Tuesday, Nov 1st.

Watch this slideshow.  Read the red line along the bottom first.  Then read the info above.  slide 5 and 6  have good examples of how to write captions.

Monday, Halloween

Today we will go over Caption Writing.  Be ready to learn and create.

CAPTIONS 101

1. Start with one sentence in PRESENT TENSE that tells the reader what is going on.

BEWARE OF THE PARTICIPLE PHRASE FRAGMENT!!!

wrong-   Mr. Malone sitting at his desk.

correct-  Mr. Malone sits at his desk. 


2. Next add a sentence or two that ADD CONTEXT.  THEY MUST BE IN PAST TENSE. 

The reason for this is that the action in the photo has already become a thing of the past once your readers get their yearbook. You write about that action in the proper tense to maintain consistency.

3. Every caption should do a few key things:
- Describe the action taking place in the photo.
- Identify every person in the photo by name and grade, up to 5 people.
 examples: 

Kaylee Burgett (12) and DeLaney DeJong (12)....  or Senior girls Kaylee Burgett (12) and DeLaney DeJong..


-Go beyond the photo by providing additional details about the event or program the photo highlights.

4.  Use quotes whenever possible to add a personal element, it gets the reader into the story.

DO NOT MAKE UP YOUR QUOTES!  Go ask the students in the photos what they were doing or feeling when the photo was taken. Ask what happened next.  

Example:

BEING MALONE-LIKE 

     Students Get Cultured On Another Culture

Mr. Malone sits at his desk during Geography class and quizzes the students on Central America.  Malone, a favorite teacher of many students, brought in a maraca, a sombrero, and a blanket from his trip to Panama.  "I like to let the kids touch a little bit of a foreign country," Malone says.  "I'm just one awesome guy.  That's why I got the Golden Apple."

Superman Text Effect.... Bollman Style

Step 1. Open Photoshop.  Create a new image File > New.  Make it 1000 pix wide by 200 high with 300 dpi resolution.

Step 2.  Select the TEXT TOOL.  Select the font ARIAL BLACK, a bright red color and a size to fill up most of the canvas area (60 is a good place to start).  Write your name on the canvas.  

Step 3.  Add an ARC to the TEXT by selecting Layer > Text > Warp Text 
You can play with the arc or the horizontal distortion.   

Step 4.  Rename the layer "NAME"

Step 5. Duplicate “NAME”    Layer > Duplicate Layer 

Step 6.  Rename this new layer on the layer menu "BLUR"

Step 7.  On the BLUR LAYER     Filter > Blur > Motion Blur  (Angle -40, Distance 80)

Step 8.  Duplicate this layer ten times     Layer > Duplicate

Step 9.  Hide the Background Layer and the Name Layer by click on the eye icon on the Layer Menu.

Step 10. Layer > Merge Visible 

Step 11.  Duplicate this "blur" level again until the text is solid.  Merge visible again.

Step 12.  Make "NAME" layer visible again and drag it to the top.

    Layer > Rasterize > Type, 

   IMAGE > ADJUSTMENTS> HUE/SATURATION  Adjust the HUE until the NAME is YELLOW. 

Step 13.  Layer > Layer Styles > Stroke  (black, 1 pix) 

Step 14.  Nudge the NAME layer down with the Move Tool until it matches up.  

Step 15.  Save as a JPG.  WAY TO BE A SUPER PHOTOSHOPPER

Thursday, OCT 27th

We have a few things we really need to get done before the pep assembly at 3:00.

Work on independent projects

     Ari, Kayla, Brie, Alyssa:  Meeting with Mr. B

     Zach D: Elementary Sales Letter 

    Mike, DeLaney, Kenzi: Flip Camera Commercial

Everyone else:  Working with Kaylee to pick story topics.  

Examples:

      Mike V- Caleb Loves Horror Movies

     Cully S- Tanner Runs To State  

     Ann- FFA To Indi

Have a topic and good angle by end of class.

HOMEWORK:  Write Interview Questions and bring to class on MONDAY.

WHAT'S AHEAD:  MONDAY:  Caption Writing 101 and Writing Interview Questions for stories.


