Final Portfolio

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Link: http://www.estefaniadeleon.com/

Socializing Through Social Media

Here is our finalized video project on social media.

Click here to go to YouTube to view our video.

Video Story Idea

Story Idea
Our story idea is to look at how relationship have been affected by social media.  We've recently noticed how unsocial people are, even if they're around others, simply because they were easily distracted by social media.  We want to look at how different it is in interaction via social media versus in person.  Looking specifically at quality of relationships, number of close friends and how we interact in day to day lives, because of these new outlets.

Structure:
Hey! You, See, So.
-Hey: compare two friendships one in a personal interaction one with no interaction in person, hanging out but on phone
-You: This is something everyone has been through, it's pretty unavoidable, even just witnessing it.  So it applies to you.
-See: interviews describing relationships with examples.  We'll look at both pros and cons
-So: Offer some solutions. but leave it open to viewer to see their own lives and how Social Media has affected them and if they need to change.

Text Component: 

In addition to containing some of the narrative of the video the text would also include more statistics on this problem, as well as links to websites that help offer solutions. Specifically it has been brought to our attention that there are things that can block a person from accessing their Facebook for a period of time.  The text component will allow us to expand on different topics (Psychology study) that might not be quite as interesting in video format. We want to ensure that both of them supplement each other, yet we don’t want anyone to have to read/view both in order to fully understand our topic.

Interviews:
-Students/Random People whoever we find
-Look into...there is probably some organization on campus that deals with the issue
-Grad Students (Psychology) (Facebook with Friends Psychology Study)

Belo Video Project || Haley Cavazos, Renee Moreno, Neyda de Leon

This is what Haley Cavazos, Renee Moreno, and I worked on this past week.
Check it out!

Extra Credit: News Photos

Above is an image that went along with an article from the New York Times about addictive junk food. Where the picture is not bad in quality and portrays something most people could relate to from their elementary school years, in my personal opinion it holds no real value for the story and is just showing a lunchable which merely restates something that is known to most.

I actually found this picture on the Huffington Post twitter feed for their coverage of the Oscars. The tweet read "Aww! Joseph Gordon-Levitt getting some wardrobe help from Sally Field #Oscars" and had the picture attached as well as a link with the full coverage which included the picture above. Where this would have been a great picture to portray the interaction between Sally Field and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the quality of the picture is in my opinion terrible as it is very blurry making it almost loose the entire meaning.

Estefania's Picture Assignment

Here is the link so you can check out my picture at Lady Bird Lake!
http://estefaniadeleon.blogspot.com/2013/02/sunset-at-lady-bird-lake.html

Neyda Estefania's Cable Car

Here is my version of the cable car picture. I'm not sure if I'm content with it but it is supposed to be a cloudy, gloomy day which is shown in this photo.

Meet Alex and Becca! by Estefania de Leon

Alex Wilts
Major: Journalism and International Business
Year: Second Year
Hometown: El Paso, TX

Alex likes flowers.

Alex used to work at a movie theater.

These are Alex's top three favorite news sites:

• The New York Times
• BBC
• The Los Angeles Times

Alex enjoys watching music videos on YouTube. Death Cab for Cutie anyone?

Second Partner

Becca Gamache

Major: Journalism

Year: Second Year

Hometown: College Station, TX

Becca comes from a military family and has lived in various states around the country. Her family decided to settled down in College Station and she immediately decided she did not want to to be an Aggie.

Her favorite news sites are CNN and The Daily Texan.

 

During her spare time, she enjoys watching gymnastic bloopers on YouTube.