Project Expectations and Evaluation

MINOR ASSIGNMENTS: SLR PHOTOGRAPHY / PHOTO JOURNALISM

SLR photography is a component of this course that will explore topics in framing, lighting, aperture settings, shutter speeds and Photoshop touch-ups and effects. Students will go out on photography excursions and will be encouraged to sign out equipment over weekends. A book containing student work is professionally published at the end of the year.

SAMPLE JOURNALISM PROJECTS

The Tar Sands (Includes interviews with Alberta ministry and Greenpeace HD footage. Produced by Corey Oringer and Daniel Wiseman)

Coral Reefs (Includes video interviews with international experts).

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Click here to view sample of Environmental Investigative Report

MAJOR PROJECT: INVESTIGATIVE REPORT

One of the "investigative" options is to produce an investigative report that focuses upon a specific issue pertaining to the environment. Students in Broadcast Journalism have created a website designed to empower students as on-line activists to fight climate change. The website is due to launch in July, 2010.

Each student selects an environmental issue of concern and produces a factually accurate report--with expert interviews--on their topic. Their documentary is then posted on Youtube and will be linked into the planetwatch.tv database.

Upon launching planetwatch.tv in July, students and schools from around the world will be invited to contribute to this student initiative, which will hopefully lead to submissions that highlight the impact of climate change at a local level in communities around the globe.

MINOR PROJECT: DOCUMENTARY REPORT

As an introduction to the journalism process and basic skills training, students are assigned the task of producing a short documentary on a significant Canadian that interests them. These reports are now being compiled into a larger database of "heritage moments."

Louis Riel: 18th Century Canadian Rebel

Pierre Trudeau: The Great Canadian PM

Joe Schuster: Canadian Creator of Superman

Tom Thompson: Great Canadian Artist

Wayne Gretzky: The Great One

RUSH: Canadian Rock Legends

Jacques Plante: Intorduces Goalie Mask

Maurice Richard: "The Rocket"