BACKGROUND:
We have been working on creating our yearbook for most of this year and the end is finally in sight. Now, we need to start working on ideas for the book next year.
That being the case, I would like EVERY yearbook student to begin working on a THEME and LAYOUT for the book for the next year. You will need to do this if you are returning to Yearbook next year or not. You will be creating a number of pages and layouts that match your theme in yearbookavenue.com. We will be presenting all of these layouts in class and voting on them. The winning design/theme will be used for next year's book.
PLANNING THEME: By APRIL 4, 2023, please have all of the following ELEMENTS completed as PRACTICE PAGES in YearbookAvenue.com.
CREATING THE PAGES:
Each student will need to create new PRACTICE PAGES on yearbookavenue.com.
To make your pages, simply log in to yearbookavenue.com and select CREATE>
PAGE DESIGN from the home page menu. Once the blank page loads, pull down the menu and click SAVE AS PRACTICE PAGE and save your pages with your name: "LASTNAME_ACADEMICS_PAGE," "LASTNAME_SPORTS_PAGE", etc. You are now ready to begin creating
your page.
THE THEME: You
are responsible for coming up with a THEME for the yearbook. The theme would be carried throughout the book, holding pages and layouts together.
RESOURCES: You can use ANY RESOURCES at your disposal (ESPECIALLY LOOKBOOKS, and other yearbooks, if you wish) create vibrant and interesting yearbook pages with a tightly integrated theme.
THE LAYOUT OF THE BOOK: You have free rein to create your book in any way that you wish, you could do chronological, a seasonal book, a subject book, you name it.
THE NECESSARY PAGES: Here are the pages that a required for this assignment. You can do more if you wish:
- A MOCK-UP OF THE COVER OF THE BOOK: This page will be your idea for the design of the cover of the book, and must contain the words "THE HIGHLANDER" and 2024 on it. This should establish your theme and how it will be addressed visually. USE ANY RESOURCES that you must to create this cover, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND using CANVA, an easy way to use graphical elements to create an image.
- A DIVIDER PAGE: This is traditionally THE theme page in a Yearbook, showing the Table of Contents for a section of the book. This should SCREAM your theme to viewers, showing most, if not all, of the theme elements used in the book.
- A SPORTS PAGE: I don't care what sport you pick. Using photographs from this year, put together a DOUBLE sports page in your theme, complete with captions, story, etc.
- AN ACADEMICS PAGE: Using photographs from this year, put together an ACADEMICS page that shows students and teachers working in a particular subject such as LANGUAGE ARTS, PHYS. ED. or demonstrates ALL of the classes for a particular teacher, either will be accepted.
- A SENIOR PHOTO BLOCK SAMPLE: Our senior photo pages always include a SENIOR PHOTO, STUDENT NAMES, A PERSONALITY PHOTO (sometimes a masked image, sometimes a set of personalized photos from the senior) AND A SENIOR QUOTE. You could add elements, if you wish, such as a signature, colors, shapes, etc. PLEASE DESIGN THIS SO THAT 3 OR 4 SENIOR PHOTO BLOCKS FIT ON ONE PAGE.
- ELEMENTS: Please add ALL of the following in your theme pages:
- FOLIOS: PLEASE INCORPORATE FOLIOS INTO YOUR SPORTS, ACADEMIC AND STUDENT LIFE PAGES! These are the little pictures that we use for student coverage. Feel free to be creative with these, they DO NOT have to be at the bottom of the page!
- DESIGN ELEMENTS: What creative and interesting design elements are you including to make these pages look unique to your theme AND NOT LOOK LIKE all of the books that we have done over the past three years?
- FONTS and COLORS: You can use any fonts and colors that you wish, but you should have a standard font for TITLES, TEXT, CAPTIONS, etc. Need a new font installed for yeabookavenue.com? See Mr. B.
- QUICK READS: This comes in the form of graphs, charts, surveys, number panels, etc. How should these look on your pages?
- PHOTOS: How will these be incorporated on the page? How does your design help make these elements look NEW, INTERESTING and EXCITING, without being the same old BLOCKS of PHOTOS that we have had for years?
- PAGE NUMBERS: How will these fit into the THEME of your book?
DUE DATE:
This assignment will be presented in class on April 4, 2023. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE TO WORK ON THIS!
GRADING: All students must complete this assignment, whether you will be here for Yearbook next year or not. EDITORS can put this together as a two person group project, if they wish.
The final products will be graded as follows:
- Well thought out and demonstrated THEME= 100 points.
- All pages included all required elements and layouts:= 50
points.
- Pages explained and demonstrated to class in presentation: 50 points
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