21st CENTURY LITERATURE
Reviewer for 2nd Semester | First Quarter Exam
Use of creative styles and techniques
in making a story
Makes use of accurate, well
researched information with the aim
to deliver a more in depth, personal
view of real life events.
Creation and distribution of reports
based on real life events “News
Making”
Credibility Artistic Merit
More on Documentaries
- Combines relevant facts when
creative writing
- Tell a story based in real life
- Has a message that the writer
want to deliver
News Article / News Paper
- Uses 5 W’s, 1 H (Where, What,
When, Who, Why and How)
- Sticks on facts only
- Focuses on delivery
information
- No opinions on news presented
Begins and end with indents itself
1
Tone of Delivery
It’s a part of a whole
Candy Diez, a human right defender
campaigning on various issues on
peace and conflicts. At present, she is
a part of an Asian Peacebuilders
Scholarship Program, a dual masters
program of Ateneo de Manila
University and the Philippines and the
University for Peace in Costa Rica.
- Candy Documented a stories
of victims and their families
relentless search for truth and
justice in Sri Lanka
- 21, 353 of disappearance of
abduction arbitrary arrest in Sri
Lanka.
“Silence encourages the tormentor,
never the tormented” - Elie Wiesel
“Leave no stone unturned” = Make all
things possible
“A Picture paints a Thousand Words”
Ezra Acayan on Documentation about
war on drugs in the Philippines (An
example of Thematic Photo Essay)
21st CENTURY LITERATURE
Reviewer for 2nd Semester | First Quarter Exam

A series of pictures that evokes an

emotion, conveys an idea or tells a
story
- Requires a combination of art
and journalism
- Image over words (Symbolism)
- May argue, challenge and/or
encourage
Essay: (Introduction ,Body and
Conclusion)
Came from the word Narrate
Tells a story through a sequence of
events or actions;presented
chronologically
EXAMPLE:
- A day in a life
- Process of making/cooking,
following a person,
- Transformation photos are
Losing weight, Metamorphism
Presents photos focused on a central
theme Tends to be about one type or
aspect of many places, things or
people (pets, plants, fruits, students,
etc.)
“PHOTOS ARE MORE ALIVE IF THERE
ARE PEOPLE IN THERE”
It adds to the dept and artistry
Variation (Orientation, perspectives,
background, angle shots, some
detailed, some portraits, some aerial
perspective)
Sequencing
The logical and creative sequence of
the photos is very important in
communicating the central idea of
photo essay
What's in the picture?
Provide information to convey context
and effectively evoke emotion.
text accompanying pictures,
artworks, or illustrations
Mini story that answer questions about
the photo
Brief catchy little of Caption
(Maximum of 5 words)
Explains or describes the picture
(DO NOT STATE THE OBVIOUS,
Maximum of 2 sentences)

Central Message / tells a story

Source of the picture and/or
What’s the story that you want to tell
photographer.
or the topic that you would like to
focus on