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DIGITAL STILL PHOTOGRAPHY
1

Find and watch a Ken Burns documentary or other photography-based
documentary. In a short paper, talk a bit about what images were used
and how they helped bring meaning to the piece. Also, deconstruct
the use of still pictures in part of a Burns documentary. How were the
photographs used to tell a story? What did the producers and editors
do to augment the images? What about the photographs made them
valuable?

2

Find an event that is happening in your area and photograph it. Make
copies of your images and conduct a storyboarding or “throw down”
with them. When you’ve selected the images you think tell the story
best, sketch out a plan as to how they would be displayed in a news-
paper, magazine, and on the Web. Also, write a short paper that

this result.
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