YEARBOOK FINAL PROJECT: SAMPLE PAGES for the 2014 theme.

BACKGROUND:

We now have our Theme for next year and it is BE________ (Stand Out). As our Final Project/Presentation, I will be asking each student to create a sample page on yearbookavenue.com that incorporates this theme and the concepts of the page you are being asked to create.

MAKE SURE YOU CREATE AND SAVE THESE PRACTICE PAGES ON THE 2014 YEARBOOK SITE SO THAT WE HAVE ACCESS TO OUR PHOTOGRAPHS!

PLEASE NOTE: This is NOT a "busy work" assignment. We geniunely need to test design layouts that fit our theme for next year to see if the theme is viable or not. Please do your very best to create an exciting and creative page given the rules listed!

TO START: Consider the theme of the yearbook and the page(s) that you have been assigned to create. Most of you have been given a page that you worked on this year. Feel free to reuse headlines, photos, etc. Review the RULES of the theme, then create a sample DOUBLE PAGE SPREAD that follows all of those rules.

THE PAGES:
STUDENT
PAGE TEMPLATE
Garcia Basketball Page
Brauher FFA Page
Riley Student life- Fashion Page
Hansen Drama Page
Runnels Senior Superlatives Page
Alexander Student life- Siblings Page
Dyer Staff Page
Hansen

Homecoming Page (your choice)
Blomgren Dating/Relationships
Maynard Remember When Page
Rigg Language Arts/ Math Pages (you get two different pages...)

CREATING THE PAGES:  Open up the PAGE DESIGNER. Create a NEW PRACTICE PAGE and save it as LASTNAME_SUBJECT, for instance: BURKHARD-FOOTBALL. (Alternately, you could open up last year's page and then SAVE AS A PRACTICE PAGE and modify the old version.)

PLEASE USE THE LOREM IPSUM GENERATOR TO FILL IN YOUR TEXT AND CAPTIONS!

REQUIREMENTS FOR YOUR SAMPLE PAGE:

  • Stand Out picture on each page
  • Cover:
    • Group Shot with stand outs
    • Be The Stand Out  Script font
  • Title:
    • Strip- uniform – same color as page – Horizontal
    • White titles
    • Indicator word- Big title little word
    • Same font as cover (KAUFMAN SCRIPT in yearbookavenue.com for now.)
  • Caption:
    • First initial. Last Name – Grade
    • Compliment Color Italic
  • Page Numbers:
    • Top left and bottom right
    • Just # by____
  • Page:
    • Double Column story
    • Alena’s  quotes boxes on cutouts
    • Cut out parts of pictures
  • Book sections:
    • Mug shots- senior first
    • Clubs
    • Academics
    • Sports
    • Student life
  • Seniors photos:
    • Faded background
  • Dividers:
    • Collages
    • Dictionary idea- in order with book, Strip on side
    • Follow "Be"
    • Color front
    • If we don’t cut out then fill with color
  • Fonts:
    • Script
    • Black subtitle
    • Story times 12
    • Subtitles 14
    • Title script fill strip
  • Layout:
    • Story two column
    • No wrap
    • Move between pages

QUESTIONS ABOUT LAYOUT AND DESIGN: See Dakota, Alena, Courtney, Michaela or another underclass staff member.

DUE DATE:

This assignment will be due during the finals period for your class. Seniors will have this due next Wednesday in class, underclassmen the week after.

A WORD OF WARNING: I expect some decent planning and thought and execution to go into the creation of these pages. My goal is to be able to USE these when we start next year! If you DO NOT FOLLOW THE RULES, you will FAIL this PROJECT.

PRESENTATION: Each student will present their pages and discuss all required elements with the class during our finals period.

GRADING: This will be graded according to the following rubric:

  • GRADING AREA

    THEME ELEMENT

    POINTS POSSIBLE

    POINTS

    TITLES

    Proper Title, Font, placement

    10

    Proper Title Stripe

    10

    TEXT/BODY

    Body/Story Text in Times New Roman 12 regular, 2 column story.

    10

    Captions in Times New Roman, 10 regular

    10

    Captions boxed with page color shade

    10

    PHOTOS

    Large background photo on page

    10

    Background photo highlighted and faded into proper color.

    10

    Collage photo effect on page

    10

    LAYOUT

    Balanced, professional looking layout of all elements.

    10

    EXTRAS

    Page number in proper location.

    10

    TOTAL POINTS     /100



    GRADING CRITERIA:

    • 8-10 points:  well executed element, ready for submission.

    • 6-7 points:  element present, but needs minor reworking to be ready for submission.

    • 4-5 points:  element present, needs to be major reworking to be ready for submission.

    • 1-3 points:  element present, but needs to be completely remade to be ready for submission.

    • 0 points:  element is not present.