Workshop 4. telling stories with pictures
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In this session
• The basics of good photo-journalism
• Infographics
• Building proficiency with image based social media
• Using wordpressphoto features
Men watch the 2014 World Cup Group B soccer match between the Netherlands and Australia on a laptop, at a camel market in Daba near Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, on June 18, 2014. (Reuters/Mohamed Alhwaity)
When to use stills
• When they help you tell a story more effectively, more clearly or more easily
• Online – where long copy looks dull
• To identify the people involved in a story
• Sometimes the image is the story
Photo-journalism basics
• Learn the rule of thirds
• Shoot vertical and horizontal (landscape and portrait) versions of each picture
• Shoot action – instigate it if you have to
• Be careful about the background
<find a funny background shot to insert here>
Composition: The rule of thirds
• Imagine two horizontal lines and two vertical lines creating a grid of nine squares
• There are four intersections of four lines where you main subject should be placed
• Creative cropping can help but beware loss of resolution
• Be aware of key social media formats e.g. profile pictures
Pixels, you can’t see them but they’re there
• Q. What’s a 3 megapixel camera?• A. One that can take a picture that is
2,048 pixels by 1,536 pixels• Think resolution: Measured in pixels
per square inch (comes from column inches)
• Print is 200ppi to 300ppi for mags• Most computers display at 72ppi• Compressing a high resolution image,
reduces the file size for online use• Formats: JPG (joint photography editors
group), GIF and TIF
Data journalism and infographics
• Which? infographic: Freshers – your first term in numbers
• “Any time you get a story with dense statistical information in it, or simply a load of figures, it is worth considering whether an infographic could help you tell it” (Bull 2010)
• Make sure your data is validated and make your sources very clear
• www.piktochart.com let’s you make your own infographic quickly and easily. Watch the demo video here
Making more of images
• Captioning
• Galleries and slide shows
• Image based SNS including Instagram, Flickrand Pinterest
Create a gallery on Wordpress
Use the add media function to create a gallery in a post or page the select ‘create gallery’ from left hand options
Using Instagram
• Twitter for photo journalists
• Mobile based but there are apps for PC use
• For example try iconosquare which offers a photogallery widget you can drop into Facebook or wordpress.com websites (premium version)
• Create hashtag feeds or link from your blog site to your own public iconosquare url
Using Pinterest
• A digital mood or storyboard
• Identify themes of interest to your audiences
• Follow those with similar interests – identify feature angles and opportunities
• See amnesty case study in your workshop tasksheet
Workshop activities
• Still photos: Crop, edit and caption the image you have chosen to accompany your existing news story
• Datajournalism: Start to compile some statistics – see Tasksheet for suggested sources and have a go at creating your own infographic with www.piktochart.com
• Pinterest: Identify a range of themes and create and link to a Pinterest board from your website
• Instagram: Sign up, if you’re not already. Try out iconosquare and organise your media into groups. Identify hashtags of interest to your audience and consider linking to a hashtag feed from your site
For next session
• Create a dynamic photo story using a slide show, gallery or Pinterest board linked to one of your news stories or create a new story based on photographs
• You may use webs.com inbuilt photo features or link to another page or feed from your website
• NEWS GATHERING: Next session we’ll be writing and publishing news bulletins. Using your established online news sources identify at least 10 potential stories. At least 1 or 2 you need to develop into a full news article, others you can curate by tailoring a head and intro for your target audience.