Monday, February 18, 2008

Photo Essay Planning

To help you plan your photo essay, check out at least two of the photo essays on the links below. Answer the questions on your handout in a few paragraphs in a comment on the Blog. Then, we can get ideas from each other. Think of an idea for an essay that will be entertaining,enlightening, and important to your reader and to you.

Time Photo Essays: http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/index.html

Human Right's Watch Photo Essays: http://www.hrw.org/doc/?t=photoessays

20 comments:

Anonymous said...

A massive tornado hits Arkansas Tennesse,and Kentucky,people are left without a home to go to. They dig throw their crushed belongings. People were searching fo dead bodies or survivors.

kyshawn said...

giants win the super bowl
the entertainment super bowl
that a underfeated team can lose to a not so good team.
how they showed the wining team touhdown. i didn't like how they showed the score. my photo essay will be about the4 colts season. they showed pictures and captions. how the colts went and the highlights and how many games they won. there wining touchdowns and runing and passing gain.

armando "armandillo" morfin said...

i read about iraqi war surge and hilter ww2 nazi party. both photo have the usa in war. history about war and terro. hiler is 75 yrs ago and iraqi war this year. iraqi war. is a photo with detail. to make people happy. problems in iraq today. no my don't compare with the war.

kyshawn said...

a photo essay is when they show pictures and captions. to show how that stuff went down. how our photo essay will be how teachers do projects. what kind of projects and what kind of thing they doing on there project.

Jalique said...

The people in the tornado of Arkansas Tennesse might be hurt and have no place to go, and can't find shelter of any kind.

Anonymous said...

A phto essay is an article about a picture you have seen. The purpose is to tell about the photo. The pupose of my essay is to tell you about the tornado. The pictures of the tornado anfd people going throw their demolished things, I would take pictures of these things.

armando "armandillo" morfin said...

from aramndo my esay is about pact scores in tms

Inga said...

The two photo essays that i read was THE TOP FASHOINS IN NEW YORK, and THE HURRICANE IN ARKANSIS. I had saw the fashoins that most people are wearing, and how the hurricane effected and hurted people. I liked the fashions but i don't think it is something that i would wear, and i had saw all the people that was hurt and there houses that got messes up and everything. I did't like some of the clothese that they were wearing and how they hair was fixed. I would write about how they got hurt and give really good details about how it was like after the hurricane had hit the town. And about the fashoin show i would write aboout what they were wearing adn about the hairstyles, and the shoes and dress.A photo Essay tells a story or a point. To tell a story of what happened without useing words. Mine would be about what happeneds in the hallwat after the bell rings for the next class. The pics we about thould be hallway and how people act and just let loose in the hallway
-Jamedra

caffeinefree12 said...

I'm going to do my essay on 6th grade hallway behavior.

Haley said...

About Defend America.
How they suffered.
Because I saw women fighting in war too.
How they did look after the war.
How fun the teachers have with there students.
A bunch of pictures and about a centural subject.
Insted of a bounch of words you use pictures.
To help students the good side of teachers.
Of teachers having fun in there class.

Inga said...

Fashion for horror movies.ModeLs representing designs.
-Maria

Unknown said...

The Giants win the super bowl a surprising win against the New England Patrionts. The Patriots undeafeated record comes to a end on the most important game of the season. Girls from Texas show entertainment for the superbowl 42. They do this at half time.

Unknown said...

I read the photo essays about the superbowl 42 and the super entertainment. What I liked about the essays is that they both talk about super bowl 42. What I didn't like about the two essays is that they both don't show enough details. If I would write a photo essay I would write about how the people in iss feel while they are in there. A photo essay is an essay that uses mostly pictures but a little bit of words. The purpose of the photo essay I'm going to do is how people feel in Iss. My pictures would show mad faces of people in Iss

desmond said...

the two photos i read were michael jordans shoes and super bowl.
i learned that air forces were jordans and the giants won the super
i didnt like that the giants won
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i think a photo essay is a caption for photos and what the pictures are about.
the purpose is to learn new stuff
what people do in PE
i think some of the pictures could be what they are doing at the time im taking pictures such as basketball kickball football and baseball.

Jessica said...

A disasterous tornado came in Atkins,Arkansa and the biggest primary election happens. I learned that they are looking for survivors or any dead bodies. I learned from the primary election of who is winning. I liked that they informed us about the things that happened and they used interesting facts.I didn't like that they weren't real specific. I would write about what happens in the classroom.

Unknown said...

a photoessay is a photo that you write about tell what the picture looks like to you.

it can explain what what the photo is about.

the perpose of my essay is to tell what i think about the photo.

Unknown said...

How jordan had all these shoes that he used to wear and how all the people that play on tv wore all the old jordan that have jordan jersesy number on the shoe that was fresh by the dude that had million of shoes in his room.
This is why I like jordan photo.

Inga said...

The one with the gray drese.
I lreaned that there are a iot of dreses.
I like all the stuff it had.
It will be about Tanglewood middlescool"s offies
Something that has pictuers.
Anything.
Anything.

Unknown said...

I read "King Penguins at Risk" and "Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show." I learned a lot about what photo essays are and how to make them. I learned that it is not a real essay with paragraphs.
I learned that the population of the king penguins is stable now, but even just a little rise in the temperature could have a very destructive effect. On the penguin essay, I like that the author showed a variety of pictures from a baby to a large gathering. I don't like that the author showed the penguins in captivity. The problem will only affect penguins in the wild.
I learned that a beagle named Uno won the dog show's best honor. On the dog essay, I liked that the author showed the backstage, the stage, and the dogs preparing. I don't like that the author didn't show all the judges. I wish the author had shown a lot of other dog breeds.
If I were going to write a photo essay, I would do it on an animal. I love animals. I would probably do it on a koala.
A photo essay is not a regular essay with lots of paragraphs. People know what you are talking about through the pictures you show them. The readers also know what you are talking about through the brief description for each picture.
A photo essay shows you the reality of what the author is talking about without the reader having to imagine. The reader doesn't have to question the topic the author is talking about, because it is right in front of their faces. The reader just doesn't have to go by the description the author is giving them .
If I did a photo essay on koalas, I would do it because I wanted people to see how adorable and cute koalas are. I would want them to actually see how the koala survives without me telling them. The reader wouldn't have to imagine the koala . The reader would just see it.
If I were to do a photo essay on koalas, I would get pictures of koalas eating, sleeping, with their babies, the different stages of development, a male koala, a female koala, and predators of koalas. This would show people the real thing.

brittany said...

I like the photo of the girl dancing with the hulu hoop on the ice.She seems happy and freely to be dancing and really enjoys it. It looks like she has been dancing for years and is really good at it.