Course description
Do you want to boost your skills in photo journalism? This course will allow you to explore how tomarket images and copy to a range of published media and combinephotography and writing to produce reports and articles for publication. Just what you need to kick-start your career.
Part A Introduction to Freelance Journalism
This gives you an overview of the basic skills needed to be a freelance journalist.
This section of the course will cover the following topics:
Unit 1: Introduction to Freelance Journalism
- What is news?
- The elements of news
- News in the community
- Community newspapers
Unit 2: What makes a good Freelance Journalist?
- What makes a good Freelance Journalist?
- The function of a Freelance Journalist
Unit 3: Gathering the News
- The beat system
- Sources and tools
Unit 4: Interviewing
- Preparing mechanically for interviews
- Developing note-taking skills
- Picking the interview location
- Conduct pre-interview research
- Conduct the interview
- Conduct the post-interview
Part B Introduction to Photo Journalism
This gives you again the basic skills to needed to combine photography and writing together into a good combined package of skills.
Unit 5: Understanding Photo Journalism
- Taking photographs for publication
- Two visual considerations
- Depth of field
- Isolating a subject
- Lenses and perspectives
- Composition
- The principles of composition
- Action in still photographs
- Stopping action.
Unit 6: Obtain and Record Cutline Information
- Who gathers cutline information?
- How to record the information
- What to record
- Match up the information with the photograph
- When to record the information
- Sports photography hints
- Filing cutline information
Unit 7: Writing a photographic Cutline
- Introduction
- The four-part cutline
- Equipment available
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