Criteria....so far!

Please make sure that by the end of the week you have accomplished the following:

-sent me your link
-chosen a title and topic for your blog
-posted at least 2 videos
-insert at least 3 tabs
-include 4 links to other sites etc

Good morning

Today you will have this class to come up with the topic for your blog research. I will have you all sign in and we will go over setting up a good blog for all the research you will have.
We also have some side projects: You will be responsible to work in one or more of these areas.

EDS yearbook: Setting up and placing photographs
Seasonwood//media ad campaign: Blog creation, interviews, ads, information
NVSS Store:Brochure, posters, product description
Prom Insert:Photographs, grad photos, design layout. (4 pages)
END OF YEAR VIDEO: Prepare a video to show at the end of year

Yearbook WED

Good day,

Agenda:
Jacky will be setting up to take individual shots of yearbook students. These photos will be in the Yearbook staff page. She has created an excellent template and it will be exciting to see the end result.

Josh has created backgrounds for the page templates and has some suggestions about syncronizing all of the pages so that they are the same (includes moving photos)

The pages that should be ALMOST complete are:  just final edits when we get back from Christmas

-All grade intro pages: that is 3 two page spreads
-Grade 8
-Grade 9
-Grade 10
- Staff (Random staff)--have these templates even been made yet? what about placing the images?
did you decied about staff on the right side of page?
-Whole school random--TAKE LOTS OF PHOTOS get a cool quote
-Cheerleading football--did you call Wallaces? Get a quote from head chearleader and captain of football plus football stats...photos from Brandon P grandpa.
Track and Field//cross country--whichever one is complete

THIS INCLUDES ALL OF THE RANDOM PHOTOS....uh oh that means you had better have taken lots of photos..remmeber the assignments--the walk about and the random shots. PLEASE!!!! Remember ALL RANDOM PHOTOS NEED TO BE OF STUDENTS IN THE CORRECT GRADES.

I will be checking on your walk about photos today.

Grade intro pages: Carly has been working hard on these and NEEDS photos.
We need to keep track of what photos are used.

LAST but not least: missing links
Check on your photo page click on LINKS and see if you have any missing ones.

AD DESIGN: getting you ready for cool layouts

Hi, today we will go through a tutorial in ILLUSTRATOR: you can work in groups of 3.
Follow this link and begin the tutorial

 http://tutorialblog.org/how-to-create-a-cool-ad-for-any-product/

Also, pls post the magazine layout you liked if you have not yet. REMINDER*
photos are due Friday. (you may want to have them in your folder for WED)
Friday is a pro-d --the assignment called for 12 random shots of students around the school, it could also include objects etc.

Double block

Good morning, some of you have taken initiative and have borrowed cameras during lunch hour and break to take your candid photos. You will not find many during our yearbook block so be warned! you MUST find time for this assignment outside of regular class time.

Interesting photos can be found when students are hanging out at lunch, biking or boarding (however: today is a 'snow day' so you may have to be creative!

We are going to talk layout today and come up with a working template for each grade. Angela and Nicola have created one for each grade so now lets come up with something that will look like an article/ad to match our theme.

40 creative layouts
http://bestdesignoptions.com/?p=4076




Please create a blog on blogger.com and post a layout in the style that you are interested in for displaying your pages. Remember, either in an 'article' layout style or an AD layout style.

Candid Walkabout

Directions:  For this assignment you should shoot 12 good examples of a candid photograph of a person in action or a small group of people in action.  The photos must use proper composition technique, be well lit, with the proper color balance and be in focus or they do not count. 

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Double Block

Hello, today we will look at the cover and endsheets. We will critique and give suggestions and then send them. We will go over the Caption Cheat sheet (below)

We will discuss your notebooks and calendars and you will be given some time to finish off any needed phtoographs. On Monday, we will review the photos in folders and critique the work.

Yearbook scavenger hunt

YEARBOOK PHOTO SCAVENGER HUNT

When judging the images keep in mind that we are looking for the best Yearbook image. There might be a shot of a shoe that is just plain vs. an image taken from an interesting angle or perspective.

Photo Scavenger Hunt

Rules: Each of these pictures will have a point value assigned to them (all photos are marked out of 3) Creativity is encouraged. Think outside the box. The image should make someone say “that’s a cool shot!”

• The receptionist at the school _____

• A place where students hang out _____

• A brand new pencil _____

• A picture of someone who didn’t know they were being photographed _____

• A messy teacher’s desk _____

• A clean teacher’s desk _____

• A new teacher _____

• Something cool in science class _____

• A sleeping student _____

• Someone studying _____

• A picture of school spirit _____

• People laughing _____

• A photo from above looking down _____

• A photo looking up _____

• A happy moment _____

• A teacher with a student _____

• Friends hanging out _____

•          4 different cell phones ( one picture) _____

•         Fashion statements (clothes, piercing, tattoos etc) _______

Make sure 75% of the shots are portrait and 25% Landscape (turn the camera)

GET NAMES AND GRADES OF THE SUBJECTS (IF YOU DON’T YOU WILL HAVE TO FIND THEM ALL OVER AGAIN-LATER!!!) –label the files with the student names. I will check your folder for the assignment (MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ONE!!)

-This is due next week (Friday I will check your folders in the Y drive)

Please DELETE photos off of the camera that you use--after you place them into your folder
You may photoshop the photos but keep originals in case you loose them.

