YEARBOOK Syllabus

UNIT
DESCRIPTION
DATES
WHAT IS A YEARBOOK?​
  • parts of the book
  • theme 
  • standards of the book
Aug. 17 - Aug. 21
ORGANIZATION
  • editors and head photographers
  • spreads
  • what needs to be done
Aug. 24 - 25
ETHICS
  • copyright, plagiarism, libel
  • current mistakes made by yearbooks
  • ethics when interviewing, writing and taking photos
Aug. 17 - 20
PHOTOGRAPHY
  • DSLR camera controls
  • practice in low light situations
  • rules of composition
  • candids
  • caption information
Aug. 24 - Sept. 10
DESIGN
  • parts of a layout
  • basic design rules
  • sidebar redesign
Sept. 11 - Sept. 16
BEAT PHOTOS
  • beat sign-up
  • beat assignment
  • beat sheet
Sept. 17 - Sept. 22
STORIES
  • interviews
  • question writing
  • leads
  • story draft
Sept. 23 - Oct. 2
SIDEBARS
  • assignment
  • information collection
  • putting together the sidebar
  • uploading photos and using InDesign in Stratus
Oct. 19 - Oct. 28
HEADLINES
  • rules of headline writing
  • headline stylesheet
  • InDesign - typing headlines
Oct. 29 - Nov. 3
PHOTO SELECTION
  • review of candid rules and rules of composition
  • technical considerations of photos
  • spread considerations - face direction, variety in types of photos, etc.​
  • Photoshop correction
  • how to upload photos to Stratus
  • how to place photos properly
Nov. 4 - Nov. 20
CAPTIONS
  • writing rules
  • typing captions into InDesign
  • stylesheet
Nov. 30 - Dec. 7
EDITING
  • rubric for each phase of the spread
  • protocol for fixing other students' work
(D1) Dec. 8 - Dec. 18
(D2) Feb. 5 - 10
(D3) Feb. 11 - 17
PROOFS
  • review of standards for each part of the spread
  • protocol for fixing all parts of the page
(D1) Jan. 20 - Jan. 29
(D2) Feb. 18 - March 5
​(D3) March 22 - March 26
YEARBOOK THEME
  • find themes
  • find design ideas
  • design yearbook cover
  • redesign spread
March 29 - June 8