WEST SIDE STORY IOWA CITY WEST HIGH SCHOOL
2901 MELROSE AVE.
IOWA CITY, IA 52246
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FEBURARY 8, 2016
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Grace Christopher 2 FEBRUARY 2016
Pages 4-5: Framing Pages 6-7: Lines Pages 8-9: Shutter speed Pages 10-11: aperture Pages 12-13: Perspective Pages 14-17: Portature Pages 18-19: Light Pages 20-23: Free form FOR MORE COVERAGE GO TO WSSPAPER.COM
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Upper left: A girl sits in the West high commons on her phone during her open period. Upper right: A girl walks back to her class while checking her phone. Lower left: The staircase is empty while class is going on, except for the occasonal late student.
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Lines
Left: The bricks on the exterior wall outside the front of west high school are beaten up since they have been there since the school opened in 1968. Above Left: The metal railing at the front of the school is frozen due to the chilling tempature. Above Right: The brick polls in the entry way of west high school apear to get closer togther as they get further away.
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Shutter Speed Left top: Allison Schmitt-Morris ‘19 runs past the West High sign in the front entry way, showing off her track skills to ther Intro duction to Newspaper students. Bottom right: Kara Wagenknecht ‘19 jumps off the bench a the West High commons trying not to fall as she jumps, in the backround you can see the polls bhind the bench the hid the cafiteria entrance. Right: Sam Sunderland ‘19 jumps off the bench a the West High commons, in the backround you can see the empty trophy case et the entry of the art hallway.
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Aperature
Above: Emma, a 6th grader at Bourlog, looks off into the woods across from her house at deer off in the distance. Right: Best friends, Emma and Sydney, hold each others hands, bundled up in the below zero weather. Emma is a 6th grader at Bourlog and Syney is a 5th grader at Regina. 10 FEBRUARY 2016
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Perspective Above: My dog, Fred, looks out the windows across from the couch at deer wondering on the edge of the woods. Right: Emma, a 6th grader at Bourlog, climbs cautiously down the slick mud hill in the constructon zone near her house.
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Portraiture Left: Sydney, a 5th grader at Regina, catches snow on her tounge on a mud hill outside her friends house. Above: Sydney, a 5th grader at Regina, looks up at the camera while trying to crawl up the slick mud hill outside her friends house.
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Above: Sydney, a 5th grader at Regina, regains her balence after almost falling face first down the slick mud hill. 16 FEBRUARY 2016
Above: Best friends Emma and Sydney, hug eachother in the below zero weather trying to stay warm in the construction zone outside Emma’s house
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left: Posing by trees is fun, ecpeccially when there is snow. right: The main source of natural light in the school is th estairwells since the exterior wall acroos from the stairs is made of windows.
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Light Right: The sun shines throught a windows in the freshman wing. Since that is the newest section of the school it has the most windows and and they let the most light in. Above: The light shine through the window across from the stairs on to the walls on the third floor in the freshman wing.
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Free Form Above: the title page of the most recent west side story issue, the December issue.
Right: The direction of the camera is showing the direction you are suppose to pull it if there is a fire.
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Above: The letters on the west high a school sign proudly displayed ouside the little theatre. Left: The “C� on the Theatre West call board, the board is currently displaying the sign up for Marry Poppins.
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