Today, you will be creating a myvarsityyearbook.com page that reports the facts and opinions regarding an event, such as you might see in a newspaper.  Staff will be using cameras, interviewing, writing, captioning and designing their page, with the assistance of veteran staff members and editors. The page will be created using all of the elements of a sample yearbook page.

BOOT CAMP: The completion of this assignment will coincide with new staff members attending our boot camp sessions regarding:

1. Varsity Yearbook basics.
2. Interviewing.
3. Photography.
4. Final page creation and editing.

BACKGROUND:

We are about to start working on the development of our yearbook pages for our first deadline.  Many students appear to be unsure as to how to put pages together.  Although there are lots of resources to help show us the way, a little emulation exercise might be useful.  To that end, we will be copying the look of an award winning yearbook page design, using the layout of an award winning page and the colors, fonts, photographs and information of Highland High School.

THE TEACHERS:

We have a number of veterans in the Yearbook 2 class this year- Madison, Jaylene, Lacey and Mr. B. They will help you locate and begin your page and will show you how to upload and tag photos, how to add shapes, colors, text and images to pages and how to manipulate everything.

THE PAGE:

This is the BOOTCAMP page. For 14 years, ALL new staff have completed this page. It is a tradition. If you just want to do the project, complete this page. Your page must look EXACTLY like the one below in every way. Same poses, same layout, same text styles, same stripes, everything!

MAKING THE PAGE:  You will be creating a Ladder Page that has already been assigned to you.  You will start by putting together the elements of the page (including the poses of the people in the photographs!) that you have selected EXACTLY as it is shown above.  (Click on the image to bring up a larger version for details.)  You will be interviewing other staff members in the class regarding their "Fashion Style". You will also need to use your phone to photograph your subjects in poses and environments exactly like the ones shown in the original page.  In addition, make sure that you are ONLY USING the following page elements:

• Use appropriate fonts for Headlines and Sub-Heads.
• Use a smaller readable font for your body texts.
• Your photos and layouts should look as close to exactly like the original as possible!
• Photographs should be taken using camera phones or cameras of other staff or students/staff at the high school.
• "Fashion" interview should be included, exactly as laid out in the model pages.

INSTRUCTORS: Make sure you cover ALL of the following varsityyearbook tools with your new staff member:

• How to create and save your PAGE.
• How to upload and topic and tag all images. MAKE SURE THESE ARE ALL TOPICED AS BOOTCAMP_PHOTOS!
• How to create and color SHAPES on a page.
• How to create a TEXT box and how to modify text size, color, etc.
• How to create an IMAGE BOX, how to modify image shape, size, zoom, stroke, etc.
• How to SPELLCHECK a page to catch any typos.

You are also responsible for EDITING your page to be as close as possible to the original template. Check all layout elements, all stories, spellcheck, etc.

CREATING YOUR PAGE: Your page will be created in myvarsityyearbook.com as a LADDER PAGES. Mr. B. will grade your work.

DUE DATE: This assignment will be due at the end of class on MONDAY, AUGUST 26TH (maybe later, depending on our Zoom call on Friday!)