Eyeless on Campus: JOURNALISM 108--"You Do You"--Comments and Responses-- U OF NEVADA, RENO,..FALL 2018

Friday, September 14, 2018

JOURNALISM 108--"You Do You"--Comments and Responses-- U OF NEVADA, RENO,..FALL 2018

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Part B: Documentation
Colors in my You Do You Challenge
Spring Rain--#ADCBA7
Frosted Mint--#CAFFF5
Paco--#2E0B0E
Suva Gray--#827D80

What would you do differently in this image if you had more time and/or skills? The image is a screen capture from an MP4 created using a Canon HD Vixia HF R62. The colors were translated from the color picker located at https://html-color-codes.info/colors-from-image/. The Hex Codes were translated into the names of the colors at http://chir.ag/projects/name-that-color/. The overall setup could have been staged at KNPB-TV (where I work) using a studio green screen and the control room to edit but the home version required a bit more of an effort to achieve even rudimentary results. In maintaining the theme of simplicity, it was edited on a Microsoft paint program.

What does this statement mean to you? There was a time when journalism was not web based and the reporter had to fend for himself with whatever means was available to him. That is partly the reason I chose not to create the Challenge at the KNPB studio. State-of-the-art equipment; lighting, cameras, editing rooms and final cuts, all readily available, would have been a takeaway from the process of basic media technique, much of it lost to modern technology.
"Self-confidence allows me enough self-doubt to question new things."
Edited by JCL on Sep 11 at 8:20pm

Yesterday Sep 13 at 10:16am
Hi James, I think that this photo is very creative. I like how you were able to have the light in the photo match the word color. I think the quote compliments the photo as well. Great job!

8:01pm Sep 14 at 8:01pm
Hello Janessa, Thank you for the comment. I readily admit that being photogenic is not one of my resume high points. Therefore it is necessary to adjust the lighting, take and retake, choreograph and rechoreograph and rehearse and re-rehearse for one simple image. Try to hide the flaws created by age, hair color and just plain not cut out to be a leading actor like Cary Grant. But it is true that self-confidence can create an environment to doubt something that is not authentic, a make-believe, a Wizard of Oz world evolving as a result of social media and its propensity to elevate even those with zero talent into the spotlight. Journalism is real and eventually it will separate the professionals from the amateurs.

Yesterday Sep 13 at 4:34pm
Hi James, I liked your photo because the green light matched your text color very well. Plus, the image clearly matched the quote, and they were so nice together!

8:10pm Sep 14 at 8:10pm
Thank you Ran, The green light was not my first choice but on trying other colors in the image, none of them worked. The font is called "Bohemian typewriter" and the size (probably) "35." That Remington typewriter in the photo is a gem and I searched every thrift shop in Reno and found it in the last one, The Thrift Depot, on East 4th Street. It is in mint condition minus only a ribbon. The tag was $80 but got it at a discount of $56. The girl's comment when I carried it over to the counter was,
"Is that thing finally going away?"

Yesterday Sep 13 at 9pm
Hey James. I like what you said about journalism but I also don't consider it a detractor. If anything it is a sign of the change we have seen in our society. While the internet has fundamentally changed our news source and quality. It also allows for some great minds to emerge out from under the constrictive and damaging monopoly that the corporate monster used to hold.

7:48pm Sep 14 at 7:48pm
Hello Malachi, Thank you for the insight. Newton Minow, in 1961, labelled television a "vast wasteland." That was about the time series such as "Rawhide," "I Love Lucy" and "Leave It to Beaver" were popular; westerns and wholesome family sitcoms. Minow has yet to comment on the current trend of reality television. He has yet also to comment on what we see on the internet with blogging, fake news and social media.
"When television is bad, nothing is worse," Minow said in May of 1961. Almost nothing is worse.

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