JOURNALISM LECTURE 5 - PICTURE STORIES

PICTURE STORIES
 There was no lecture and tutorial in the previous week due to the Ekka Festivals. I  did not attend the festivals and my friends made me jealous by telling me their stories and the fun they had but I enjoyed my bed.
In this weeks lecture the topic was PICTURE STORIES.
It started with a question of is it  true a picture is worth 1000words??
I agree that a picture is worth 1000words because truth is through an image we are able to tell the emotions of the person in the picture, the venue and the mood of the background.
The lecture taught us that pictures are all over I mean everywhere we are we are surrounded by images especially through the websites and now there are many creations of apps with picture related things.
In history there was also use of pictures although not digital as many cultures would draw whatever they felt and most images had deeper meanings until now.
In the religious institutions we see images in Holy books and also in the cathedral glasses.
In the early newspapers there were also pictures which were in the line drawing format. The first published photo was in 1880 it was unclear. In 1936 The Scottish Daily Record and Mail published the first newspaper with a colored photograph.
INTERESTING NEWS the 1st published pictures on the internet were published in the year 1992 yeah same year I was born. THINK ABOUT NOW WE HAVE INSTAGRAM!! :-)
JUST A FEW FACTS
14 million –Number of Instagram accounts created.
• 60 –Average number of photos uploaded per second to Instagram.
• 100 billion –Estimated number of photos on Facebook by mid-2011.
• 51 million –Total registered users on Flickr.
• 4.5 million –Photos uploaded to Flickr daily.
• 6 billion –Photos hosted on Flickr(August 2011).
• Apple iPhone4 is the most popular camera on Flickr.

That was quite interesting right?
The 1st video uploaded on YouTube was in  23rd April 2005  and ever since 72hrs of video is uploaded on YouTube per minute.
Complications are Digital manipulations eg. Too much Photoshop creating a poor mentality to the public.
Digital Publishing is a concern too as companies find it cheaper to advertise on their own than use digital companies.
WHAT MAKES A GREAT PHOTO
1. Frames
2. Focus
3. Angle
4.Exposure
5. Timing
6. Capturing
I learnt about moving pictures too and how to create the best moving pictures