Photography Overview

Objectives: Identify components of good photography; identify and demonstrate methods of cropping and improving photography; analyze photography

Today: Photo Guidelines overview
Continue tagging and sorting photos online. Each person should be signed in on yearbookave and have done work. Eliminate photos that are not compelling or fall in to one of the "bad photograph" categories.
Continue working with your group to begin organizing and outline your photos.

Monday, September 27

Today, everyone needs to continue working on uploading, tagging and sorting photos online! There are folders set up for each year, as well as some for different clubs. Photos that are doubles need to be deleted from the system.

This week, we will be spending time learning how to create pages and copping photos. You will be required to design a practice page.

Homework for Friday - bring in a baby picture for Katie!

Wednesday, September 22

Today, we will be working on different assignments.

Here are your options:
2 people to make and post flyers about how to upload photos
5-6 students finding and uploading photos

Same group - help me with page ladder and organization of the yearbook!

Finding & Uploading Photographs

Finding pictures for the yearbook is an on-going task. Your first step should be to check the hard drive of your computer. Search for photos to upload to yearbook ave.

There are also a lot of photos on the server. You can find them on my public folder or under Christiana Saunders' public folder.

How to sign onto the server:
1. On the desktop, go to "Go" in the top toolbar. Choose "Connect to Server."
2. Connect to afp://10.65.196.64
3. Sign in as a Guest and click connect
4. Join the "homdirs"and go under "faculty"
5. 99mccartneya
6. Go to public folder
7. CHS Pictures
To get to Christiana's photos, go to 2010 and look for Saunders. Her pictures will be in her public folder.


Once the photos are on yearbook ave, they will be in the Staff Inbox. You can also move photos from the Image Share into the Staff Inbox. From the Staff Inbox, TAG the photos. This will help us keep track of how many times each person appears in the yearbook! Also, begin organizing the photos based on what section of the yearbook they will appear. This will help us avoid using the same photo twice.

Keep taking pictures! You can upload them on your own to the imageshare website, or you can bring your camera in to school. The more pictures, the better the yearbook. :)

Monday, September 20

Today, you must finish your Yearbook Theme project!!

This is what you should have ready to present to the class tomorrow:
1. A one-page proposal explaining your theme and how it will appear throughout the main pages in the yearbook. Your theme should have visual and verbal elements.
2. A complete page ladder (this can be in pencil) that shows how you will organize and divide up the yearbook.
3. Sample pages: a title page, section dividers
4. A sketch of a two-tone cover, or your selection from the covers available.

See me for help! Don't get bogged down trying to figure out the website tools. All you need is a rough draft - a creative and unifying theme is what you should be working towards!

Yearbook Brainstorm - What should we highlight about CHS?

1. With a partner, answer the following questions on a sheet of loose leaf. Brainstorm whatever you can think of about CHS and about the Class of 2011. What makes your school unique? What makes your class unique? What makes you stand out?

• a school of independence and liberty
• a lot of freedom for students
• dual enrollment
• leave for lunch
• court room
• teacher as dean
• "Our school is unique because although we lack things like a real lunch room, a gym, or an auditorium, we make up for it by having other unique things that other schools don't have like no uniform, going out for lunch, and trips around the city. As the Class of 2011, I think we stand out because we get to improve upon the first graduating class and make it ten times better."
• "We are unique because we have a voice."
• "our class is the most unique because we are the most outgoing and that makes us stand out because every other class is quieter. our school is unique because both our faulculty and and student body work together to make the rules for the school. we stand out because our class is the most outgoing and involved, plus once we graduate half of our basketball team is going with us."
• " The thing that makes our class unique is that though we were not the first class we are able to learn from their mistakes. We have the ability to not follow in their footsteps ant critique what we think they did poorly at."

2. What makes Constitution High School unique and different? What made you decide to come to CHS? (Don’t feel pressured to give a cheesy answer.) Be honest – what do you and your peers believe that makes CHS different?

• small school, close student body
• brand-new school and building - clean and new
• students create their laws
• ideals of freedom and Freedom of Speech
• personalities
• history and America
• history and law
• small school, everyone knows each other, big family
• "our school is different from other schools because we have a student govt. that is for the most part run by the students. Also we had the ability to change our uniform, so the only uniform we really have is collared shirt. We also have a blocked schedule so we only have four classes. We also receive more credits than other schools do.  We are sponsored by various companies."

3. What events, people or clubs best characterize CHS? Why?

• debate team, mock trial and the courtroom
• student government that actually works so the students have a say
• track
• cheerleading - spirit
• football
• student gov't shows that everyone has their own ideas
• basketball - athetic
• Field Day
• Talent Show
• NHD
• student gov't - democracy, active citizenship and history
• presidential elections emphasize active citizenship
• " Events like when the mayor came, or when we dedicated our court room to Sandra Day O'Connor, shows how well known are school is and what we've accomplished."

