Sylvia Yancey Magazine Photos

Butterfield Trail Village Home to Many
A resident walks into the entrance of Butterfield Trail Village off of Joyce Boulevard Thursday afternoon.

Bridge Players Welcome
Sylvia Yancey plays bridge with other residents at Butterfield Trail Village weekly to pass the time.

Founding Fathers
Sylvia's husband, Truman Yancey, was on the committee that created Butterfield Trail Village, so the Yanceys knew the place they should live after retirement.

 

Home With the Yanceys
Sylvia and Truman Yancey live in an apartment in the Butterfield Trail Village retirement community.

Greetings
Sylvia Yancey created greeting cards for other residents of Butterfield Trail Village and displays her past work in a collage.

Tickling the Ivories
Sylvia Yancey plays piano multiple times a day to stay occupied.

Butterfield After Rain
Butterfield Trail Village is situated off Joyce Boulevard in Fayetteville.
Photo Illustration: Tamzen Tumlison

Yancey's Natural Habitat
Sylvia Yancey enjoys spending a majority of her time in front of her keyboard in her apartment.

Playing a Tune
Sylvia Yancey follows along with her sheet music Thursday afternoon.

Unfinished Paintings
Sylvia Yancey shows off one of her first paintings that she plans to finish soon.

Sylvia Yancey Magazine Slideshow

Reflection: 

     This project overall went the fastest. I completed a majority of it in one day, though that was not my ideal time frame. Acquiring the contact information for Sylvia Yancey was the most difficult/time-consuming part, and were I to do it all over again, I would have begun trying to get the information a lot sooner. I was not pleased with the time crunch I had, nor the lack of ability to interview more than one person. Again, if I were to do it again, I would have made it more clear that I needed multiple people for the interview, and I would have tried to go back multiple days for more rounded shots.
     The only technical difficulty I experienced was the lighting in some shots turning more yellow than in others. Otherwise, shooting was fairly easy, though there was not much subject matter to shoot. I noticed that it is much easier to document and present nonprofit organizations, as they eager to share their messages, whereas it is difficult to present one human being, because though they might like sharing their story, they aren’t trying to broadcast it.

Magazine Treatment

            The story I will be covering is the profile of Sylvia Yancey by Katherine Hunt. In the magazine, I feel this story would need around 5-10 photos, with at least one portrait, multiple daily action shots, and one location-establishing shot. To obtain these shots, I would follow Yancey around for a majority of a day or over the course of a few days. The main people I will have to contact for this project, apart from the author of the profile, is the Butterfield Village community staff, to see if they will allow me to attend their facilities and take photos, as well as permissions from Yancey herself and others that she is in contact with daily.
            My photographic plan is to spend nearly a day’s time with Yancey and photograph as needed during activities and such, while also having her pose for a portrait set. This will all be shot with my Canon Rebel T3i. The audio plan would be to have a brief interview discussing her time at the home as well as anything interesting from the actual article written. Potential stumbling blocks would be secondary interviewies not wanting to cooperate or permissions not being granted for those other than Yancey. For graphics apart from photos, I will use Trajan Pro as the font along with the color scheme of a white or gray background and Razorback red text.

Head Shots and Portraits

Caitlin Secrest, a senior at Ouachita Baptist University, poses near the Ouachita River for some potential head shots.

Group Living

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LifeSource Reflection Essay

In this multimedia project, I learned how difficult it is to work with indoor lighting that changes. For some photos, I'd have the ISO and shutter speed set just right for a certain direction I was facing, away from the windows, and then I'd turn around toward the windows to take a quick shot. The quick shot would never turn out well without a lot of time spent resetting the ISO, by which time, the shot opportunity would be lost. I also learned that it's better to have the subject talk for a while about one topic than to have them talk in short snippets about very specific topics. With short answers, it is harder to incorporate the subject's response into the final sound recording. With longer answers where the subject goes on from one topic to another on their own, it is easier to put together corresponding thoughts and full sentences to work with.

With this project I was a little bit too timid. Since I had more people to take photos of than previous projects, I felt a little more uncomfortable in that I didn't have time to warm up everyone for the camera. In the next project, I would have to get over that fear and start taking pictures from the get-go.

Multimedia projects like this are a good way to put together a news story and images. Written word or even video can't always tell the full story, because the emotions or images pass by quickly, or there is nothing to give you the visual you need to understand the story. With audio and photographs, though, feelings and activities are caught in a still, solid image. The audio gives meaning to the photographs, and the photographs give meaning to the audio.