(This one will be shorter than most.)
What I Know/ Have learned about my topic:
Before starting my senior project, I already knew that working on the yearbook was time-consuming, meticulous work. I never truly comprehended exactly how much effort it entailed until I was faced with a blank expectant yearbook, waiting to be graced with ideas. The main three elements you fill your yearbook with are stories, photos, and layouts. Layouts definitely take the most work. It’s a matter of picking a design that will appeal to the masses, and will also display the content with a creative edge. So far, I’ve learned that a theme is essential to planning your yearbook, and that it can define it. Each page needs to be engulfed in the theme, but also have slight variations so your annual does not become overly uniform. It pretty much will be a mountain of work; specifically, a mountain I have yet to begin to climb.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Blog Post 6
Haley
10-20-10
Blog Post 6
In my last post, I was celebrating the fact that I had finally decided on a cover for the yearbook. Since then I’ve been working on details for the inside of the book. In the process of looking for research for my research paper, I’ve been coming across a lot of good ideas for my yearbook. I’ve found page layouts that would be fairly simple to imitate, I’ve come up with phrases that suit the theme, I’ve ran across ideas that haven’t been done before in past yearbooks. I have a whole list of ideas to show Mrs. Rahn. I asked her when it would be best to go over it with her, and we haven’t gotten around to that yet. Hopefully that gets done soon. I also compiled a list of tasks and things I can complete for my senior project, but most of them involve discussion with Mrs. Rahn, too. So I really need to do that soon. Here are a few of the things on my list:
1. Begin browsing different page layouts (Check.)
2. Write stories as they occur. (I’ve been trying to work on that. Mostly, we can re-use stories from the newsletter and add to them if needed.)
3. Come up with phrases and titles that suit the theme. (That’s also in the works. I’m nowhere near finished with them, but I think I have a solid start. Most of them need to involve numbers to suit the theme, so I have phrases like “One Step Ahead” for track, and other stuff like that.)
4. Select main colors for the color scheme. (I think you pick around eight colors.)
5. Jordan Hall (my mentor) asked me to come up with a list of questions for him. So I should probably do that.
6. I should start a folder for articles that can be recycled and edited, and also include yearbook-worthy pictures as well.
7. I need to establish a list of people that will be on the staff.
8. I should also have pictures taken of me working on stuff. Are those supposed to be posed or candid?
Those aren’t all of the things on the list, but they’re definitely a start.
I need to figure out how to run the Josten’s website design, because in my research I make the argument that it is better than inDesign. I should probably know what I’m talking about in regards to that.
10-20-10
Blog Post 6
In my last post, I was celebrating the fact that I had finally decided on a cover for the yearbook. Since then I’ve been working on details for the inside of the book. In the process of looking for research for my research paper, I’ve been coming across a lot of good ideas for my yearbook. I’ve found page layouts that would be fairly simple to imitate, I’ve come up with phrases that suit the theme, I’ve ran across ideas that haven’t been done before in past yearbooks. I have a whole list of ideas to show Mrs. Rahn. I asked her when it would be best to go over it with her, and we haven’t gotten around to that yet. Hopefully that gets done soon. I also compiled a list of tasks and things I can complete for my senior project, but most of them involve discussion with Mrs. Rahn, too. So I really need to do that soon. Here are a few of the things on my list:
1. Begin browsing different page layouts (Check.)
2. Write stories as they occur. (I’ve been trying to work on that. Mostly, we can re-use stories from the newsletter and add to them if needed.)
3. Come up with phrases and titles that suit the theme. (That’s also in the works. I’m nowhere near finished with them, but I think I have a solid start. Most of them need to involve numbers to suit the theme, so I have phrases like “One Step Ahead” for track, and other stuff like that.)
4. Select main colors for the color scheme. (I think you pick around eight colors.)
5. Jordan Hall (my mentor) asked me to come up with a list of questions for him. So I should probably do that.
6. I should start a folder for articles that can be recycled and edited, and also include yearbook-worthy pictures as well.
7. I need to establish a list of people that will be on the staff.
8. I should also have pictures taken of me working on stuff. Are those supposed to be posed or candid?
Those aren’t all of the things on the list, but they’re definitely a start.
I need to figure out how to run the Josten’s website design, because in my research I make the argument that it is better than inDesign. I should probably know what I’m talking about in regards to that.
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