Cover needed!!

Okay, the pressure is on!
our first deadline is approaching in a few weeks and we will have to make some MAJOR decisions.
-THEME: selected
-COVER: created and examples given to class for feedback
-END SHEETS: created and examples given*remember only one colour but we can vary the colour saturation to give the illusion of multiple colours.

NEWSPAPER:
Mrs.McGregor is going to create the template for the newsletter and I will need 4 or so volunteers to help out. Some keener's or some students who are covering sports etc. It will take just a short time and you can submit electronically or on paper. These are all due on the third week of each month!

Monday!

Photographers:
Please get into groups of three. You will sign up to take photos on the Mondays in yearbook. Please remember that you are responsible for taking LOTS of photos in and outside of class. The most important aspect in a yearbook is the photographs and the content.
The cover and end sheets are due at the end of OCTOBER.
Sr boys soccer: who can take photos, organize a team shot and attend a game or two or at least get the stats.
-Amanda: video for cross country--to be shown at the Nov/Dec assembly. Someone to help edit.

Good morning, it is WED!!

Hi there. Today we will be going over the page ladders and the requirements for the pages. I have posted the page ladder to the staff and have changed some of the pages based on some requests.
How will we deliver this theme? We have a few ideas and we will again--look at the board and come up with a focus. Our quotes (we all agreed that we like them) will be a major part of the Intro pages for the
grades. Perhaps, through looking for great quotes we may zero in on a more specific theme. We will look over magazine layout and have an intro to Photo shop.

Good morning~

Good Morning!
Today we will try to get closer to choosing a theme and develop some skills and ideas for making great layouts. You should have brought newspaper clippings and ideas that we can share as a class. We will also be choosing the pages you would like to create and leftover pages will be assigned to you.


Five Things Sesame Street Can Teach Your Yearbook

Thanks for the idea Copyblogger, check out his Five Things Sesame Street Can Teach A Blogger.

1. Drive Your Book With Data – Every episode of Sesame Street is audience tested – so are most successful TV shows and movies. We have to audience test our yearbook to find out what they liked and didn’t like. This may be journalism, but we should also be learning marketing too. Do more of what they like and see if it raises your sales.

2. Be One of the People in the Neighborhood – Find out who are the big fish in every pond in your school. Who’s the drum major of the band, the basketball team captain, the NHS president. They are the kids who will buy a yearbook. Find out what they want to see in the yearbook. Ask them to help you sell yearbooks in their club or organization for a commission (percent off their yearbook).

3. Make it Fun – Sesame Street teaches the basics of math and reading with lots of fun for little kids. The old days of boring yearbooks with gray pages are over. Yearbooks must be in color and have lots of fun and interesting ideas in them. Strive to make every page of the yearbook as fun as possible.

4. Be Balanced – Sesame Street keeps it all balanced well. Short segments that seem random, but are actually well balanced to keep kids attention. Keep your book balanced between what you must cover and what the students want. Of course you have to have sports in the book, but if athletes aren’t buying the book, should 25 percent of the pages be devoted to them? Don’t just do what you’ve always done. This is not your parent’s yearbook anymore, they didn’t have Facebook to contend with.

5. Repeat, but With Style – Sesame Street knows you must repeat it, so they can learn it. But repetition can be boring. When you settle on a theme, don’t hammer it on every page so it gets boring. Spread it out, reuse theme items enough that they become familiar, but not boring.

Good Morning!

Good morning, today we will look at some celebrity images

and have fun trying to figure out who they are. The photographs are from High school and in some cases, elementary yearbooks.

You have had time to think about theme and we are off to a good start. Our goal is by next week to have a theme selected and pages organized for each group. 

We will discuss theme development and go over a useful PowerPoint on developing ideas for theme and theme layout and design.