sweetpeasmom
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Post by sweetpeasmom on May 27, 2015 23:53:57 GMT
I was on the yearbook staff in high school, editor my Senior year. So I have some expectations for a published yearbook. I look at the ones my kids bring home and they just make me cringe. I understand they are young and all but there are some basic design rules to follow. They squeeze so many pictures on a page that it's hard to see who's in them. I'm guessing they have a page amount to keep it to and want to make sure they can cover as much as possible.
Oh well, they are good memories for them and I guess that is what counts. My son's book cover is actually pretty decent this year.
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SabrinaP
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Post by SabrinaP on May 27, 2015 23:58:51 GMT
Our elementary used to be that way, but a different teacher took it over and it is much better. We have 5 6th graders that help her design the book, but she picks the templates and backgrounds and the 6th graders take pictures and load pictures into the templates.
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Post by misadventurous on May 28, 2015 0:23:53 GMT
I was on the yearbook staff in high school as well. My oldest is in 1st grade so this is the first time I will have seen a yearbook in (a ridiculously large number of) years. I kind of assumed that they would be really slickly produced these days, given the era of photobooks and templates and all. Back in my day, we had to-scale sheets of gridded paper that we drew our layouts on and had to submit physical photos with crop marks on them.
I'm guessing the fact that with digital photos and with many smart phones having decent cameras, there are probably thousands of photos to choose from. That would make it way more difficult to narrow them down and easier to try to include everyone, leading to overly busy pages. In my high school, we had a few yearbook photographers with film SLRs, so our selection of photos was pretty limited.
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Post by underwatermama on May 28, 2015 0:31:31 GMT
Ours used templates for it.
Our 6-12 school also uses a template and whoa, it is a busy, busy book. They try to get three photos of each student in the book so it needs to have a lot of photos per page in order to keep the book from being huge and costly.
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sweetpeasmom
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Post by sweetpeasmom on May 28, 2015 0:34:40 GMT
misadventurous - sounds like we came from the same time. How I miss my picas  . Drawing the initial layout, determining where the copy would go, creating a catchy title, choosing the photos. Then pasting them up and using the cropping ruler (you know that nifty slider thingy that you can make a square or rectangle). Then you transferred it all to the carbon copy layout. Yes, things are pretty slick. But I'm not sure what they are using in the lower schools. |
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Post by Peal on May 28, 2015 0:51:49 GMT
I was on Yearbook staff as well. A lot depends on how good the advisory is I think. And I also don't think yearbooks are nearly as popular as they used to be. In my DS's first high school they sold very few books and had a really hard time getting seniors to submit photos so a lot of kids just weren't in the yearbooks. I think I care more about my kids getting a yearbook than they do.
DS got his yearbook two weeks ago and there is almost no copy at all. Just pictures and maybe a club name. It kind of made me sad.
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Post by icedcoffee14 on May 28, 2015 1:06:23 GMT
My daughters elementary school ones were pretty crowded and some pics I just shook my head at wondering who thought the backs of kids heads at an assembly looked ok for a yearbook photo. I thought maybe middle school would be better but not so much. Now most pics are of about 30 kids on a 2x3 photo taken 30 feet away. You can see no one...lol.
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. Drawing the initial layout, determining where the copy would go, creating a catchy title, choosing the photos. Then pasting them up and using the cropping ruler (you know that nifty slider thingy that you can make a square or rectangle). Then you transferred it all to the carbon copy layout. 
