Overview Like great pieces of art, great photojournalism shots are well composed. The photographer carefully places the elements of a photo within a frame in order to tell a story in the most visually powerful way possible.
Unlike art, the content of photojournalism is not, for the most part, controlled by the photographer.This was never more true than during the attacks of September 11, 2001. This has been called one of the most photographed events in history. Most of you weren't even born when this event happened, but it is still a very important moment in the collective memory of most Americans.
Imagine being a photojournalist on that day, running into this disaster while most people are running away. In the midst of this misery and chaos, it's a photojournalists job to capture the the human side of the story in an orderly and effective way.
Assignment
You will learn about some composition techniques and find examples of how photojournalists applied them to the chaos of 9/11.
First - Everyone must read about the the rules of "Simplicity, The Rule of Thirds, Lines, Balance, Framing, and Avoiding Mergers" on the following web site:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/192HfRA92dE7FSuc3UNKx8eswGOvWk4loZv2jcsrTE8M/edit?usp=sharing
Next- Go to the four websites below, and find excellent examples of photos shot on 9/11 that follow each of the rules. When you find one that you think fits the Composition rule, save it into your AISD Google Drive. I would suggest you make a new folder called Composition 9/11 inside the folder you made for my class.
On your Google Site, create a new subpage called Composition 9/11 and share one example of each of the six techniques from the composition web site, that you saved into your Google Drive
Make sure to title each photo with a text box that tells me the name of the technique.
For example- Post a photo with "Framing" as the title. You will need to do a post for each of the composition techniques. Which means you should have SIX photos on your page today, labelled correctly.
Here are the websites - they should be clickable links, if not copy and paste then into a new browser window.
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/911-attacks-photos-aftermath/13/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/09/pictures/110908-about-911-september-9-11-twin-world-trade-center-towers-indelible/
https://time.com/3449480/911-the-photographs-that-moved-them-most/
http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2013/09/11/iconic-911-photos.html
(for the Daily Beast website above, there are 25 pictures make sure you find the clickable link labelled NEXT and look at all 25 photos.)
It may be hard to get these images to right-click and save to your folder on the server. If you want, you are welcome to do a google search for specific images and save those images. The important thing is that you are picking photos that show me you understand the six composition rules and getting them onto your Google Site.
When you have found 6 photos for each of the composition "rules" we looked at today, make sure you have them labeled and then push Publish. Don't forget you have to push that button TWICE.
EXTRA CREDIT
When your done - you might be interested to read this story - if you post your reactions (meaning you create a new Google Site subpage called Falling Man extra credit and you write at least TWO paragraphs (250 words minimum and I will be checking this one, if you need a word count, write your paragraphs in a google doc and then copy and paste it onto your Google Site subpage), responding to what you read and saw, I will give you extra credit points. This is graphic and not the easiest thing to read, so if you are squeamish, you might want to skip this one. Once you click the link, hit continue and it should redirect you to the website.
https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/the-falling-man-story-behind-the-most-powerful-image-of-911/news-story/33c7bd71bf1de7f158c02e372c3244c1
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mggbey/long-fall-the-most-famous-9-11-photo-is-still-suspended
When your done - you might be interested to read this story - if you post your reactions (meaning you create a new Google Site subpage called Falling Man extra credit and you write at least TWO paragraphs (250 words minimum and I will be checking this one, if you need a word count, write your paragraphs in a google doc and then copy and paste it onto your Google Site subpage), responding to what you read and saw, I will give you extra credit points. This is graphic and not the easiest thing to read, so if you are squeamish, you might want to skip this one. Once you click the link, hit continue and it should redirect you to the website.
https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/the-falling-man-story-behind-the-most-powerful-image-of-911/news-story/33c7bd71bf1de7f158c02e372c3244c1
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mggbey/long-fall-the-most-famous-9-11-photo-is-still-suspended
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