You devote countless hours to the yearbook — all while juggling class, sports, clubs and your friends at the same time. You lead a busy life, and we know you have stories. We want to hear them.
Consider the Student Voice area of walsworthyearbooks.com the place where you — the yearbook staffers everywhere — can come to exchange ideas, read posts and respond to topics.
So, sound off. You never know what you might learn.
This week's topic:
Summer of learning
Sadly, the always too-short summer is just about over. While the memories are still fresh, we want to know the five most important things you learned this year at your summer workshop.
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I learned:
*How to design spreads with tons of information to enhance the viewers experience
*How to encourage staff members to write more, and write better
*That creating a theme is not as hard as you think-using a dictionary for inspiration is key
*That it is best to get input from many people so that you can improve what you are doing
*And that story ideas can be created just by looking at magazine article titles
I learned:
*How to work with my staff members to come up with a variety of theme ideas
*About different design styles that can improve a spread
*How to tell if a picture is good quality
*That communicating with your staff is a great way of coming up with interesting ideas for the book
*That it is important to have a couple design elements that are similar throughout the book
I learned:
-the difference between a good yearbook and a great yearbook is that a great yearbook follows gut instinct and takes calculated risks.
-stories are in the details-a moment can tell a year.
-covers set the standard for the feel, tone and look of the book. Therefore a cover should not look out of place when compared to any spread within the book.
-there are other techniques to yearbook photography besides just point and shoot, such as long exposures.
-use other publications for ideas and examples but never blatantly copy the idea because amazing end results come from creative exploitation of an idea.