Transcript
Shirin Ghaffary Applicant for Master’s in Visual Media at
IE School of Communication
Essay Prompt
• Show us an activity you enjoy
doing. Tell us how you think it
contributes to your personal
and professional development.
Answer: Telling stories
Mediums:
• Photo
• Video
• Journalistic writing
Telling Stories: Photography
Published over 50 photographs for a newspaper with 42,000
daily readers and a circulation of 10,000
Examples of photography
Front-page story photo about the son of two women became the
first same-sex couple to legally marry in the state of California in
2013.
Photo Portfolio SamplesScene from the play,
“Directions” at UC
Berkeley.
Photo of eccentric,
abandoned junk yard in
the heart of wine-country
of Napa, California.
Photo Samples - continued
Landscape of San Francisco Bay Area in California at night
Photo Samples - continued
Front-cover photo from a student protest at UC Berkeley, published
in Daily Californian 2010.
Work Examples: Video• Producer of a popular tv show on technology
news website, TechCrunch called “TC Cribs”– Clip below
Work also published in the
pages of:
Work Examples: Digital
Journalism• Travel Blogging
– Italy, Spain, Morocco, Germany,
England,
Taiwan.http://shirintravels.wordpress.com
/
More Examples: Travel Blogging
Work Example: Digital Journalism
Wall Street Journal:
Digital Strategy Intern
Designed a protoype for
new digital products
including iphone + ipad
app, website, magazine
Conclusion
Photography – Captured a range of
visual stories from breaking news such as
protests to profiles of artists through
portraits
The activities I enjoy have helped me become a professional visual journalist
Videography – Learned how to
produce, film, and edit an online tv
show which attracted viewers and
advertisers.
Digital Journalism – Used extensive
knowledge of journalism articles to come up
with an iPhone app for the Wall Street
Journal.
top related