My interview with Avery Fish

Student of the Month Questions.


 Name of student? 
Avery Fish
Grade?
10th, Sophomore.
Academy?
Social Services
Date won the award? 
January 19, 2011
Who presented the Student of the month award to you?
Chanelle Figueroa
Is this award only presented to students in your academy specifically or can students outside your academy win?
"Anyone outside the academy can win."
Does the award go by grade level as well or overall?
Grade level.
Is this an award for good behavior or good grades?
Both.
What are the requirements for winning an award like this?
"Being a good student, and getting good grades."
What accomplishments did you achieve to make Student of the Month?
Passing TAKS
Is this your first time winning something like this?
"Yeah"
What thoughts were going threw your mind when you won this?
"I was surprised"
Is this a big deal or important to you in anyway?
"Yeah, it's a big deal"
Why or why not?
"Cause nothing like that has ever happened, for me."
Overall do you think you deserved this title?
"Yes."
If you won again, would if mean less to you or more?
"Uhmm it would mean more."
Why or why not?
"Cause I worked hard for it"
If you don't win this award again, will you stop doing all the good things you've done to earn this?
No.
Why or why not?
"Cause its still good to do them."
Are you gonna strive to win again or just go and keep doing what your doing?

"I'm gonna keep what I'm doing" 

Back-up questions...

-Is there any other ways to win, or be nominated other than good grades and behavior?

-Who is your favorite teacher on campus?

-Why?

-What advice would you give to students who are curious about winning such an award like this? 

Touching People

1. What do you think about this project and photo essay?
  I think its kind or neat, but you can see the awkwardness in the look of some of the people in the photo.

2. What would you do if someone approached you with a camera and asked you to participate in a photo shoot and then asked you to touch a stranger?
  I'd think it was a bit strange, I'd ask who it was I'd be touching and what for and how I'd be touching them or they'd be touching me and if it was okay then I'd do it.

3. Think of an unusual photo shoot similar to this one that you think would be fun to go and shoot. 

 Probably like an old scenery photo shoot, like the flapper times.

4. Finally, tell me what you thought of the photography, did the photographer think about the rules of photography that you know about? What types of photos did he take? 
 I thought it was normal, nothing special to me, looks the photos you get taken for a family photo. Some photos were showing simplicity and lines, but a lot the photos had merges that were distracting me and some backgrounds were very good.

Student of the Month Interview.

Student of the Month Questions.

•  Name of student?
• Grade?
• Academy?
• Date won the award?
• Who presented the Student of the month award to you?
• Is this award only presented to students in your academy specifically or can students outside your academy win?
• Does the award go by grade level as well or overall?
• Is this an award for good behavior or good grades?
• What are the requirements for winning an award like this?
• What accomplishments did you achieve to make Student of the Month?
• Is this your first time winning something like this?
• What thoughts were going threw your mind when you won thins?
• Is this a big deal or important to you in anyway?
• Why or why not?
• Overall do you think you deserved this title?
• If you won again, would if mean less to you or more?
• Why or why not?
• If you don't win this award again, will you stop doing all the good things you've done to earn this?
• Why or why not?
• Are you gonna strive to win again or just go and keep doing what your doing?

Interviewing skills

1. List three different sources you could interview for this topic.
The school board. Austin District.
Principles of the school, AP's (My own personal, priciples AP's in AHA! Academy)
Teachers.




2. Create 20 questions you could ask each source and post them on your blog.

• Why do you feel the need to appose uniforms on the students?
• What ideas do you have for uniforms?
• Will the board provide uniforms or will the students have to go out themselves and get them?
• If so, what about the families that don't have the money for this? Will there be an alternative way of getting the uniforms?
• Will there be specific coloring or uniforms to determine which grade the students are in?
• Will each school have different uniforms or will they all be the same?
• Why do you feel that public schools need school uniforms?
• How long have you been thinking or talking about this?
• Will you have students vote on or against it, or not?
• If a student chooses not to wear them, what will the punishment be?
• Teachers, will they be provided uniforms as well? And faculty?
• If so, how do you think the teachers would feel about that?
• How do you think the students will act or say about this dramatic change in dress code?
• What do you think parents would say? 
• Will there be a day when you can wear whatever you like (still being in dress code)?
• Do you think in forcing school uniforms will bring up grade averages and standardized test averages?
• Do you think this will improve, not improve, or stay the same in the school at all?
• If to many students/parents are upset about this fact will there be a change in decision?
•  If Austin ISD wants this, is it the schools principle's decision whether or not they want that for their school?
• Can the students and teachers over-rule this decision?

