Picture Pages
This is when the image is divided into nine equal segments by two vertical and two horizontal lines for the purpose of balancing your image.
What is the Rule of Thirds?
This is the block of text that accompanies a photo in a print or online form.
What is a caption?
This is the promise by the government to respect individuals' rights of religion, speech, press, assembly, and to petition.
What is the First Amendment?
According to Ben Montgomery, these are the two most important features that make a good interview.
What are curiosity and empathy?
These are loaded with straight facts and cover as many of the 5Ws as they can pack into one sentence.
What are "hard news" leads?
You achieve this by evening out the main subject's "visual weight" by including another object of lesser importance to fill empty space.
Using the present tense, these are explained in the first sentence of a caption.
What are the 5 W's?
Because they are government agencies, public schools are limited by the First Amendment in their ability to do this.
What is to censor?
In order to get more than just a word or phrase from an interviewee, it's best to ask these.
What are open-ended questions?
This is one of the ways you do not what to end a feature.
What is editorialize/summarize/write "in conclusion"?
What is background?
The second sentence of a caption, which focuses on giving interesting information to readers and telling a story, is often written in this tense.
What is past?
What is the free press?
From doing this, you can determine a story angle, decide who to interview, and gain knowledge about your sources.
What is background research?
This is a way to bring a feature story full circle.
What is "set a scene"?
Doing this eliminates background "noise" and ensures that the main subject gets the viewer's undivided attention.
The third sentence in a caption should offer this from a witness or someone involved in the story.
What is a quote?
Before school officials could censor a student's on-campus speech, they had to apply this-- which means they would have to show that the speech either invaded the rights of others or created a "material and substantial" disruption of normal activities.
What is the "Tinker standard"?
Asking these are good for creating comfort at the beginning of an interview.
What are "softball" questions?
This is the one purpose of a lead.
What is entice the reader?
This is done by placing objects in a given location around the edge of the composition you help to isolate the main subject from the outside world, resulting in a more focused image which draws your eye naturally to the main point of interest.
What is framing?
Most of these only follow the first two guidelines of caption writing.
What are newspapers?
In this Supreme Court case, it was decided that censorship would be permitted where officials could demonstrate a reasonable educational justification for doing so.
What is Hazelwood (School District v. Kulmeier)?
You should do this with any quotes you plan to use.
What is transcribe?
This is one of the ways in which a feature may end.