HOMEWORK: Sample YRBK Page

1. Go to our publisher's (Walsworth) website and peruse ideas, themes, covers, inspiration...Spend a significant amount of time on this.

Click HERE for Walsworth's site. 

Then...

2. Find an image – a portrait, action shot, scene, etc. – FOR EACH SCHOOL SPORT/ACTIVITY that you want to be photographically recreated next year for the book.

3. Familiarize yourself with the ELEMENTS OF DESIGN for graphic design.  The following website is a good place to start:

4. SAMPLE YRBK PAGE: 
Sample Yearbook Page/ Photography/Sample Writing  (THE FUN STUFF!)  You are to use your creative abilities and make a sample yearbook spread!!  (A “spread” is two pages that face each other.)

First, choose a section – Classes, clubs, sports, community.  This should be the section you marked as your first choice on the first page of the application.

Second, narrow down the subject for your spread (for example, a person applying for Sports could easily take pictures of basketball/soccer this time of year, so doing a basketball or soccer spread would be ideal).

Third, take pictures you will need for that page and gather information for your article. You must have at least 12 pictures on your spread.  You must have captions to go with all pictures. (Who, What, When, Where, etc.) The following are examples of some types of pictures:

·      Candid shots of people who are unaware they are being photographed

·      Action shots, of people in motion (espec. for sports pages)

·      Posed individual portraits (for community, classes, or clubs. Sports may use this as a pic accompanying a quote OR for coaches)

·      A posed group portrait of at least 3 people, none of whom are YOU or your best friends.

Fourth, write a 1 paragraph article relating to your spread (ex. Classes section may write about “Homework Blues”; sports could be about the ’07-’08 Basketball season’s highlights, etc.) Use 3^rd  person objective & past tense.

Fifth, put all of your work together. You may choose to use MS Word, MS Publisher, Adobe Photoshop, or any other digital media that will allow you to consolidate pictures and text.

Sixth, print out both pages and attach them to your application with a paper clip. (The size of each page should be standard 8 ½ x11.)

HINT: Take a peek at last year’s yearbook and other yearbooks to get ideas for layouts!

You can also go to www.taylorpub.com for ideas and rules of layout design. HAVE FUN!! 

BE READY TO BE ASKED FOR SPECIFIC IDEAS ABOUT FONTS, PHOTO IDEAS, COLOR SCHEME CHOICES.