Sports/Action more details

Photographer name: Alyssa Schukar

List three problems that the judges note with the portfolio -
The judges said a lot of the photos were depressing and they would like to see more optimism, they said all the photos were shot at the same distance, the also said this photographer used the same lens.
List two things the judges like-
One judge said he really liked the picture with the man sweeping garbage with a shovel, he said he loved the pastel background and all the colors. Another judge said the one he really liked and his favorite was the one with the girl who fell down on the track while doing hurtles.
What is your overall impression? What did you like or not like?
 My overall impression was that I liked a few of the pictures, and I like how she caught the emotion of some people in her photos but overall I didn't like them. I found them very boring. The judges were right all the photos were almost the exact same, all shot at a certain distance. She didn't get in any special views. Nor did she try to move the camera around at all. I didn't like it all that much honestly.
  
Winning Portfolio-Dustin Snipes




What did the judges note as strengths as they were critiquing it?


 Color, composition, tight, very good positioning.

What do you see as strengths? Do you see any weaknesses?
 As for strengths, I like a really big was is how he takes his pictures and the angles he gets in make it seem like your actually in the photo. He makes his photos seem like your a person and your seeing what he sees, if that makes sense. 


Contest recap video

Briefly describe the process the judges went through in deciding the winner.
How the judges chose the winner, is the call out the number of the photo and they all go around talking what they liked or didn't like about the photo. If there are too many photos that they didn't like about the photographers then that photographer is out, until they finally found the one they liked.

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Parts 1-6 

1. Describe one photo that you agree with the judges on. Explain why you and the judges do or do not like it.

 The photo of the racing goats I think is what they are in part 5-best student image. They said the background wasn't that good. The fence bars behind the animals were mergers. I didn't like it.

2. Describe one photo that you do NOT agree with the judges on. Explain why you think the judges are wrong.  

I disagreed with the first photo of the first video. The one of the race car. I actually think the photo was rather good, and the photographer had the camera positioned in the right place. I didn't think it was nothing I thought it was pretty cool, and you can tell how incredibly fast the race car driver was going. I liked it.

Japanese Earthquake

 I find this photo very sad, and dramatic. I just think to myself how horrible it must be for then. It makes me feel so lucky and thankful I am to have a home and a bed to sleep in. Just thinking about not even 2 weeks ago they had everything. A home, a bed, a family and in a matter of minutes their life was turned around and lost everything.

 This photo really made me think. I can't really relate to this girl, but I can in a way because she a teenager. I can't imagine whats going in her head right now. But I'm pretty sure she lot everything from just seeing how alone she is. No home, no family, probably lost her boyfriend in this to. Everything and everyone gone. I don't know what I'd do if I were her. When everything you know is destroyed where would you go, how can she get help.
                                     
 I like this photo mainly because it gives an overall review of how everything was destroyed and how terrible things really look. I can imagine then place I've lived all my life looking like this. Everything is gone or underwater. Things look dirty, and broken. I can tell it will take a long time to repair things. Not only remaking buildings, cities, and homes but the people to. It will take a while to repair all the people who survived this tragedy. Not just these 3 photos but all of them just made me feel more thankful of what I have and more aware that anything can happen. Even to good people, and its nobody's fault.





   

Cool advertising ideas

I like a lot of the ideas, some much creative and detailed than others, this isn't the best detailed one but I like it. Mainly because I like underwater creations but I love all the detail and many hands involved in not just this photo but all. I chose this picture specifically because there are many like this photo, for example they used this scenery for the Bahamas. But they had more like United Kingdom, Mexico, China, ect. They used pictures with hands to go with their culture.