Yearbook 101
What is the main purpose of a yearbook?
What is to document and preserve the memories, people, and events of the school year.
Should you take mostly posed photos or candid/action photos for yearbook?
What is Candid/action photos.
What is the text underneath or beside a photograph called?
What is a caption.
What do we call empty space intentionally left around design elements?
What is white space/negative space.
Which is better: "Did you like homecoming?" or "What was your favorite part of homecoming and why?"
What is "What was your favorite part of homecoming and why?"
What do we call the time a page must be completed or submitted?
What is Deadline
What camera setting controls how fast your shutter closes?
What is shutter speed.
True of False: Names always have to be in a caption?
What is false.
True or False: Every empty space on a yearbook page should be filled.
What is false.
What type of question usually gets better quotes: open-ended or yes/no questions?
What is open-ended questions.
What is a spread?
What is a page in the yearbook.
What does ISO control?
What is the camera sensor's sensitivity to light.
What are the 5 W's journalists often try to answer?
What is: Who, What, When, Where, and Why.
What does alignment mean in page design?
What is arranging elements so they visually line up with one another.
After interviewing someone, what information should you ALWAYS make sure you have?
What is name and grade.
What is a ladder in yearbook?
What is a ladder showing what content will appear on each page/spread of the yearbook.
You're photographing a basketball player running down the court. Should you use a faster or slower shutter speed to freeze the action?
What is faster shutter speed.
Which is better for yearbook writing: "The football team had a great season" or specific details, quotes, and examples from the season?
What is specific details, quotes, and examples.
Why should fonts and colors stay consistent throughout a yearbook?
What is to create a cohesive yearbook theme.
A student answers your question with "It was fun." What should you do next?
What is ask a follow up question.
Why should a yearbook include more than just sports and major school events?
What is because it should represent the experiences of the entire student body.
Name three things that can make a yearbook photo stronger.
What is: good lighting, clear focus, interesting composition, emotion, action, different angles
Why should you avoid writing captions such as "Students have fun at the pep rally"?
What is it's vague and tells the reader something they can already see.
What is wrong with using seven different fonts, five colors, random photo sizes, and text everywhere on one spread?
What is it creates visual clutter and lacks consistency.
Give an example of a strong follow-up question you could ask after someone says, "Winning that game was crazy."
Teacher decides