ACT 2-  If time, work through Superman Text Bollman Style

Yearbook Issues In The News

Many schools require students to take a FORMAL yearbook photo their senior year.   They require tuxedos and draped dresses.   One student challenged this rule and it went all the way to U.S. District Court.

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/teen-can-sue-after-tuxedo-picture-blocked-from-yearbook

READ THIS ARTICLE.

Discuss it with a neighbor. 

Then post a comment to this post stating your opinion. What sort of dress codes are ok for senior photos?  What do you think of this student's complaint?  Write at least four sentences.  End with a conclusion statement. 

DUE: At the end of class TODAY!

Fixing Concert Photos

Before: 


Fixing Red Eye
Switch the Bandaid tool to the RED EYE TOOL.
Draw a box around the eyes you wish to fix.
This will change the red to grey/brownish.

Fixing the bad lighting
Image>Adjustments>Levels- Click on Auto Levels Button

Fixing Bad Color
Command + U (Hue)- slide the Saturdation down to -10

Save as "fallconcert" in JPG format.

Fixing Photos 101

Open Photoshop and wait for awesomeness!

Friday, Oct 21st

Happy Birthday to ME tomorrow...
Everyone will work in groups of 3.  Get with people you will be productive with.  We will not be logged into a computer during this project.

Thursday, Oct 20th

Act 1- Mr. Bollman's Sharing Time

Act 2- Work Time!

DeLaney- Read through Teen Ink.  If you find anything you think we should share with the class, bookmark it.

Kaylee- Read through the new yearbook idea magazine and if you find anything you think we should share, please bookmark it and let me know.

Alyssa and Brie- Working with me on placing photos.  Please and thank you.

Kayla and Ari- We will start on the ele-book today.  We will make a latter today. 

Brian- Type in more answers at Yearbook Avenue.

Dylan- Type up phobias.  Print them out.  Give to me.

Mike- Type story.  Cut-out Caleb.  Upload to student life>halloween

Carissa- Volleyball scores get the volleyball scores on the page please.  

Zach H- Make sure softball, baseball, and football scores are on the page.  

Zach D- Make a letter to send out for Elementary Yearbook sales.  I will give you a sample.   Price is $15.oo.

Kenzi- Make flyer for Early Bird Sales.  I have a cute bird you can put on it.  It should say that price is 45 dollars till Nov. 1st.

Jaylin- Make a flyer for Replayit.com.  We are going to post it in the labs.  Make it short, sweet, and easy to follow.  Have steps for uploading a photo. 

Wednesday Oct 19th

ACT 1:  Everyone will start class by logging onto REPLAYIT.COM.

Step 1: Sign up for an account.  Be sure to use your gmail account.

Step 2: Validate that account.  This will require you to check your gmail.

Step 3:  Upload a photo that you want to be in the candids section.  This could be one of you and a friend, something you've taken this year, or just a photo of you on photobooth.

Step 4:  Tell everyone in the school how easy and cool looking Replayit.com is!!!


ACT 2:  Indi YB projects

Brain- Get the Homecoming answers from Mike.  I will show you how to enter these on the yearbook website.

Mike- Interview Caleb.

Zach H, Cully, Carissa: Let's have a meeting about the sports section.  Come to an agreement on how you are going rosters, scores, stories.  Draw it up and make them on the pages.  Let's get those scores on for baseball, softball, volleyball and football.

Kenzi- Free day (thanks for staying after yesterday and doing all that extra work.

DeLaney, Dylan- Type up a list of the best Halloween answers.


Jaylin-

Kaylee-

Zach D- Process check and cross off name.  Send out thank you to that business.  Check on returned envelope.  Prepare elementary letter to go home.

Alyssa-

Ari-

Kayla-

Brie-

Workday, Oct 19th

Activity 1:  Mr. Bollman will go over your MAGAZINE MADNESS projects and demonstrate the different types of headlines.  Please take note as some people we confused on the Headlines project.

Activity 2: Working On individual projects.
Alyssa- Open Yearbook Avenue and go to the Homecoming spread.  We need to I.D. what images we have left to place.

