Writing around Photographic Images

COM Students:

Helping an audience understand the mission and purpose of a business or organizations is often guided by imagery. Your assignment for this week requires that you present a local business or organization to the public in a print promotional flyer by taking a photograph that is representative of the mission or work of the entity. To achieve this, you must investigate the works of local businesses or organizations, find out what causes they support, and seek out opportunities to take original photographs that promote the mission or work.

JRN Students:

Many times when breaking news is simply not happening, journalists are tasked with “making news.” Your assignment for this week requires that you take a photograph in your local community from which you can make a relevant news story. To achieve this, you should seek out events or study the issues in your local area. Then, go out into the community to photograph those things that a reader for the local newspaper or magazine would care about, and build a story around it.

Important: Please read the instructions below carefully, and follow them according to your area of study. If you are a COM student, your instructions fall at the front of the “or,”and if you are a JRN student, you should follow the instructions after the “or” in each criteria. If there is no “or” included in a criteria, it applies to all students regardless of area of study.

For this assignment, you

Must compile a series of original photographs (two to three images) from which you can create a promotional print publication for a local business or organization or compile a series of original photographs (two to three images) around an event or issue from which you can make a news story.
Must create a one-page print publication (350 words) about a local business or organization or write a full-page story (350 words) about the event or issue around one of the photographs in the series.
Must summarize facts and/or statistics that are relevant to the story or publication.
Must provide proper attribution for all sources of information included in the story or publication.
Must explain why you chose the image out of the series of photographs that you took, using the principles and concepts learned this week.

For the story you

Must adhere to the Print Publication template for the print story or the Newspaper template for the news story.
Must complete the Visual Image Compilations template
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Must follow the standards of Associated Press (AP) Style. (For guidance on AP style, COM majors should consult the appendices in the Strategic Writing text from COM 345 and JRN majors should consult the AP Stylebook.)
Must be at least 350 words but no more than 400 words.
Must incorporate at least two of the following types of information:
The opinion of an expert related to the publication or an original interview (in person, email, by phone, or by video conference) with a specific, expert opinion on the topic.
An additional opinion from an expert related to the publication or a varying opinion on the topic in the form of an additional interview conducted by the student or from a credible source where another person was interviewed with an opposing opinion.
A statistical and/or factual piece of information about the topic from a credible source.