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Photo Essays " Project
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Session
5: Site Visit
Recommended time
Minimum
90 minutes, maximum two hours
Goals for the session
- Take journalistic and artistically expressive photos
- Conduct and record interviews
Outcomes
Materials and equipment
- Adobe PhotoShop or similar application
- Microsoft Word or similar application
- Digital camera(s)
- Copyright permission forms, if applicable
- Interview question cards
- Clipboards and paper (when mobile, easier to write on than
notebooks)
- Pencils
- Pens
- Index cards
- Hand-held tape recorder for interviews (optional)
The site visit should be coordinated as carefully as a regular field trip. For example:
- Make a contingency plan for unexpected events, such as bad
weather that may disrupt outdoor photography.
- If the visit will be to a site outside your program building,
discuss safety issues and appropriate public conduct.
- Map out a schedule to ensure that sufficient time is allotted
for interviewing, taking photos and other activities.
- Important: If interviews are going to be conducted with
specific individuals, talk to them beforehand about the goals of
the photo essay and the intention to publish it on the Web for
educational/nonprofit purposes. Get their permission to record
photos and interview content. If possible, have interviewees and
people who have agreed to be photographed sign a release form. Midlink
Magazine has links to copyright guidelines and permission
request forms for posting and linking to already existing
published content such as graphics, photos and text.
Make sure that participants have a clear focus and goals on the
day of the visit:
- Review the key questions of the photo essay inquiry.
- Discuss and assign roles related to conducting interviews,
recording interviews, taking photos and other tasks.
- Discuss how the camera(s) and any other equipment taken on the
visit will be shared.
- Decide on target goals for the trip, such as a minimum number
of photos to be taken and a minimum number of interviews.
If time permits, immediately following the visit begin typing
interview notes and editing photos.
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