Did You Know.....

• Rolled film first appeared in 1884 thanks to the creator of the Kodak cameras, George Eastman
• Photography is derived from the Greek words photos which means light and graphein which means to draw
• Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre invented the first practical photography process called daguerreotype

I've hit a snag

So I'm having some troubles with my essential questions partly because I haven't exactly figured out what I want to do for my actual project. Like I kind of wanted to organize a gallery kind of thing, but I don't see that as having anything to do with my project. So I don't know. If anyone has any ideas that could possibly help me, much appriciated.

Look what you can get down when you set your mind to it

So I did switch my topic. My project is now going to be on photography and I'm thinking I'm going to stick with Macrophotography and probably water shots. I'm working on where I'm going to go with this because I kind of need my essential question still. But just within today, I got my new collage done as well as my key terms and I have a good list of sites that I need to turn into my webliography.

Let the "What? Why?"s fly

So yesterday at parent teacher conferences, my mom talked to Mrs. Savido about my graduation project. Now they both support my idea but don't know what the "Wow" factor is and honestly, neither do I after thinking about it all day. I now see why everyone was confused about were I was going with it cause now I realize that I didn't either.

Now this is were the "What? Why?"s come in.

I'm thinking I want to go back to the photography thing because I thought about that one a lot yesterday too. I'm not saying I'm switching to it thought until AFTER I talk to Mrs. Savido. I realize this means going back to the beginning and doing everything all over again, but if I do switch, then I'm willing to do that partly because I would have to.

Essential Question

I've only come up with two ways to phrase this question, but both ways sound like they aren't enough to me. The one is "How does one get a story with illustrations published?" while the other one is "What is the best way to modernize a fairy tale and get it published?" Either way, it doesn't sound good and it doesn't seem like enough.

Week 4

It's hard to believe that it's already week four but that's not the point of this post. We're suppose to talk about how we spent our class time today and something that we learned about our topic and that's what I intend to do.

For how I spent my class time, I looked at some of the sites that I already found. A lot of them are about what you have to do in order to get published because I was having trouble understanding that whole concept for a while. I'm still a bit confused about that but I have a better understanding of it now.

A lot of it is just about how if you don't have an agent and you send your manuscript directly to a publisher, more than likely it won't be read because it will end up in the "slush pile". What a slush pile is, it's pretty much the manuscripts that are sent to them by unpublished authors or authors without representation of an agent. In the end, if someone wanted to get published, it's easier to get a literary agent but it's not impossible to get published without one you just have to do your research to find the right place to send it to.

I also learned that this is going to cost a lot of money if I do get the chance to send it to a publisher and they say they are going to publish it. I'm sure, even with an agent, it would still cost a pretty penny.

Looking for stuff

So I started trying to look up student writers to see if I could find anything about people modernizing fairy tales but my search has come to a dead end. There are like tons of pages with tons of irrelevant links.

With key terms, I'm stuck. I have three words and I can't think of any more and their due on Friday. AHH.

There's not really any more development about where I'm at with my project other than that.