Journalism Class - Monday November 14

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

Spider is lounging in his chair, cat in his lap and a huge mug of coffee in one hand.

"Today, as promised, we will be discussing your final term project. I hope that everyone is paying attention. We'll work out the specifics by the end of the week, but here is what I expect of you.

Each journalism student, saving only our photo journalist, needs to select one other student from the school population. Your subject must be another student and they must be someone you know only casually. It would be better if they were a complete stranger. No friends, roommates or significant others may be chosen for this project.

Once you have chosen your subject, you will need to approach them and arrange for an interview and, this is the important part, permission to accompany them home for an hour or so (preferably with your photojournalist also at hand). Coffee, lunch, a fast space battle... whatever appeals to you both. Please apply to me for the appropriate permissions to leave campus, as this is a sanctioned school activity.

I want to see a 400 word article on your chosen subject as a well-rounded person - not as a student at Fandom High. I also will require the text of the interview. Choosing someone who has already been featured in any public interview or student newspaper article is frowned upon. I want to see fresh material, please.

Each article must be accompanied by two photographs. One needs to be a standarized head shot, and our Photojournalist will be responsible for those. It is permissable for her to set either appointments or put aside a day wherein she will be available to take those photographs. It will be your responsibility to see to it that the subject shows up. The second photograph needs to be of something significant to the subject and the article (hence it being a good idea to ask the photojournalist to accompany you on your field trip - if she cannot fit you into her schedule, other arrangements can be made through me).

That's all for the moment. An official Homework post will be made tomorrow. In the meantime, discuss."

Comments

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

((a 400 page article! Wow Spider really is an ass isn't he *g*))

[positive-angel.livejournal.com]

*gulp* 400 page article?

[courier-gavin.livejournal.com]

Jake stares wide-eyed at Spider. "I hope to god he means words."

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

Duce looks over at Jake, then up at Spider impassively. "This could be fun."

[courier-gavin.livejournal.com]

"...I may cry."

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

"That could be fun too," Duce notes.

[positive-angel.livejournal.com]

"Hard to say..."

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John almost passes out at the mention of a 400 page article.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"You think he's kidding?" Rory whispers, glancing over at John. "Or maybe that he means four hundred words, not pages?"

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John makes a show of pounding on his chest to restart his heart. "God, I hope he's joking or I'm screwed. There's no way I can write 400 pages on ANYTHING."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Yeah. I mean...people here are interesting, but I don't think I could write a novel like that about myself, even," Rory says, shaking her head vehemently.

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"If I wrote down every single thing about myself, everything I've ever done in my life, I still wouldn't fill up two hundred pages." He shakes his head and considers, like Jake, crying for a bit. "I wonder how big our fonts can be....?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"I know this really cool trick with margins," Rory says, pensively chewing on the tip of her pen. "And if you extend the space between the letters? Makes the whole thing a lot longer."

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John is actually writing all this down. "Good ideas. And I remember a friend saying Courier New is the best font to use. It's a huge font and we can make it bigger by making the font size bigger. And triple space! Forget double spacing, triple spacing here I come!"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"I think he might notice if you triple space," Rory frowns. "But Courier New is probably our best bet. And we should use a title page and stuff. And a dedication, since those are short. Oh, and page numbers, since that's a line or two at the top or bottom. It shouldn't be that hard. Really."

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

Beka listened to the announcement from her usual post in the doorframe. She sipped her coffee, and considered who she might interview. "Four hundred pages is a helluva a lot by end of term, sir."

[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

Krycek hmphs softly at the mention of '400 pages', wondering if Spider had enough sleep. He makes a short note to go see him later, then begins thinking who would be most interesting as an assignment.

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

Seated in her usual spot, D'anna scribbled down notes on the project. When the professor said, "I want to see a four hundred..." Her eye brows went up in surprise and she pressed her coffee cup to her lips so no one else could see her smirk. Some times? It was good to be the photojournalism student.

[soldtoarmenians]

Four hundred... Xander blinks. Really, really hard.

Then he giggles nervously and seeks in his shirt pocket for an extra Twinkie, because that's what Xanders do.




{{And his mun, who has in fact written 400 pages on one subject before, but suspects epic unfinished Spike/Xander smutfic will not be accepted in lieu of assignment, giggles non-nervously.}}

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

D'anna tilts her head, "you alright there, Xander?"

[soldtoarmenians]

"Sorry, just thinking that if I have to write 400 pages, I'm gonna be graduating in about 2000-and-never. Please tell me he just hasn't had enough coffee yet?"

[dbiers.livejournal.com]

D'anna raised an eyebrow and grinned. "There's no telling what he's had. Maybe if you write really, really big he won't notice?"

[soldtoarmenians]

"Like if I hire somebody from the Flight Club to skywrite it, you mean?"

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

[*fangirls your Xander like woah*]

[soldtoarmenians]

[muchas gracias!]

[lady-jessica-bg.livejournal.com]

"Er...in that case, perhaps I really need to get started."

[suzotchka.livejournal.com]

Ivanova doesn't even really notice the '400 page' bit, but she is rather worried about trying to find someone she didn't know well. She wasn't that - oh who was she kidding. She had no shame.

[mycanonhatesme]

Chloe's a little concerned as to what kind of drugs Spider might be taking, or not taking as the case may be. She sits back and starts thinking through the rest of her classes, making a list of students she doesn't know who might make good subjects.