shooting tips

1. List and describe two things you already knew. keep your shot steady, use light

2. List and describe two things you learned for the first time.establishing shot a sequence of shots.
matched action, like behind a pitcher throwing a baseball.

opening, pumpkin

1. What is the angle in the Pumped for Pumpkins story? he has been growing them his whole life.

2. Give two examples of short sound bites from the story.172 inch pumpkin, how it grows

3. Give an example of sequenced shots.
the big pumpkin to the small one

SKY DIVE

1. What is the role of the reporter's seques in this story?
connecting storys and interviews
2. Why do you think she did not include a stand-up in the story?
story should only be focused on women who almost died
3. What is the biggest surprise in the story?
that she lived and was 2 weeks preagnet
4. How does the story end with hope?
she had a normal healty child

steve jobs

steve jobs was a co-founder or apple inc. steve jobs dies last night of Pancreatic cancer. he was active from 1974- 2011. he is worth 8.3 billion dollars. steve jobs change many of our lives with inventions like ipod touch and things such as the iphone. he made our lifes easier and more convinent he will be rembered as inventor who change lifes.

opening activity

SD card:Inside battery cover and push it in
Power Button:under the screen
Record button:under the zoom button on the back of the camera
Zoom Button:on back of camera(rectangel button)
Play back button:On the side of the screen(the middle of the three)
How do you enter menu items:right of joy stick (half circle button)
What are some menu features:highlight bar

opening activity

wide shot: gives the over all feeling of the scene
Medium: shotless setting shot more deatail
Tight : close up

Schweddy Balls

Ben and Jerry's new flavor of ice cream.

the consumers of the ice cream

unusualness

You would want to shoot a view of  the  people eating ice cream

winter boys

1. Where is the reporter's stand-up? in the middle
2.Where does Bob Dotson say is the best place to put a stand-up and WHY? the middle
3.How many key main points does Bob Dotson say should be in the Middle of the story? 1
4. What are the key main points of "The Boys of Winter"?
old time baseball   

The Twist in the Fed's Stimulus Package:Banks

most people dont belive that the internet helps the economy.  and most people think the fed reserve is bad.

Kia Optima MPG

The new Kia optima hybrid is said to get 55-65 mpg on the highway.  as It was being tested it broke a Guinness book of world records record.  It is a timeliness criteria.

Jonesboro shootings

A school shooting occurred in jonesboro Arkansas.  Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden 11 shot there classmates and teachers.  They did it because they were raised around guns and had a violent background.  I would use the teachers angle and the surviving students angle.

Manny Ramirez out of jail after battery charge

Manny Ramirez went to jail for battery charges.He got released on a $2,500 bail.

I think that this a interesting article. I think that these charges are real.

Human interest, unusual

Do boys and girls learn better separately?

I read this article and i think it is very good. I think that people learn better when they are with 1 single sex in the room. No mixed genders. Some school that have tried this say it dies out quick like a school in edina. When genders are seperated there is no sxual discrimination.

Opening Activity

I think this article was very intersesting . It gave alot of facts and details about some games. Its shows the amount of people that play they each month. So in all it was a good article to read if you like to play games on facebook

9/11

I watch a documentry on 9/11 last night. The documentry was on fire squad 1 who was first on the seen. There was never before seen video of them in the building as the 2nd tower went down. The showed the events as they happened on tape and they showed the peoples emotions. They also showed the new monument that has gone up since that day.

Bomb Threats

This weeknd being the Sept. 11 anniversary new york city is on high alert. The NYPD has steeped up for more security. They are on top alert to watch and guard bridges and tunnels since those are targets. There has been a threat this year for this sunday Sep 11th. The pentagon says dont be worried there has been no real threat. When others have said there have been.

Shorter stories

Tom disking is from New York city. Tom has many things he likes to do. Toms Once had a hamster named Gibbles.

Tom is a city kid that has many hobbies including fashion

City kid life style

Confused Moose

A Moose was found " drunk" in a tree the Moose was intoxicated by fermented apples. The Moose was released out of the tree thanks to police officers that cut the branches off the trees. Local neighbors say that they saw the moose wondering around for day before.






Found on kstp.com
By: Leslie Rolander

Friend interview

Today i interviewed Tom Diskin. Tom is from New York city which is also know as the big apple. I learned that when tom was 5 years old he got a dwarf hamster named gibbles. Gibbles was a black and white hamster. But one day gibbles got away when tom took him out of the cage. Gibbles was never seen after that day. Toms secret passion is working on old cars that are broken. tom is double jointed in his fingers. Toms is also big into fashion and trys to look his best for every occasion.