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Yearbook - Week 13: 4/20-4/31

Updated: Apr 22, 2020


Email Communication & eDesign: (2pts) Due Monday 4/20

Focus on evaluating and updating the following elements on your three pages: Main Headlines, Subheaders, and Body Copy to introduce the content on each page. Follow up with direct email communications to individual students to gain more information as needed. Include Mrs. Fisher on all emails.


Headlines

  • Primary headline grabs the viewer’s attention and connects to the spread content

  • Secondary headlines further define what is on each page

  • Subheaders support the overall message in the body copy

  • Present tense used

  • Effective placement and scale

  • All headlines are accurate, creative and set the appropriate mood for the spread

  • Design styles are consistent, attractive, and legible


Body Copy

  • Compelling language

  • Specific and factual

  • Organized and easy to follow

  • Strong quotes

  • Grammatically correct

  • Written in 3rd person

  • Avoid personal opinion unless provided in a direct quote


Email Communication and eDesign: Due Wednesday 4/22

Upload 5-10 more images to the library on eDesign that can be incorporated on your 3 assigned pages. Reference the links below:


Focus on evaluating and updating the following elements on your three pages: Photography, Captions, and Graphic Design. Follow up with direct email communications to individual students to gain more information as needed. Include Mrs. Fisher on all emails.


Photography

  • Sharply focused on center of interest

  • Proper tonal range, including consistent lighting, color and contrast throughout

  • Image fills the frame, eliminating distracting elements and empty space

  • Photographs creatively tell the story, with a variety of angles and perspectives

  • Emotion and action are compelling within each image

  • Edges are perfectly aligned within each page and across the entire spread

  • Student photographers represented

  • No dpi warnings (low resolution)


Captions

  • Descriptive and informative

  • Present tense used

  • People identified correctly with first and last name

  • Team photos begin with front row and end with back row

  • Grammatically correct

  • Design styles are consistent, attractive, and legible

  • All photographers given credit


Graphic Design

  • Elements fit exactly within the columns and edges are perfectly aligned

  • Dominant photo is at least twice as big as other elements and close to the center

  • Internal and external margins are precise and consistent, except for bleed photos

  • Captions touch edge photo and are positioned to appropriately identify the image

  • No more than two captions are stacked on top of one another

  • Body copy is to the outside of the spread, with a clear subheader

  • White space is used effectively on the outside of the spread and is not trapped

  • Design styles are consistent, attractive, and legible


Create a screenshot of each of your three individual pages to reflect on your most recent accomplishments in your next Classroom Forum post.



VOTE NOW!!! Due Thursday 4/23


Classroom Forum and Comments: (5pts) Due Friday 4/24

Create a new post in the Yearbook Classroom Forum titled, “Week 13: My Pages“ and add your screenshots.


PROGRESS - what new elements have you added to your three pages?

ISSUES - what problems are you facing or questions do you have currently with these pages?

GOALS - what will be your next steps to improve and work towards completing your pages?


Fine Arts Friday on Zoom! 4/24 - Add these items to your Activities Bingo Card!

Provide comments for one another beneath each screenshot to highlight the most successful elements and suggest areas for improvement.

Select one of the sessions below to attend a poetry workshop led by S.C. Says.

(Optional, but STRONGLY encouraged - you won't regret it)

Workshop #1 - 1:00pm

Zoom Meeting ID: 829 9857 8206 Password: 462479


Workshop #2 - 2:00pm

Zoom Meeting ID: 897 2376 3082

Password: 905133


Zoom Meeting ID:

Password:

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