PSA Topic

Karina Miranda

November 29, 2011

Mr Sandoval

Photography, Period 2

Teen Suicide

                My topic for my Public Service Announcement poster is teen suicide. I chose this topic because I know what it is like to go through life as a teen and I do not think suicide is an answer if you are having a hard life. Teens think that suicide is the answer to every solution but it is not. There is always a better solution and that could be spending your free time with other activities and making your life better than just sitting around feeling depressed. Yeah there sometimes might be big problems in your life as a teenager but that does not mean that you could just turn to suicide and throw your whole life away. Even just cutting yourself would mean signs of suicide and that is something nobody would like to see anyone go through. That is why I want to do this topic to get people to be aware of teen suicides and how anyone can help because everyone needs at least one person they can go to talk to about anything. Everyone deserves a second chance and nobody should turn to suicide no matter what kind of problems life throws at you.

A Perfect World

Karina Miranda

Mr. Sandoval

Photography, Period 2

November 17, 2011

A Perfect World

            To me a perfect world is everyone getting along. No enemies, no hatred, and no competition; everything would be fair. There would be no such thing as child abuse, or bullying, or harassment. The kind of world that I see when I dream is a world with absolutely no problems and hate. If I could choose a world I would want to live in, it would be a world where I could somehow take hate off the streets. Some things that would make the world a better place to live would be where everyone would just stop trying to be better than other people. No gangs and no such thing as any kind of abuse. Some problems in the world that concern me is wasting things, I think everyone should recycle and help make the world a better, greener place. Protecting the environment could do well for all of us and that would help us be a better society as well. I am also worried about all the wars and little battles going on and I wish the whole world could be at peace but I know that those kinds of things nobody could stop because not everyone in the whole world will ever be happy and agree on one thing.

SAMS Poster Questions

Karina Miranda

November 28, 2011

Mr Sandoval

Photography, Period 2

SAMS Poster Questions

v  Story:

1.       The story of this poster is to let people out there know what’s going on in the real world and let them know that there are many cases of child abuse going on in the world.

2.       What has changed from the beginning of the piece to the end of the piece is that in the beginning its showing all statistics of child abuse out there and in the end it’s showing a quote about the subject.

v  Audience:

1.       The audience for this piece is everyone. To show people that there really are horrible things going on out there in the world and if they know a case then they could call for help. That they shouldn’t think little of a situation like child abuse.

2.       What was in this poster that told me it was created for this audience was the hotline number it showed at the bottom of the poster. It said that if someone needed help or had any questions that they could call.

v  Message:

1.       The message of this piece is to show people out there that there really are many cases in the world that have to do with child abuse. That is the only main message in the piece. To reach out to people so they could help situations like child abuse.

v  Style:

1.       I would say this piece is nonfiction because it is all real. There really is child abuse that happens every day. It is not poetic, but it could be a personal story. There can always be a reason to why someone wrote or created whatever Public Service Announcement they did.

2.       The techniques the artist used were putting pictures of sad looking little kids and made it look faded so the pictures would fade away with the background.

3.       The artist used text and a phone number like a hotline.

4.       The quality of the visuals are very good because I like that the pictures fade away with the background. It complements the whole piece very well. Though the pictures fade away, they are very clear.

5.       No, there are no pictures that are distracting.

6.       The visuals contribute to the story because they help convey the message of child abuse since they are pictures of little kids looking all sad or hiding in corners trying to protect themselves with their hands.

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Future Goal Write-Up

Karina Miranda

Mr. Sandoval

Photography, Period 2

November 18, 2011

Future Goal Write-Up

                What I have always wanted to be when I grow up is not really in my best interest anymore. I have always wanted to be a veterinarian because I grew up with many pets and I really loved them. My family always had thought that because I was such an animal lover I would always become a vet. But my parents have always had high expectations of me. They have always expected good grades since the first day I ever was in school. So I have always worked hard in school. I always had some idea of what I wanted to be but as the years went by I kept on changing my mind. So I never really thought of one career at a time. As I got older I always noticed that I was in love with music and the music industry. When I would sit down and watch music videos on MTV something that would really bug me was when a music video would not go with the song itself. It got on my nerves because it would just ruin the whole song for me. When my mom and I would hear a song I could always somehow describe how I would imagine the music video would go. She always seemed impressed of the ideas I could come up with for each song so I started to think that a career as a music video producer could work. So that’s when I started liking the idea and now that’s what I want to be when I get older. I want to go to Los Angeles Film School since I just want to go get some training because to be a music video producer you do not need a lot of education. Just a Bachelor’s Degree in Art. This is my plan for the future.

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Flash Photography Research Paper

Karina Miranda

Mr. Sandoval

Photography, Period 2

November 2, 2011

Flash Photography

                Flash photography is when you use a light that is just artificial light. Flash can serve many

purposes and one of the main purposes is that it helps the camera to illuminate a scene that you

want to take pictures of. Flash photography can also be used to change the quality of light for the

scene. Another use of flash photography is to capture quickly moving objects. So even though it is

just artificial light that sometimes makes a photo look better in dark surroundings, it really does

make a difference. In many cameras now-a-days, the flash is built in and it is automatic. Most flash

units are built into the camera already, which is common. Professional photographers have their own

way of using flash. What they do is they have flash units that are large, standalone units. These

units are powered by special battery packs, or sometimes may even be connected to mains power.

So all they have to do is either synchronize the flash with the camera using a flash synchronization

cable or radio signal.  There are many uses and ways that flash is used in cameras, but one thing for

sure is that knowing how to use flash in a skillful way can make better results for picture-taking in

dark environments. But, even though using flash might sometimes make a picture look great, using

natural light sometimes can be just as beautiful.