YEARBOOK THEME/DESIGN ASSIGNMENT

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 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. AS WE WILL NOT BE USING JOSTEN'S NEXT YEAR, WE WILL BE CREATING THESE PAGES IN CANVA. 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: Staff will complete all of the following ELEMENTS in Canva and EXPORT them as JPEGS to the BLUE DRIVE NEXT YEARS THEME FOLDER.

CREATING THE PAGES:

Each student will need to create new new pages on Canva. Save your pages with your name: "LASTNAME_ACADEMICS_PAGE," "LASTNAME_SPORTS_PAGE", etc. You are now ready to begin creating your pages.

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:

  1. 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 2025 on it. This should establish your theme and how it will be addressed visually. USE ANY RESOURCES that you must to create this cover. REMEMBER: A COVER IS FRONT AND BACK!
  2. A DIVIDER PAGE: This is traditionally THE theme page in a Yearbook, showing the Table of Contents for a particular section of the book. This should SCREAM your theme to viewers, showing most, if not all, of the theme elements used in the book.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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?

THE PRESENTATION OF YOUR THEME: This year, we have two Yearbook classes and we need to be able to present all of our ideas to both classes. This being the case, please put together a CANVA PRESENTATION that demonstrates all of the information listed above, so that your presentation can be seen and understood by the other class. Here is an example of the proper format for these pages:

Notice that there is a slide for the divider page that shows all of the page elements that are on the page and how they relate to your THEME. Make sure that you have separate slides for each of your pages and that you DEMONSTRATE each element listed above, describing how the elements fit into your THEME. As you will not be there to show this to the other class, you will need to make sure that you COVER EVERTHING in your presentation!

DUE DATE:

We have had deadlines along the way for the last month on this project. Make sure that you have sent or shared your FINAL PRESENTATION FILES from Canva to Mr. B. before Presentation Day, so that the presentation is ready for your delivery in class.

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.

PAGES/COVER will be graded as follows:

  • Well thought out and demonstrated THEME= 25 points.
  • PAGE/COVER includeS all required elements and layouts:= 25

DEMONSTRATING YOUR IDEAS TO THE CLASS: We will be having a presentation of these materials near the end of the school year to help us decide the ideas for next year's book.