Interview (Bio) 20 Questions~

In class we had to do an interview to talk about ourselves. We were asked twenty questions: 

Photo Essay Project

We were also given a project where we had to take pictures and talk about certain things like the color contrast etc.. But i decided to use pictures I previously took when I went to Disney World two years ago.

Newspaper Article

This is a newspaper article I had to do because we were supposed to have a school newspaper, but that never happened.

Midterm Essay

This was an essay about a quote from a journalist back when we had midterms.

PSA- Alternatives for Battered Women with Jahde, Janelys, Jasmina

Speakers

For our class we had to make a commercial about a product that we "made" so me and my partner came up with speakers (even though that's already a thing)

Dan Eldon Essay

Reyenne Stevens

4/8/15

Dan Eldon

                                                        Dan Eldon: Dying To Tell a Story    

                       Robert Cappa once said “You can’t hide behind your camera because as you look through it, you get closer to the person you photograph.” Most people would call photojournalists crazy but sometimes they really help open our eyes to what’s happening in the world. And a lot of the photo journalists come back from the warzone that they are taking pictures in very traumatized. Amy Eldon created a short film for her brother, Dan Eldon who was a photojournalist that was stoned to death by an angry mob while on his way back home.

     The journalists who go out to the warzones are not crazy, at least I think they’re not because that’s their own choice to go out and risk their lives to capture what’s going on in the real world. Some of them are heroes because sometimes they expose all of the terrible things that are either happening in the USA or that are not even happening in the country while risking their lives doing it. By risking their lives they save other people by taking pictures/videos. But then civilian journalism they risk their lives even MORE because they can get arrested for taking videos and posting them on the internet, they grab the attention of people around the world to show them “Here’s what is happening” and “Look what’s going on in our country.”

      Also some of them are not heroes because not all things need to be exposed and they’re snooping into situations that need to be left alone, it’s not their business. Some of them feel like they need to take pictures because it’s important. Christiane Annonpone said “There are certain people that have to do certain things.” Apparently he did an important thing. Then Martin Bell said that “He felt ashamed for not taking risks like he should. Felt useless that what he was doing wasn’t making any difference.” Sometimes, people don’t want their business exposed to the world news if it’s bad or not. But I personally think if it’s nothing good, go for it. Go take photos or do whatever that grabs the world’s attention.

            I honestly think that Amy Eldon sort of did the right thing about going to find out what exactly happened to her brother, she only knew that he died and wanted the specific details on why he died and how. I think that was very brave of her, most people wouldn’t even bother finding out what happen. Also I like the fact that she went to interview the people that her brother were close to or the people that her brother was on the trip with AKA the other journalists.

                 

                        One of the stories that are inspirational is Don McMullen’s, He said “If I’m no Robert Cappa at least I got close.” “When you look through the camera you feel even closer to the person you’re shooting.” “Tries to show things as hard as they are, as real as they are.” I think that quote should inspire people because basically he’s saying that it doesn’t matter if you not as good as Robert Cappa. What should matter is the event that you are capturing