1. Period 3 Mr. Ambrose Room C114

2.  A photo album  A face book  A history book  A public record  The one book you’ll bring to college  The book you’ll show your kids  A salable – and expensive - product  A lasting memory of high school

3.  As you can see, yearbook is pretty important  We have a big responsibility to do a good job

4.  Publication ◦ Managing Page Production (144 full color pages) ◦ Writing ◦ Photography and Artwork ◦ Graphic Design and Layout  Business ◦ Managing Budget ($20,000) ◦ Selling Books ◦ Selling Ads ◦ Designing Ad Pages  Students can be involved in both elements

5.  Adult Support ◦ Mr. Ambrose, staff adviser ◦ Tom Keeley, publishing company representative  Student Leadership ◦ Editor-in-Chief: Katie Bowler ◦ Business Managers: Dan Costello & Grant Martignetti ◦ Other Veteran Staff Members:  Cara Boyer  Steven Center  Greg Johnson  Isabelle Kingsbury  Victoria McCart

6.  Introduction  Theme  Organization  Ladder Diagram

7.  Introductions  Advertising Goals  What we’ve done already

8.  Introductions  Report on visit to UConn summer camp  Anything else to add?

9.  What is it?  How can we use it? ◦ 2009 Yearbook

10.  Begin to think about developing your own personal design aesthetic.  Bring in one example of a graphic design that you think we could use as inspiration for design in this year’s book. ◦ Katie will begin the inspiration book tomorrow.

11.  Get into small groups to brainstorm your goals for this year’s yearbook ◦ Have one member of each group be a scribe ◦ We will continue with this tomorrow  If time allows, we can start getting our log in names for the course website, www.yearbookavenue.com. www.yearbookavenue.com ◦ By tomorrow’s class, we should all have these so we can begin to learn how to use the program that will create our yearbook.

12.  Make sure everyone has a log in  Begin organizing inspiration binder  Begin to develop and define our aesthetic  Learn some of the basics of the program  Share our goals