HARDY’S PUBLISHING Ltd. 15C, High Street, Lydney, Gloucestershire. GL15 5DP.
What You Do!
Following our guidelines will make putting your yearbook together an enjoyable experience. Full details can be found in our Production Guide.
First of all a Yearbook Committee is formed. Generally a small group of students, say, one or two from each Tutor Group. But it can be any size, it depends on you.
We then recommend organising the Yearbook Committee into the following teams: The PHOTOS & GRAPHICS team, the WORD PROCESSING team, the FINANCE team and finally the EDITORIAL team.
PRODUCE A QUESTIONNAIRE.
It is useful for the YEARBOOK COMMITTEE to produce a questionnaire, especially if
it is your first yearbook. Keep it simple, with some basic questions about what your
Year Group might want to see in the yearbook, i.e: Passport photos, class photos,
school trips, collages, staff comments, award pages, signatures, messages, ins and
outs of the period, poems, cartoons, cuttings from local press. To get you started
we have provided a sample questionnaire on the reverse of the pull-
PROMOTE THE YEARBOOK -
We supply an A2 poster for you to promote your yearbook, if you need any more just give us a call, or you could design your own, but make sure that everyone in the year knows about it, and continues to know about it. Also you can use your assemblies to promote your yearbook.
THE PHOTOS & GRAPHICS TEAM
This team is responsible for collecting the photos that are to be put in the book. They will also create any collages from the photos you have collected. They are also responsible for collecting any other artwork that has been produced by the students such as pages of your favourite things, cartoons, paintings, and drawings. Also, cover art work, backgrounds, borders and the list of student names for their portrait photos need to be made. Then, the collected material is passed onto the EDITORIAL TEAM.
WORD PROCESSING
This team is responsible for the collecting and typing of the text that is to go in the yearbook. Such text will include teacher comments, hand written comments, poems, tributes, quotes, funny experiences, awards, future ambitions. If it isn’t already, they will need to type the text using Microsoft NOTEPAD. All of the text should be sent to us in Microsoft NOTEPAD and saved on digital media or on the USB Memory Stick we provide. It is their job to choose the fonts for your headings and text, this information is then passed to the EDITORIAL TEAM. You will find the fonts you can use in our Production Guide.
THE EDITORIAL TEAM
This team is responsible for organising the content after receiving all the material from the other teams. The EDITORIAL TEAM decides what goes where, the layout of each page, which pages are to be colour, drawing the grid sheets and making sure that everybody else has submitted their material on time. As they will have to sort, name and place on page all the material submitted to them, hence, good organisational skills are required.
THE FINANCE TEAM
The most important job of the Finance Team is in fund raising & sponsorship. They also have the responsibility of promoting the yearbook to fellow students and taking their orders and collecting payment. Also, they are responsible for stage and final payments and dealing with receipts.