 Yearbook is a regular 4 credit course (that means it comes with a letter grade and percentage at the end). The expectation is that of any other course - you attend, you do the work assigned, learn a lotto try your best. The job of the Yearbook is to....Produce the YEARBOOK. This is a project that begins in September and goes through to the end of April. The job of the yearbook staff is to represent the school. It is a responsibility that I take very seriously. The yearbook is put together to represent the entire community. What was meaningful, what happened and what makes us home of the stars. This means being everywhere and involved with everything. Every fun classroom activity, sporting event, poetry slam, guest presentation, club, pancake breakfast, fashion show, dance, field trip or flash mob - we are there. This "homework" of this course is to capture these events, work together as a team to come up with a book that represents this community - and then of course we have to create the pages themselves. This involves make aspects - coming up with a theme for the book, brainstorming ways to make that theme meaningful, understanding the culture of the school, attendance of events, administering surveys, collecting grad write ups, creating spreads and organizing layouts. There are 2 main jobs of a yearbook staff member - photographer and designer. We use Nikon DSLRs to shoot high quality school photos. One aspect of your yearbook training is to learn how to use this equipment (and all of it's settings) so that you can take photos in and around the school. Yearbook photographers don't wander the halls aimlessly, but instead are sent to specific places. This often means after school sporting events, or visiting other teachers classes during your spares. Only the BEST of the BEST photos will be printed in the yearbook. Expectations are high. We will be using a program called Aperture, along with Adobe Photoshop, to process the photos to perfection. The second, and often more difficult component of the yearbook, is designing spreads in Adobe InDesign. We will spend time training and them working to create engaging layouts on the computer. This means photographing or designing digital elements, placing photos, headers, text, captions, folios etc. We will learn all about book layout and design, and work with our theme to create a visually stunning and meaningful yearbook. Training in InDesign requires a lot of time and patience. Often students are stronger in one of the two areas (photography or design) and will spend slightly more time in their stronger area. However, all students need to contribute to and demonstrate skills in both to be optimally successful in the course. The course runs in an X-Block - that means it is after school 2 days week for 75 minutes, from September to the End of April. The "homework" component involves attending events and classes to photograph, or working on spreads during your spare or after school. At the end of the course you will need to submit a portfolio of your work. If you contributed effectively to the yearbook this will not be additional work, but a showcase of what you contributed to the book. Being in the yearbook is less like a class, and more like a job. After the initial training, every staff member is working on a different assigned, each with deadlines that have to be met. Because the yearbook is a very expensive production and we work with professional publishers, these deadlines cannot be moved. Time management is crucial. It is an incredibly busy and incredibly rewarding experience. The yearbook is the perfect course for any one with amazing school spirit (wanting to represent the school), passionate about photography, interested in graphic design or thinking about a career in journalism (newspaper or magazine). It is not a good course for anyone who lacks self-motivation. The work is hard and a great yearbook has a phenomenal amount of hours put into it. We need team players who are willing to go above and beyond. If you are interested in the yearbook for next year and have a question (for example "but i'm on the basketball team...can I still join the yearbook?) - please send me an email becker_a@sd36.bc.ca OR if you know for certain you want to be part of the yearbook team next year - send me an email and let me know (or stop by and say hi in B206). For those incredibly dedicated and serious yearbook students for the 2012-2013, there MAY (emphasis on MAY, pending interest and approval) be an opportunity to go to Yearbook Training at Columbia University (Ivy league University in NYC) from June 24 - 29, 2012. This is not a cheap trip, but it is an amazing opportunity. If you are interested, please send me an email or stop by and ask me for more details. Add Comment Yearbook Survey's now closed 02/13/2012
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