Magazine Cover Peer Review

1. The name of the magazine is Wander. Yana made this magazine.
2. The picture is cool and I like the title font.
3. I think the text being a little more organized could have helped the cover look better overall.
4. I picked this cover because it was pretty cool.
5. There is a barcode and it is a good size.
6. I don't think I would pick this magazine up at Barnes & Noble, just because it doesn't catch my eye.
7. It looks like a portrait.

Yearbook Introduction

• organizations & clubs
• student pictures
• senior quotes
• favorite musical artist of every student under their picture
• flowers
• title
• name of the school
• volume number
• school year
• school address
• index
• table of contents
• voted most likely, etc
• art
• culture
• accomplishments of organizations
• student commentary
• cover picture
• cover design

1. It's Not Just Black And White...

2. Jefferson High School

3. Throughout the whole yearbook, students' interests and what they are known of are a big topic.

4. This book has 14 sections.

5. My favorite spread is the one about Alpine Skiing. 

6. There is an index in my yearbook.

7. There is photos of many clubs and organizations.

8. There is sadly no table of contents.

9. Approximately 1,890 students go to this school.

10. This school is located in Minnesota.

Prompt Shoot Peer Review

http://rebeccasphotojournalismblog.blogspot.com/2016/01/prompt-shoot-3.html

1. The photo I like the best out of these is connected. It just looks the most professional out of the four.
2. My least favorite of the photos would most likely be the photo of the sign. It's just not creative and was simply to fit the prompt before time ran out.
3. The photos are visually appealing and the angles that were chosen to take the pictures from were successful.
4. I am having a difficult time thinking of an area that this person could improve upon. These photos were pretty solid.
5. In my opinion, the picture of the chairs connected by the chain captures the prompt the best.
6. I think the picture that did the least effective job of capturing the prompt is the 'yummy' picture because the sign itself probably wouldn't be very tasteful.

Prompt Shoot 3

eight

 footprints

 pose

 the end

magazine covers

Review of 2015

Favorite Photos of the Year

 This photo is pretty touching because losing a father would be hard for anyone and you can really see the emotion from him just laying there with his face covered.

 This photo really shows the awful reality of terrorists/shooters and I think it's amazing that this event was captured in a photo.

I think it is so rare that this person was in the exact right place at the exact right time because if they were further up the road, they would've been hit by the plane. If they left the house 1 minute later, they wouldn't have seen it. Also, they got their phone out in time to snap this photo? I just think it's pretty crazy how unlikely this photo is.

Best Songs of 2015

Bad Habits by FIDLAR; 

Sandra's Smile by Blood Orange
Bad Habits is off of FIDLAR's second album which came out in 2015. I personally don't like their new album as much as their first, but this particular song is pretty dang good. Sandra's Smile is a single that Blood Orange released a couple months ago, which is going to be on his third LP coming soon! He is very into what's going on in the lives of young African Americans and this song is about a young woman who was wrongly killed.

Best Movies of 2015

6 Years;

Dope

6 Years is a movie that was put on Netflix a couple months back and I'm pretty sure it skipped the theaters, but I really liked it for its cinematography, the love story in it, and it was also very sad and for some reason I like sad movies. I saw Dope in theaters and going into it I didn't expect much, but it was a very good movie and I think it had a good message.

Most Important News Story

Mass Shootings

Person of the Year

Bernie Sanders

Biggest Sports/Entertainment Person

Mr. Reeves

My Break

1. Something during my break that I will remember, is eating Chinese food on Christmas day. I thought it was kind of funny because Christmas is supposed to be this big thing but it just felt like some other day.

2. My resolutions for the year 2016 are pretty much just to enjoy myself more. I did not really make any official resolutions because personally, I think a bunch of people making resolutions and carrying them out for under a week is pretty ridiculous.

3. In 2016, I am looking forward to turning 18, to finding more music and movies, and changing my life a bit.