4. What unique characteristics does your class display? What makes your class stand out? 

• mature
• active
• outgoing
• loud
• first class to make "AYP"
• smart
• talented
• creative
• energetic 
• We are the best, smartest and strongest class. 
• Washington DC trip
• Afghanistan project
• loud, silly, dumb, crazy, involved, smart, creative

 
5. What shared experiences has you class had? What memories stick out? 

• soph hop
• pep rally
• trips
• NHD
• the first time you were allowed to leave for lunch
• pep rally
• gym class
• Madhi's packets
• "We also have the memories of going to Ballard Spahr and shadowing lawyers."

6. Who are the most interesting people in your class? Why?

• Ishmael
• Shaq D
• Ian
• Nicole
• Dom
• Alexis
• Sameerah
• Shakeerah
• Chéry
• our school judges play a role in our law and decisions
• Dom Gilyard
• Sharde
• Tevora
• Hassaan
• Korrin
• Kris
• Eric
• Everybody is interesting in their own way.

2010 Yearbook Critique

Here are your responses for the 2010 Yearbook Critique. Keep these in mind as you design your theme and yearbook organization!

What I Like…

• 2010 class picture
• flashback to freshman year
• bright colors
• teachers’ senior photos
• baby pictures
• the design covers
• headlines on each page
• advisory pictures
• senior polls
• senior photos and quotes
• picture in front of NCC
• pictures of all the trips
• 9th grade class picture next to 12th grade class picture
• bold colors

What I Don’t Like…

• colors don’t match
• font
• few backgrounds
• not enough page numbers
• no captions
• unorganized
• don’t put the whole school in the seniors’ yearbook
• confusing to read names on baby pictures
• gray background on senior photos pages
• pictures don’t look organized
• only certain teachers have descriptions
• improve organization
• the blank spaces for the not-pictured seniors
• the cover
• upside down baby picture names

Ideas...

• Before and after pictures
• notes from parents
• student to student messages
• pollyana, oldies day
• fake an injury
• more autograph pages
• pictures of students’ old school pictures – compare students 9th grade to 12th grade
• more senior polls
• the name of the yearbook should match the theme of the yearbook
• more captions
• better font and captions for the baby pictures
• cover should match the inside
• teachers’ prom photos
• collage
• holiday, Halloween, party, costume pictures
• club pages need to be more inclusive and reflect who was in the club
• road trip theme
• club/organization pages need to be similar to one anoghter
• teachers’ baby pictures
• fun activity page
• names of people in certain clubs
• advisory pictures have to be way more organized
• include service learning
• bolder letters and colors

Brainstorming a Theme

Today, we are going to focus on concepts and themes for the yearbook. The #1 critique of the 2010 yearbook was that the colors and formats didn't match. In order to make the 2011 yearbook even better, we need to develop a theme that will continue throughout the book.

A yearbook theme can be developed through words, pictures and colors. We can use a quote or idea that continues throughout the book, and a color scheme that supports the mood and tone of the theme.

1. With a partner, answer the following questions on a sheet of loose leaf. Brainstorm whatever you can think of about CHS and about the Class of 2011. What makes your school unique? What makes your class unique? What makes you stand out?
2. What makes Constitution High School unique and different? What made you decide to come to CHS? (Don’t feel pressured to give a cheesy answer. Be honest – what do you and your peers believe that makes CHS different? 
3. What events, people or clubs best characterize CHS? Why? 
4. What unique characteristics does your class display? What makes your class stand out? 
5. What shared experiences has you class had? What memories stick out? 
6. Who are the most interesting people in your class? Why? 
7. What are some of your favorite memories at CHS?

After you have brainstormed, visit the following websites. Write down the ideas that you like!!!

View the powerpoint on this site. It goes along with the photocopies we went over today. The notes under the powerpoint explain the theme concepts. If you like a particular slide, write down the slide number.
http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~km196506/yearbook/resource_files/concept/07_Concept_files/v3_document.htm


Visit this website and look at actual themes from other yearbooks.
http://www.walsworthyearbooks.com/showcase/theme-gallery/
Write down ideas that you like, but keep in mind that we are somewhat limited in cover choices.

These websites are slightly dated, but they offer some good ideas for working with a verbal theme.
http://www.walsworthyearbooks.com/idea-file/7740/theme-concept/
http://www.walsworthyearbooks.com/idea-file/7700/theme-ideas-list/

Yearbook Ave - Orientation

Sign into the Jostens online website to explore the Yearbook program.

www.yearbookave.com
Year: 2011
Job Number: 17805


Amber, Alexis, Dom, Korin, Hong and Sameerah - see me about your passwords.

Once you are on the website, look around and test out some of the tools. You may also want to look through the pages gallery on the opening page to get more ideas for the yearbook.

Welcome to Yearbook!

Welcome to Yearbook! I am looking forward to creating an amazing Class of 2011 Yearbook with all of you!

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