Woohoo! Here's my FIRST post for my FIRST blog ever! I've never been one to keep a diary, let alone an online log, so I'm interested to see how I'll like making posts, and whether I'll keep up with it.
So along with being new to the blog world, I am also not a very experienced photographer. I've taken a few photographs for stories before, but not many. I never even owned a camera until last year, which was when I studied abroad in London. I took A LOT of photos while I was there, a few of which you can see in my slideshow the the right ---->... and I gained some perspective in the wold of photojournalism. To me, seeing a good photograph in the paper or on a online site is a hook that reels me in. It can capture a split second of a moment that can tell us so many things, and also create so many questions. Video is also an important, newer way in which news is presented; most online news sites will present a story with an accompanying video.
I'm most excited/nervous about learning how to cut video into a presentable fashion. In our last class Sandy talked about how a five minute video clip could have come from hours of raw footage. Yikes. However, we were also shown some amazing photojournalism web sites (particularly James Nachtway)and that definitely sparked my desire to just go out and shoot.
I look forward to the next three months of snapping photos and filming video. I've thought about what stories I'd like to cover: struggles with unemployment, adapting to dorm life, trying to stand out in a school of 14,000... I haven't narrowed it down yet, but I'd like be able to capture these ideas through moving images.
Until next time,
-Hattie
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