The Big Day

This video is about a man rushing to a wedding, but failing to get there on time. The women he was probably going to try to stop the wedding for eventually got married, and he was too late to sweep her off her feet or something.

Who - A bride, groom, and jealous lover
What - a wedding
Where - the countryside
When - modern
Why - the jealous lover was too late to the wedding
How - he was caught up in traffic

Student of the Month Story

Who - Skyler Bendt
What - Student Of The Month
Where - James Bowie High School
When - April, 2015
Why/How - Skyler's outstanding behavior in class

      Skyler Bendt, a freshman at James Bowie High School, has been elected as student of the month this April. She has succeeded outstanding levels of leadership and exemplary behavior in all of her classes.
      Skyler has made all A's, no absences, and is in every club available to freshman. So far, she's starting off her career with a great boost. 2015 is going to a big year for her, especially as student of the month in the last six weeks.
      The fifteen year old was named  Student Of the Month by the Bowie Administration on April 2nd, to ensure it was no joke. "She has every quality of a strong leader. She helps other maintain themselves whilst maintaining herself," Said the photojournalism teacher Mr. Michael Reeves, shortly after Bendt was elected.
      Bendt intend on using her authority to make the school a better place for all the students at JBHS, both upper and underclassmen. "I hope to raise a lot more money for the school," Says Bendt, while at work during her free off period. "We have a very tight budget, and some departments need more supplies, such as maths needing rulers and sciences needing lab supplies."( Skyler Bendt, April 21st, 2015)
      With a lot of friends and a lot of teacher acquaintances, Skyler's ambitions may not be too hard to reach. "She's a smart young girl," Said Mr. Kane, principal of the school. "She'll go far."

Nut Graf

A "Nut Graf", or Nutshell Paragraph, is often the third or fourth paragraph of a news story that hold the main news value. It's the "heart of a story", one could say. It doesn't list specific details, but it holds the basic values of the stories like Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How.

Readers say it's the most useful part of the composition, because it gives the most important part of the story to them in just a quick paragraph.

Inverted Pyramid

Architecture Shoot

Angles / Shapes

Details

Light

Patterns

Surroundings

My First Interview

20 Questions Student of the month 

1. How does it feel to be student of the month? Great!
2. How do you think you succeeded to become SOTM? I worked so hard to keep my grades up.
3. Do you obtain any new authorities as SOTM? I got a free off period!
4. If so, what will you try to enact at school? I'm going to use the time to study more.
5. What sort of special privileges did you obtain? I get to use the printers for free.
6. Do you have any idea who will be the nest SOTM? Nope!
7. Will you look back to this as an accomplishment? Yep!
8. Was it a surprise to be named SOTM, or were you expecting it? Total surprise!
9. On a scale of 1-10, how big on an honor is it? 11! 
10.  What is the biggest perk of being SOTM? I became close with the teachers.
11. Do you get to use the teacher’s lounge as SOTM, or even printers? Mhm!
12. How did you work up to becoming SOTM? I aced every test. 
13. Does it feel any different coming to school now that the teachers look you highly upon? Yes
14. How many students were you going against in the run? 5
15. Is there any tough competition to be the best at school? Yes
16. Who do you think wanted you to be SOTM the most? Mr. Reeves.
17.  Which class do you excel the most at? Algebra
18.  Will you use your “perks” to help other students? Yes
19.  Will you help the teachers during your free time if you get any? Yes
20.  How did you react at first? I felt like a queen!

School Uniforms

School Board enforcing uniforms:

1.
      I could Interview a student, a member of the student board, and a principal of any school in the district.

2.

