Final deadline assignment helpful links

Sut Jhally's "Dreamworlds 3"  transcript: http://www.mediaed.org/assets/products/223/transcript_223.pdf

Fact sheet about "Dreamworlds 3"  http://www.mediaed.org/assets/products/223/presskit_223.pdf

Really good account of the making of another video in collaboration with Sut Jhally, titled "Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music.  The name of the piece by the video's producer Kembrew McLeod is "Making the Video: Constructing an Effective Counter-Hegemonic Message in Only Forty-Nine Minutes.": http://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=commstud_pubs  Good brief discussion of the way Jhally's use of film clips is supportable by the Fair Use Clause of the Copyright Act of 1976, "which protects the unlicensed re- production of media for the purposes of criticism, commentary and education."

"Women are More Likely to Be Half-Naked on Screen and Other Film Stats": Interesting infographic about a related topic: women in film: http://jezebel.com/women-are-more-likely-to-be-half-naked-on-screen-and-ot-1472083619 (Example of the stats: "Women on screen are way more likely than men to be not-talking and naked or half naked. Using data from Top Ten lists, the highest-earning woman in Hollywood makes about as much as the lowest-ranked men.")

Final assignment

The final assignment is a 600-word  deadline speech/event story. Plan to email it to me pasted in the email by 11 p.m. Monday, Nov. 25 if you are going to write about a speaker at the Tedx Professor Speaker Showcase, 6 p.m. in the Isenberg Flavin auditorium.

If you can NOT make it to this event, plan to write about a video I will show in class on Tuesday, Nov. 26. If you go to the Tedx event and send me your piece by 11 p.m., you do NOT have to come to class on Tuesday.

Your piece should include:

•  a solid lead that makes an assertion about the speaker's main theme
• a nutgraph that sums up that this was a Tedx event and a sentence explaining what that is, and that it is the second one held at UMass,  about how many people attended, who the speaker was that you are writing about and some of the key points he/she made that you will expand upon in your paper. (Or, if you do the Tuesday assignment, a video about what topic, directed by whom, and the year it was made and several key points about the video that you will expand upon in your piece.)
• quotes from the speaker (or speaker(s) in the video)
• Meaningful quotes from two people who attended

For more information about what Tedx, in general, is, check out the website: http://www.ted.com/pages/about

Here's what the UMass Journalism Facebook page says about the Monday, Nov. 25 Tedx Professor Speaker Showcase:

"Prof. Shaheen Pasha has been chosen to give a talk at the UMass Amherst Tedx Professor Speaker Showcase at 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 25, in Isenberg's Flavin Auditorium. Pasha will give a talk entitled "What's Your Story?" about how her own personal narrative informed her work as a journalist on three continents."

More AP Tips

See:  Twelve Common Mistakes
and for titles: Quote Marks, Italics, Underline or Naked: AP vs Chicago style

Titles

• Capitalize and spell out formal titles such as professor, dean, president and chancellor when they PRECEDE a name. 

• LOWERCASE elsewhere. 

• Occupational titles are always lowercase, such as senior vice president Nancy Schmancy

TV, movie, book, newspaper titles:

• Use quotation marks for albums, TV shows, movies, works of art, speeches books, video games

• Do NOT italicize or put quotation marks around magazines and newspapers.

Vocabulary/words/spelling

• The words toward, upward, forward and backward do NOT end is S. For instance: She ran toward the front of the room.
• Use "more than" not over -- when you refer to numbers, for instance, More than 400 people came to the party. Not Over 400 people were at the party.
• Use fewer than -- not less than -- when referring to numbers. There were fewer than six people in line. Not -- There was less than six people in line.
• Blond is a noun for males and an adjective for males and females, as in She had blond hair. Blonde stands alone for a woman, as in, She was a blonde
• Fractions standing alone are spelled out, as in One-fourth of the students were absent.

Abbreviations:

• When using a month with a specific date abbreviate the following months Jan. (as in Jan. 1). Feb., Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov., and Dec. Spellout when using alone or with just a year. Don't abbreviate: March, April, May, June and July. Don't capitalize the seasons in general.
• For numbered addresses, abbreviate Ave., Blvd. and St. Not Road.

Capitalization

• Capitalize iPad and iPhone when beginning a sentence.. It's Google, Googling, Googled.
• Academic degrees are not capitalized, as in She had a bachelor's degree and a master's degree.