bias)

5. Maximize journalistic responsibility while
minimizing harm!
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I wish I was as pretty as those girls, Rachel
said.
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Section 2 MAKING A STORYBOAARD
Multimedia Storytelling

• Who, What, When, Where, Why?
• What media do you want to use?
• Make a rough sketch

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Section 4 Editing for the Web
Multimedia Storytelling

• Video
• Audio
• Still Photos
• Graphics
• Text

SHORT and SWEET
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Traumatic Stress Interview

• Go over house, knock on door, ask for interview
• Call home ask for interview
• Avoid banal questions
• Journalists usually endure Compassion Stress
• helping or wanting to help a trauma victim