Present:  Madeline, Chad, Mrs. St John, Mrs. Willett

Learned to use guides to align elements.  Reviewed photo selection, editing.

Only the advisors (Mrs. Willett and Mrs. St John) were present.

Present:  Kasey, Madeline, Sam, Chad, renee, Ashley
Absent:  Devon,

Hi Editors:
Here's the latest recap I sent out to the 10th graders.

Just to let you know:  the 10th graders are writing an intro to themselves on their blogs this week.

Next week they will be posting a message on your blog!  (Devon--send me your intro!)

Please respond to them.  You have 4-5 10th graders in your group.

Keep track of any hours you spend responding to their posts.  It doesn't have to be anything long or fancy, just friendly.  I'm hoping that each group will build a relationship with their editor, so that they will feel comfortable contacting you for advice, and working together with you and the other members of the group.

This is a leadership position, and I feel that as editors, it is important to build a trusting relationship with your staff. 

If you have any questions, send me an email or talk to me.
Happy Halloween to all of you!

Here's a recap of yesterday's meeting, and some tech hints:

1.  If you didn't send me a pdf of your page at the end of class, please do it by the end of the school day today.

Some of you have shown me some apparent tech problems.  I called the tech line (1.800.328.2435) and found that you may have hidden elements (like extra text boxes) covering some of your other elements.

To check this, go to Edit, then Select, then text boxes.  It'll show you all of your text boxes.  Delete any that you are not using.

Any tech problems:  call the tech line.  I encourage you to do this--they have been always been helpful, and you'll get a solution to your problem right away.  Their phone number is listed above, and under "contacts" on our yearbook website.

Here are the people that I got pdfs from so far:

Kacey K., Leina'ala, Peter, Gabby, Renee, Sam and Cielle, CJ, Chad, and Mala'e

Kelly and Mia--I got yours, but the portraits haven't been flowed in.  Please flow in the portraits and resubmit.

Kaley and Kasey--I'm still sorting through your portraits.  I'll have it straightened out by the end of the day tomorrow--pls make a pdf tomorrow and send it to me.

If you are not listed above, send me a pdf of your pages by 3p.m. today.

2.  Your introduction to yourself is due Friday.

3.  Upload your 5 best Halloween photos by Monday, Nov 5th.

4.  Next class period:  Next Weds.

We'll be arranging feature page assignments.  On the Wiki, please indicate which feature is your first and second choice.  I'll make every effort to give you your first choice, so let me know what it is.

Finally, as we wrap up this unit, and you'd like some help from me, I can meet you in the Ideas lab on Mondays after school, or D days at lunch.  Let me know that you'd like to meet.

Take care, and be safe as you go out tonight--

Mrs. St John

Present:  Kasey, Madeline, Chad, Renee, Nick, Sam
Absent:  Devon, Mala'e, Ashley, Quinn

The Japanese exchange students came to this meeting.  Kasey T. interviewed them and will write up the story.  Nick Petersen too their photos.

Present:  Devon, Madeline, Ashley, Quinn, Renee, Kasey, Mala'e, Chad

Hi Yearbook Staff:

The new due date for your page layout is Oct. 19, 2012.

Here are the additional guidelines that we came up with in class:

Captions:  
Make every caption a full sentence.  Add information that you can't get from just looking at the photo.
Left justify the caption, and keep them with the boundaries of the photo.
Keep the caption in close proximity to the photo it is talking about.
Add the order of names (left to right, top to bottom, clockwise)
Include just the facts
    Avoid editorializing (remove adjectives, verbs of judgment)
Name the people in the photo

Cropping:
Avoid cutting people’s arms, bodies, heads

Color of banner behind headline--alternates
    First grade—Chilly Blue
    Second grade—Paprika

    Color of stroke matches color of banner

 

Need extra help on anything?  I'll be here all day on D Days--let me know if you'd like to meet.

I'll be on the field on the homecoming game if you'd like some help with taking action photos.

If D day doesn't work for you, contact me and we can arrange another meeting time after school.

Thanks again for all your hard work and input!

Best wishes,

Mrs. St John

 

Present:  Ashley, Devon, Madeline, Quinn, Mrs. St John
Reporter:  Ashley
We went through Junior Kindergarden - Faculty and Staff
                                    and
Went through photos on Yearbook Avenue Website
Aviana
Cameron Green
Mara A's Photo
Font:
Only first letter caps
Left side- Calm - 48 size
Right side- class of (lowercase) and font: Maximo- 48 size and bold
Couple picas above the photo boxes
Text on outside of page- Maximo size 20 for quote
Unicis Light 12
Page Numbers:
Ensure it is locked
Introductory Page Needed
Picture and Blurb
Same Borders
Colored Borders
Pictures need borders
Candids
Make Candids Horizontal
Remove Adjectives e.g. "superb secondgraders"
 
Spacing
Proximity
Delete white backgrounds and change placement
Locked Elements:
Dont unlock locked elements
Captions
Below or Next
no trap text
Names needed
 

Pages need to ensure there are quotes, the fonts are same, enough pictures, " horizontally- straight"  text, ensure their names are all added...
Flowers are deleted.  
 

Dates for Senior Section:  Pages 50-71
Devon Franke, Senior Editor

Target Date
Job Description

ASAP
Announce deadline for submitting informal photos, and or quotes.(pls put me in the copy line)
Announce senior ads?

Sept 30th

All Ace portraits dropped in

(Ace will drop off portrait disk this week)

Include Danny Braun from Portraits of Hawaii school portraits

Oct. 15th

Deadline for submitting other informal photos

Oct. 30th

All photos dropped into portrait pages

Nov. 5th

Concepts for senior features (pp. 69-71) finalized. (Tell me what you are planning for these pages—including the text of the questions, or categories of superlatives, etc.)

Nov. 13th

All text finalized in portrait pages (names, quotes?, etc.)

Nov. 26th

Senior features (pp. 69-71) and divider finalized

Nov. 27-30

Senior advisors and possibly another senior editor review

Dec. 3 -7

Administration reviews

Dec. 10-15

Put in any revisions requested

Hi Editors:

As I was writing the guidelines down for the 10th grade staff, I want to suggest this small change.

From looking at last year's books and an issue of Entertainment weekly, I'm thinking:

font size 10 Unitus Light for names on portrait pages
Font size 9 Unitus Light for photo captions

The captions can be a little smaller than the names. Size 10 still looks quite large for a caption. If you want to compare the fonts, take a look at last year's finished book, and then compare it to the font in the yearbook program.  I'm suggesting this because there wasn't absolute consistency in last year's book:  sometimes Helvetica was used, sometimes Unitus light.

So, just make a note to yourself as we work on the pages.  Everything else from our last notes looks good!

Thanks all-
Mrs. St John