Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Best Covers

Top 40 Covers

1. Informal
2. Formal
3. Formal
9. Formal
10. Formal
15. Formal
18. Environmental
19. Formal
21. Environmental
22. Formal
23. Formal
24. Environmental
26. Formal
27. Formal
28. Environmental
29 (tie) Playboy, Formal
29 (tie) Fortune, Environmental
31. Environmental
32. Formal
35. Formal
36. Formal
37 (tie) Details Formal
37 (tie) National Geographic Environmental
37 (tie) TIME, Informal 
37 (tie) Glamour, Formal

Happy, Akins, Building

Happy


Building


Akins

Monday, February 14, 2011

Elements of Yearbooks and Notes

10 Elements
  1. a good cover
  2. many pictures
  3. different fonting and sizing
  4. quotes/sayings
  5. fun topics to talk about
  6. other stuff out of school
  7. they show the teachers alot
  8. lots of memories
  9. ads
  10. many old stories
 How its made:
  • The Cover is a separate piece and made out of cardboard.
         -its white and has a pretty design not so many things on it
         -the year
         -volume number
         -the name of the school
         -theme, infinite to keep going and never ending.
  •  In Sheets. They use a thicker sheet and glue it to the book to hold it together
         -Table of Contents
         -titles
         -pictures
         -designs
         -Theme
  •  Back in Sheets,
        -The same as the beggining
        -Pictures
        -Theme
  •  Next Page
       -High school Name
       -Address
       -All info of the school
       -A picture
       -Explain what there doing with the one big picture
       - more small pictures of school spirit
       - population
       -Theme
       -Left page, page one is always blank
  • Spread, two pages side by side that work together. 
        -Explain the theme
        -Major Higlight
        -Important pictures
        -Captions
  • Divider Page, meant to divide the sections away from each other.
         -They are eight sections
            1. Theme, Infinite
            2. Lifestyles, expansive
            3. Clubs, Boundless opportunities
            4. Academics, indefinately thinking
            5. Sports, unlimited endurance
            6. People, Living Parrallel lives
            7. Ads, Countless memories
            8. Closing, Infinite
       -Big Picture
       -big caption
       -Quotes
       -More pictures
       -Color dividers
  •   Back Spread
       - Big Pictures
       - caption
       - Explains how the book was made and all the info about it.
       -Colophon, describes how the book was made, the theme, pictures, fonts.
       -Staff box
  • Senior Ads and Ads
      -Index
      -Team Pictures
      -Random pictures
      -Quotes
      -Last ending theme
      -Average 40 pages, $300-500 = $16,000
      -65 x 1500-1800 = $104,00
      -Totals = 120,000
  • Akins
   - 25 x $250 = $6250
   -450 x $60 = =$27000
   -Total = $33,000

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Magazine cover and catch up

Magazine Cover

a.) Have you taken Happy, Akins, Building? Yes.
b.) Have you completed the assignment called Welcome Back? Yes.
c.) Have you done the blog called Portrait/Self-Portrait tips and ideas?yes.
d.) Have you taken Portrait/Self-Portrait photos with my camera or yours and turned in the film? Yes.

Magazine Cover Intro

1. Familiar recognition from issue to issue (that’s the brand)

2. Emotionally irresistible (that’s the image’s appeal)

3. Arousing curiosity (that’s to pull the casual glancer in)

4. Intellectually stimulating, interesting (that’s to promise benefits)

5. Efficient, fast, easy to scan (that’s showing off the service)