1. Coverage ~ Organizations Goin’ Clubbin’! Making the most of your Clubs and Organizations coverage. Coverage ~ Clubs & Organizations

2. Coverage ~ Clubs & Organizations Organizations ~ Planning for great coverage First Steps… 1)Speak to your school’s Activities Director to get a complete list existing clubs. 2)Review the list and add any additional clubs/organizations/extracurriculars that your staff can think of. 3)Decide where group activities coverage will appear in your book; decide where group shots will appear – (on the spread, index, separate team/group shot section?) 4)Create “Yearbook Beats”: Divide the clubs among the yearbook staff members and make them responsible to know all the ins and outs (adviser, meeting times, members, events, etc.) of the clubs on their “Beat.”

3. Covering Organizations Activities, events & membership directory Joining Meeting Socializing Volunteering Fundraising Competing Initiating Group photos with complete identifications Coverage ~ Clubs & Organizations Organizations ~ Planning for great coverage

4. Coverage ~ Clubs & Organizations Organizations ~ Banding together.

5. If you devote a page to group shots, use a photo strip to spotlight some of the activities and individuals from the organizations shown in the group shots. Coverage ~ Clubs & Organizations Use photo strips to expand coverage.

6. Coverage ~ Clubs & Organizations Get creative with your group shots to help capture the club culture.

7. Coverage ~ Clubs & Organizations Do the research: Write coverage that captures what INSIDERS think is important or cool. Remember that the primary readers of a club page are the students in that club. This spread covers an ‘insider debate’ about which section of the band is best, while educating non- members about all the sections that make up the school band

8. Coverage ~ Clubs & Organizations Showing events from multiple clubs on one page makes for a dynamic spread that interests a larger group of your student body. Blending coverage of groups under one headline and one story, supplemented with secondary coverage, adds depth and color to each spread in the organizations section.

9. Coverage ~ Clubs & Organizations Be sure to commemorate the successes of the groups you cover

10. Be creative! Create spreads that capture the personality of each group. Coverage ~ Clubs & Organizations