Good afternoon

You will be learning how to create templates, use the Friesens templates and upload images, re-size and save. The cover is almost complete and we are getting excited about the end sheets :)

10 Company Logos to Inspire Your Yearbook Cover

10 Company Logos to Inspire Your Yearbook Cover

STOP! Before you enlarge all those photos to fill your yearbook spread, watch this video!

STOP! Before you enlarge all those photos to fill your yearbook spread, watch this video!
The link below has great ideas for developing page and photo layouts. The links are simple logos designed to inspire.
10 Company Logos to Inspire Your Yearbook Cover

Wed: Double Block

Good morning, today we will discuss the chosen theme "text" and talk about how we can create grade pages with the above ideas. The cover and endsheets are due In a week and a half.  We need to see some print-outs so that we can vote and offer advice/opinions.
Some survey questions I found online:

Most Likely To. . .

• Be the next American Idol
• Be the newest GLEE cast member
• Have an exhibit at MOMA (Museum of Modern Art)
• Be on SYTYCD (So You Think You Can Dance)
• Be your friend on Facebook
• Own a sports team
• Be a millinaire before age 30
• Come back as a teacher at Your High School
• Write a best seller
• Compete in the Olympics
• Open an art/dance/martial arts studio
• Be on Last Comic Standing/America’s Next Top Model/Top Chef/Man VS Food
• Host a radio talk show

theme cover and end sheets example
  If cherishing your school memories is not enough reason to buy a yearbook, how about making a $1,700 profit? That’s how much Justin Bieber’s elementary school yearbook is going for on eBay! Read about ithere on the TorontoSun.com
Today we will:

• Create staff Mailboxes. This is a great way for staff members to communicate with each other and keep materials in a central location.
• Use your ladder and post it on the wall. It really can make things easier in the yearbook world. This helps prevent pages or topics falling through the cracks.
• Create a proof binder that has a print out of all the pages you submit. It is a great way to keep track of what you have done and still need to do. (Mrs.Pye will have and keep the binder. NEW PAGES will be printed in library.
• Create a yearbook finance binder that is separated in 3 parts - business ads,  parent ads, and book sales. This way all of your yearbook money information is in 1 spot. (Mrs.Pye will keep this binder)
  • • • • 1. • • • • 1. • • 1. • • • • • • 1. • • • • • • • 1. • • • • 1. • • 1. • • • • • • 1. • • • • • • • • 1. • • • • 1. • • 1. • • • • • • 1. • • • • • • • 1. • • • • 1. • • 1. • • • • • • 1. • • • • • MMake a style guide for each section that will include the layout style for that section, the type of headline to be used, and the style for copy and captions.                       
• • • Using Roughing-Its, have staff members use photos and copy from 
  • • magazines to mock-up double page spreads for each section of the yearbook.

Wed!

Understanding Layout and Design

layout is general term meaning the arrangement of headlines, copy, captions, photographs, and white space that forms a page/spread. Design is the process of creating a layout.

Yearbook Cover Ideas

Theme Ideas: (Some are really quite cheezy--but you get the idea!!)

1. Give us a Break
2. Membership has its Privileges
3. Look Who's Talking
4. That was Then, This is Now
5. Let's Start from Scratch
6. The Road Less Traveled
7. Where Everybody Knows Your Name
8. Turning Back the Pages of Time
9. We Make Looking Good Easy
10. Easier Said than Done
11. Walking to a Different Beat
12. Roll Out the Red Carpet
13. Showing Our True Colors
14. Together in the Middle of Nowhere
15. It's Not Over Until the Last Bell Rings
16. Take a Picture, It Lasts Longer
17. This Hour, This Day, This Month, This Year
18. You Had to Be There
19. Not Just Another Year
20. Organized Chaos
21. When I Was in High School
22. Luck Has Nothing to do With It
23. Unfolding Chapters
24. Let's Get Personal
25. Good Things Come in Small Packages
26. Off to a Wild Start
27. Caught in the Act
28. Talk of the Town
29. Great Expectations
30. Through the Sands of Time
31. Seems Only Like Yesterday When...
32. Every Picture Tells a Story
33. You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
34. Small Impressions, Big Impact
35. The Writing on the Wall
36. The Power of Expression
37. Remember When...?
38. This is Who We Are
39. Rough Diamonds
40. Games We Play
41. Tradition With a Twist
42. Where Do We Go from Here?
43. It's What We've Become
44. Race Against Time
45. Living the Legacy
46. Never Say Never
47. Reality Check
48. What's Done is Done
49. The Name Says it All
50. Visions Through Our Eyes

We have chosen our idea (concept and creation wise) but today we should narrow down our focus for how we will choose quotes for the pages and an overall feel or direction for the book.

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.

Yearbook 11/12

Welcome to the Yearbook course. This course is designed for mature, independent students who have a strong work ethic and who are dedicated to documenting the year. During the course of the term you will be introduced to a variety of new and interesting software programs.

This semester you will learn and use the following programs:

Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
Windows Movie Maker
Adobe InDesign
Online Applications

We will cover:

Yearbook Theme Development
Ad campaign
Basics of Good Photography
How to keep Organized
Layout and Page Creation
How to Write Captions
Journalism skills

You will be involved with creating the yearbook through documentation. You will also contriubte to a NVSS Vikes Weekly newsletter.