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Title: The Program Works


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The Program Works
Coverage
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Coverage A new approach to an old topic.
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What goes in a yearbook?
  • Big events
  • Class portraits
  • Sports
  • Organizations
  • Academics

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What makes a yearbook different year to year?
  • Decisions made about what to cover
  • How events and topics are covered

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Make your yearbook a record of the year.
  • Cover 12 months by selecting certain summer
    events
  • Cover students lives inside and outside of the
    school day

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How to divide a yearbook.
  • Traditional yearbook sections include
  • Student Life
  • Academics
  • Sports
  • Clubs Organizations
  • People
  • Ads
  • Index

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How much space for each section?
  • Student Life 25
  • Academics 12
  • Sports 18
  • Clubs Organizations 12 15
  • People 25 30
  • Plus Theme pages, ads and the index

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How much space for each section?
  • Example
  • Book size 240 pages
  • Theme pages
  • Title page 1
  • Opening 4
  • Student life divider 2
  • Academics divider 2
  • Sports divider 2
  • Clubs and organizations divider 2
  • People divider 2
  • Ads and index divider 2
  • Closing 3

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How much space for each section?
  • Example
  • Theme pages total 20 pages
  • Subtract that from 240, leaving 220 pages

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How much space for each section?
  • Example
  • Other pages removed from the percentages
  • Ads 30 pages
  • Index 6 pages
  • This leaves 184 pages for content

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How much space for each section?
  • Example
  • Using the percentages given, figure the number of
    pages per section. Youll have to round up or
    down to even numbers since sections are done in
    double-page spreads.
  • Student life 184 x 25 46 pages
  • Academics 184 x 12 22 pages
  • Sports 184 x 18 34 pages
  • Clubs and Organizations 184 x 12 22 pages
  • People 184 x 30 56 pages
  • Total 180
  • This leaves you four pages to add to a section as
    needed.

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How much space for each section?
  • Example
  • But these percentages are just guidelines. Apply
    the formula to your schools unique situation.
    Examples may be
  • No clubs?
  • A high percentage of the students involved in
    sports?

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What goes into a section.
  • Student life is the most fun and flexible section
  • Contains big events such as homecoming, talent
    shows and dances
  • Contains everyday life activities such as what
    students wear, daily habits, living with siblings
    and the like
  • Contains spreads on issues, both fun and serious
    such as teen-age dating, community service,
    having to work

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What goes into a section.
  • Clubs and Organizations is the record of the
    people involved in these groups
  • Can be club by club, perhaps with a fast-fact bar
    about each club
  • Can be organized and covered by looking at
    similarities between clubs and grouping them
    together
  • Fundraising
  • Parties
  • Community service
  • Meetings
  • Field trips
  • Leadership

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What goes into a section.
  • Academics is the student life section of the
    yearbook
  • Should be interesting
  • Should be different year to year
  • Should cover the entire curriculum
  • Need not be organized by department or class
  • Can be covered in a variety of ways
  • Skills
  • Time (period by period, A and B days)
  • Topics including labs, hands-on activities,
    presentations, communication, experiments, field
    trips and others

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What goes into a section.
  • Sports is the section people read or ignore,
    requiring planning to get more people to read it
  • Cover all sports fairly
  • Show the tensions and competition of the sport
  • Arrange chronologically or by importance at your
    school
  • Dont cheerlead report the highs and the lows
    objectively
  • Even losing seasons have positives
  • A scoreboard is a must
  • Avoid sportuguese

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What goes into a section.
  • The people section is three sections in one
    seniors, underclass and faculty
  • Portraits in a solid panel
  • Stories and coverage that works in the limited
    space left by portraits
  • Surveys, profiles, quote boxes and other coverage

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How to plan placement.
  • Create your ladder diagram
  • First place theme and divider spreads on the
    chart
  • Leave content areas open until after
    brainstorming sessions

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Things to consider while planning coverage.
  • Feasibility of topics for specific deadlines
  • Which stories lend themselves to good action
    photos
  • Possible focus or angle of stories
  • Color and spot color placement on flats and
    signatures
  • Completing signatures

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Ways to brainstorm.
  • Considering important priorities
  • Creative section approaches

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Student Activity
  • BRAINSTORMING ONE
  • Ask the staff to make a list of the 20 most
    important priorities in each of their lives
    (ideas, issues, possessions, decisions, fashions,
    goals, etc.)

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Student Activity
  • BRAINSTORMING ONE
  • Expand the list to include the 20 most important
    matters in other teens lives

2
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Student Activity
  • BRAINSTORMING ONE
  • Expand the list again to include the 20 most
    important ideas to the school community

3
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Student Activity
  • BRAINSTORMING ONE
  • Group the answers in terms of which ones might go
    together, which ones are photographically
    possible and which ones make you think of
    possible secondary covers  a poll, a survey, a
    QA.

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Student Activity
  • BRAINSTORMING TWO
  • Ask each staff member to write each letter of the
    alphabet on a half page of paper. Give the
    students 30 seconds per letter to write down as
    many words as they can think of that start with
    that letter. Make it a competition for the most
    words and the most unique words.

1
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Student Activity
  • BRAINSTORMING TWO
  • Review the words and decide which might develop
    into
  • spread ideas.

2
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Student Activity
  • BRAINSTORMING THREE
  • Divide into groups and take a walking tour of the
    school. Make a list of what each staff member
    observes. Have one student act as a tour guide
    and point out what things she or he knows about
    the school. Consider repeating the activity in
    the schools neighborhood and hangouts.

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Student Activity
  • BRAINSTORMING FOUR
  • Make a list of possessions or experiences that
    cost 5, 50 or 500. Discuss how they fit into a
    students life.

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Student Activity
  • BRAINSTORMING FIVE
  • Ask staff members to make lists of things that
    drive them crazy, make them happy and make them
    mad. Talk about how these ideas can be developed
    into content for the book.

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Student Activity
  • BRAINSTORMING SIX
  • Develop a list of incomplete sentences that
    students could complete and expand on
  • I was most scared when
  • I was happiest when
  • I was most surprised when
  • I was proudest when

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Student Activity
  • BRAINSTORMING SEVEN
  • Look for unique ways to cover a section and then
    come up with 10 or more spread ideas for that
    section.

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Student Activity
  • Putting Together the Ladder Diagram
  • Take all the ideas youve developed and organize
    them by the section of the book.

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Student Activity
  • Putting Together the Ladder Diagram
  • Make a list of potential story angles, action
    photography and possible secondary coverage for
    each spread.

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Student Activity
  • Putting Together the Ladder Diagram
  • 3. Organize the spreads in the order they will
    appear in the book and put them on your ladder.
    Think about when the staff could complete a
    spread so signatures can be completed.

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Student Activity
  • Putting Together the Ladder Diagram
  • 4. Double check the ladder to make sure you
    havent left out an important event, group or
    team and to make sure it is a 12-month ladder.
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