• "What caused the policy to come to light?"
• "How do you think the students will react?"
• "Do you believe this will have a positive or negative effect on the district?"
• "How will the uniforms be distributed?"
• "Do you think there is anything else that should be enforced in the dress code?"
• "How does this effect any personal ethics?"
• "Will this bring a more 'professional' look to the district?"
• "Why was this policy thought of in the first place?"
• "Some students think of this as an act of discipline. Why do you think this is?"
• "What times are students required to wear these uniforms?"
• "What is you personal opinion on this policy?"
• "Did the students get any say in the enforcement of their clothing?"
• "Do you think the school board would agree to let a boy wear a girls uniform, or vice versa, if they so please?"
• "Will there be gender based uniforms?"
• "How formal will the uniforms be compared to casual clothing?"
• "Can school administrations veto the rules to their wish if they so please?"
• "How much leeway is given in this policy?"
• "Do you believe students should be given more than 1 uniform each?"
• "Is the female dress code as strict as it is in public schools?"
• "Where on campus can a student be found not wearing a uniform?"

Architecture Preview 2

Casa Milà 

Lights
Here the Casa Milà is shown in the evening with the display lights as well as a sunset igniting the rock it is built with. It makes the statues on the top look as if they are on fire, and the interior looks very warm and comfortable. 

Patterns
Here, the architect made a pattern building upwards to create a mind boggling illusion as you look up, like a telescope to the sky. Each floor looks almost identical.

Surroundings
Here he have the whole view of the Casa Milà in Barcelona, Spain, on the corner of the street it is located on.  You can clearly see the hundreds of tourists coming to see the gargantuan piece. 

Details
This is one of the many unique pieces atop the house, showing 13 faces of some serpent like creatures. Many more sculptures lay atop the huge house. 

Angles & Shapes
Here, a photographer captures the whimsical shapes that Antoni Gaudí created for the house. As far as I know, none of the other buildings we were given to choose from looked as exuberant as this.  

iPhone Photos

1. My favorite photo was the bubbles under the ice, catered with the reflection of the glacier on the ice above.
2. I am definitely surprised some of these were taken on a phone, I didn't know the camera had that many pixels.
3. I think the apps some of the photographers may have used (i.e., PicsArt, Afterlight, etc.), could have definitely effected the outcome of the photo. the image could have been heavily impacted and distorted without us knowing.
4. I should shoot in more natural lighting, and I should never zoom in.

Architecture Preview

El Guggenheim de Bilbao
The Architect of the Guggenheim is Frank Gehry
It was finished in late 1997
It is located in Bilbao, Spain
It is a public museum
The guggenheim took about $89,000,000 USD to complete
The Basque government suggested that a museum be built
I chose this building because it had the most unique design out of all of the choices to me.

Kunsthaus Graz
The Architect of this cubist piece is Peter Cook. It was finished in 2003.  It is located in Graz, Austria. It is a public museum open to all visitors. There is no known information on the cost of the project. It was built as the cultural capital of Europe for 2003, and it commemorates 1960's modernist style artwork. I chose this pice because it stood out to me as a rather odd building. 

Casa Milà
The Casa Milà, more commonly referred to as La Pedrera, is located in Barcelona, Spain, and was built by the architect Antoni Gaudí between 1906 and 1910. Ever since 1984, it has been a World Heritage Site, but before, was private property to the Milà family. The entire mansion cost about 100,000 Pesetas. The building was created to that Pere Milà could show off his wealth flamboyantly to all of barcelona, with his new wife, a wealthy widow of an Indiano. I chose this building because the architecture is just purely beautiful. Gaudí was a very very talented architect and he finished his career with this building.

Casa do Penédo
The architect of the stone house is to this day unknown, ever since it was built in 1974.
It is located in Guimarães, Portugal.You can visit it, but it is owned by a man and his family.  there is no information on the construction of the house, but it was created as a rural escape for the family in the mid 70's. I chose this building because it reminded me of a modern day flinstones.

Norddeutsche Landesbank am Friedrichswall
The architect of this amazing building is Günter Behnisch. He had finished this building with his famous team in 2002, beginning in 1997. This Landesbank is located in Hannover, Germany. It is a corporate building that you can definitely visit, but you'd stick out like a sore thumb if you went inside and took photos like a tourist.  The project's cost has not been published publicly. I chose this building because even though Nord LB has existed over 200 years, they have a very modern and eccentric maze like building. 

Action Photos