Blog Post 2

The question still stands: how do I make a yearbook in the summertime before school even starts? Well, I’ve been brainstorming and planning, and flipping through old yearbooks looking for inspiration. I still am looking forward to working on a yearbook that isn’t…mine (for lack of better term.) So on the brainstorming front, here’s a list of potential themes I came across: Just had to be there, Or something like that, Nothing ordinary about us, One size does not fit all, and Live it up. I haven’t officially picked a theme yet, and none of these particularly stand out to me as a theme I’d like to use.
I’m hoping to have a yearbook that isn’t as conventional as most. Yes, I’ll still have the standard content in it, but I’d like to include an innovative way of presenting the year. I don’t want it to be ordinary, since Rutland is not. I’d like to capture the different attitude Rutland has, and what sets it apart from other schools. As far as pictures go, I’d like them to be different too. Hopefully, they’ll be more candid than posed. I want to have some fun shots in there, like snapping a photo of the high school dancing crazy at prom, or a flash of the home crowd as they rise to their feet when a basket’s scored. The play cast goofing off as they are known to do, or the cheerleaders doing a stunt at a pep rally; the elementary students playing at recess, or crazy outfits at homecoming. Those are just some of the ideas for pictures floating around in my head.
The writing in the yearbook will cover normal topics, like sports and plays and homecoming and the like. I was thinking about the old Rambler Register the other day and I remembered the surveys being one of the first things the students flipped to when the papers were handed out. I’d like to continue the surveys this year if I can, even if they aren’t used in the newsletter. I think it’d be interesting to try and incorporate quotes from student surveys throughout the annual, to get a good feel of what life in Rutland is really like.
Another thing I ran across in old yearbooks were the pages dedicated to the senior class. One year, the class all made hilarious predictions on where they thought their fellow classmates would be in 10 years. Usually a few letters from the parents of the graduating class are included. That wouldn’t be a bad idea either. I had another random idea of having the graduating class write down in the last week of school what is going through theProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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minds, see if there’s anything yearbook worthy in that. I think doing one of those ideas would help liven up the annual.
That’s all I’ve got for now. Here’s hoping more ideas are on the way!