Yearbook Ambassador Assignment

BACKGROUND: Our THEME this year is "PORTRAITS", which, to be a successful theme, must include a number of excellent photographic portraits, but also lots of written "portraits" of the various students in our school. To that end, we will be conducting a series of "Ambassador" assignments.

BEFORE YOU START: You will be selecting an HHS Student and gathering photographs and information from that person over the next week. Here are the rules for your selection:

  1. The student you select must be in YOUR GRADE.
  2. The student you select must NOT be a football player, student council member or a volleyball player.
  3. The student you select should be someone that you know and would be comfortable interviewing and photographing.
  4. The student you select should NOT be a member of yearbook staff.
  5. The student you select should not be selected by any other yearbook staff for this assignment.
  6. It would be VERY HELPFUL if your selected person was a student "portrait story" that could be included on one of your upcoming yearbook pages.

THE ASSIGNMENT: When you have selected your student, you will be responsible for doing the following:

  1. Conducting an in-depth interview with your subject. Your goal is to discover or uncover areas of interest that are not generally known about your subject, then gather details regarding those areas. AT A MINIMUM your interview should answer all of the questions WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY AND HOW about that person and their areas of interest.
  2. Take AT LEAST FOUR QUALITY portrait photographs of your subject, preferably demonstrating their personality and their areas of interest.
  3. Write a ONE PARAGRAPH story, as outlined in the "Captions in Depth" Slideshow, that tells the story of your subject and their interests, suitable for using on a yearbook page.
  4. Ask your subject if they have purchased or will be interested in purchasing a yearbook this year, explain to the subject that if they purchase now, they can receive their yearbook for only 50.00 with free personalization.
  5. Ask your subject if they know anyone that might be willing to support the yearbook program by purchasing a yearbook business ad (including Senior Baby Ads, if the subject is a Senior.)

GRADING (100 point assignment):

  • Quality paragraph and story regarding your subject= 50 points.
  • 4 quality photographs regarding your subject= 50 points.