Design Rules
This will help your design look like everything goes together. Examples are when the same font is used multiple times or the same font size used multiple times.
What is repetition?
These two things go below a photo.
What are a photo credit and photo caption?
You should make sure to ask this before you start your video.
What is permission to record?
This section deals with articles about people and events.
What is the features section?
You can use this function on your camera to make objects look closer up or further away.
What is zoom?
Too much of this will make the page look empty. Too little will make it look crowded.
What is whitespace?
What is a subheadline?
You need to make sure you have this spelled right by the end of the interview.
What is their name?
What is photography?
You can use this function on your camera to help align objects in your photos based on the rule of thirds. It looks like lines going down and across the screen.
What is a grid?
This is a part of contrast. It is used to show what is most important on a page.
What is hierarchy?
This is where the actual information in the article is located.
What is the body of the article?
If you are interviewing for an event, you should know when this happened.
What is when the event took place?
This person manages a section and edits articles before they are sent to the copy staff.
This is the best time of day to take photos outside.
What is dawn and/or dusk?
What are the 5 principles of design?
What are proximity, whitespace, alignment, contrast and repetition?
Every article needs at least one of these.
What is a photograph?
For an article about school policy, you should interview this kind of person.
What is an administrator?
This is the person who is in charge of the newspaper.
What is the editor-in-chief.
This is the rule that dictates that you should take photos of an odd number of things in your photos.
What is the rule of odds?
This is when alike things are grouped together.
What is proximity?
This is how long an article should be.
What is between 200 and 500 words?
These kind of articles do not always need interviews.
What are opinions articles?
In a professional newspaper, this section is in charge of making sure everything is spelled right and there aren't any grammatical errors.
What is the copy section?
This type of alignment is used while taking photos to make sure the objects in the picture are positioned in a visually pleasing way.
What is the rule of thirds?