Genre of News Photography and Writing of Text Description

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First, the genre of news photography

1, photo news 2, special news photo report 3, special news photo report

1, photo news

1) Features of photo news:

? Highly generalized and typical, revealing the personality characteristics of characters and grasping the essence of things.

? Understand the cause and effect, and choose the shooting angle that can best reveal the characteristics of the event.

? The text is concise, explaining the necessary news elements and guiding readers to understand.

2) Photographic news shooting requirements:

? Capture typical scenes, plots and details.

? Make the news image prominent and intuitive

? Seize a typical moment

Whether you can catch the fleeting typical moment is the key to success, and whether you can shoot it well or not. Photographers should quickly mobilize all their abilities and energy to deal with each shot. They should be clear-headed, sharp-eyed, quick-thinking and skilled, so as to capture good pictures and then write good picture descriptions.

2. Close-up news photo report

What are the typical events in major news events? Close-up? On the expression of formula or photographic report from the perspective of personality characteristics

The purpose of close-up is to strengthen the visual effect and reveal the characteristics and significance of news photography events from a deeper level.

Profound, revealing and typical is better than photo news.

The factor of close-up news pictures is not the scenery, but the revelation.

Close-up news photo reports can be single or series.

3, special news photo report

Franklin was the originator of special news photography reports? Roosevelt's Wild West (Life Magazine)

Eugene, master of special news photography? Smith's representative works include Spanish Village, Country Doctor and Minamata.

1) the characteristics of special news photography reports

? In order to form a complete story with a beginning, an end and a plot, many pictures are combined.

? The combination of the general description text and the single picture description text gives full play to the role and advantages of the text, and the combination of graphics and text makes it easier for readers to grasp the essence of the theme.

? The collection of multiple instantaneous images in multiple time and space contributes to the deepening of the theme.

? With the plot, grasping the reader's interest will help readers form a complete concept and a clear overall understanding of news things.

? Increase the attractiveness and interest of newspapers and periodicals, so as to give play to their advantages.

? Show the breadth of news and reveal its depth

2) Writing special news photo reports.

In the same space, many times

At the same time, multiple spaces

Multiple moments

multiaspect

3) Comparison between special news photography reports and special photography activities.

Have something in common:

P around the same theme;

P strives to show the comprehensiveness, diversity and profundity of things;

P realizes the overall advantage through multiple pictures, forming a certain momentum and influence;

P fully embodies the combination of graphics and text. So as to enhance the overall effect, readers can obtain feelings and information that are difficult to obtain simply from pictures or words.

P the difference is:

P Each special news photo report is only aimed at a certain news thing, and the coverage is still much smaller than that of special photo activities. Every reporter who takes part in special photo activities can shoot his own special news photo report;

P in the aspect of picture selection and editing, the picture selection of special news photography is narrow, and it should be selected according to the number and characteristics of newspaper or publication layout space; The theme of special news reports is relatively concentrated and prominent, concrete and unified; Thematic photography activities have a large theme and a wide range.

4) Editing principles and layout design of special news pictures.

The compilation basis of news topic's photographic pictures:

Express the needs of theme and layout.

The unity of typicality, representativeness, comprehensiveness and profundity, diversity and the size and characteristics of layout space, give full play to the role of layout language, and put? As a work of art, this special report strives for perfection, distinctive personality and prominent theme.

P Basic requirements of layout design: visual balance, harmony (integrity of content and parts), proportion and order (reasonable order).

Basic methods of layout design

Size, shape, scenery,

Content, color, appropriate quantity,

The layout is rich and varied.

Second, the writing of news photography description

1) the composition and characteristics of news photography text description

Title text description

Make the finishing point (make the static picture dynamic, dramatic and stereoscopic, and make the photo have a new feeling and new understanding)

Outline (grasp the key content of the picture and strengthen the theme)

Cut to the chase (cut to the chase, don't beat around the bush)

Simple and clear (words are highly summarized and appropriately refined)

Explanatory text description

The language is accurate, delicate, popular and vivid.

2) Write pictures and text descriptions of different genres.

The writing of news headlines of pictures (explain the time, place and people in the news elements, and make footnotes for news pictures)

Writing of text description of close-up news photography report (showing profundity and revealing)

The writing of the headlines of news photos (give full play to the advantages of writing to make the article vivid or profound and comprehensive; You can talk to each other, or you can reason, judge and express your feelings)