Brie- Upload photos from Marching band.  Identify the best photos.  Upload to Band Folder (we may have to make one).  Then get a camera ready for me to take to the concert tonight,


Kaylee- Story ASN- In two paragraphs, describe Halloween.  What does it mean to an 8th grader?  A freshman?  A senior?  What do they look forward to?  What do they hate?  Get a quote from a couple kids to add into it.  BTW- Caleb German is a HUGE horror movie fan.  We could work that into this page somehow?

Zach D- Print out the businesses that have NOT paid.  Post them by the Goal chart and we can check them off as they come in.    Next, we need to start Elementary Book Order prep.  We sell them from Halloween to Thanksgiving. 

Kayla and Ari- Graphic Design work time.  What words are left to do?  Do we have a MONDAY?

Cully, Carissa, Zach H- Sports section meeting in the middle of the room.

Kenzi and Jaylin- Prepare to hand out Replayit.com flyers and order info.  Make enough copies for every student.  You can hand these out tomorrow in homeroom.  Have everything ready to go by the end of class. 

DeLaney- Place Softball and Baseball write-ups on pages.  Place Back to school write up on pages.

Brian, Mike, Dylan- Pass out Halloween surveys to people who haven't taken extra curricular photos last week or who won't this week.  We can make this list in class.  Then, Mike log into Yeabrook Avenue and we will work with the start of school spread.

Ann- Special Assignment- FFA Convention- Take your reporters notebook with you.  Keep a few notes along the way of what happened.  Get some quotes from students on what they liked, best memory, funny moments. Take some photos with your camera so we can use them in yearbook. 

Headlines!

On Friday, you worked on a brainstorming project in groups of two's.  Most people completed the front section but not the back. 

Start of class- Get your HEADLINES packet.  Working with your partner, finish the brainstorm project (at least 6 rows finished).  Then head on to the second page.  It has you use your thoughts on the front to form headlines.

EXAMPLE: "PROM WAS DA BOMB!" 

Finish these and turn them in by 2:50.  ONE PER GROUP WITH BOTH NAMES ON IT.

ACTIVITY 2: MAGAZINE MADNESS
Working on your own, complete the worksheet called MAGAZINE MADNESS.  You will be clipping powerful, eye-catching headlines from magazines. 

Please make sure that the magazines are returned to the MRC at the end of class.

Be ready for a PRODUCTIVE WORKDAY TOMORROW.  We will be finishing up the first two spreads of the year... Summer/back-to-school and HOMECOMING!!!

Indi Projects/ Headline Writing

Today we will start with individual projects.  At 2:55 we will switch to a whole class lesson on Headlines.

INDI ASN:
Ari, Kayla, Brie- Prepare cameras for tomorrow's band contest.
When done, finish any graphic image coloring.  Make sure that you upload all of your images to folder on Yearbook Avenue.

Alyssa- We need to mock up the start of school page, finish any drawings, etc.

Jaylin and Kenzi- upload photos to your Iphoto.  Delete them off your cameras.  Then hand them to Ari, Kayla, Brie to take to Band Contest.  Next, I would like you to select the best Cross Country photos from my computer.

Zach D, Brian, Kaylee, Ann- Finish envelops for businesses.  Those need to go out today.
Make sure they are properly addressed with zip codes.

DeLaney, Carissa, Cully- Finish the Baseball and Softball write-ups.

Dylan and Mike- Make the question thing for Phobias.

Zach- Print those new sheets.

Thursday, Oct 13rd

Jaylin, Kenzi- Go shoot Elementary photos.  Look for groups of 2-4 students doing interesting things.

Graphic Design Girls- TODAY is the day you'll color POWS.  Upload them to YBA when done.

Ann- Photo assignment- Upload what you have off the camera.   Then we will pack the page for Tyler Harrington who will get a camera at 3:00.  Lastly, you will do a close crop and upload them to Yearbook Avenue.

Kaylee and Mike V- Brain storm session today.  Halloween at North Mahaska.  What do you do?  What can we cover?  What else can we do on this spread?  Outline and make a plan.

Cullster and Carissa- Softball and Baseball write-ups on a google doc and shared with DeLaney.

DeLaney- Help Zach D and Brian stuff and address envelopes and encourage Cully and Carissa.  When they finish, proof the Softball and Baseball reports.   When complete, they can go on the respective pages. 

Zach D and Brian- Process Checks.  Paid in full receipts will need one of those spiffy THANK YOU CERTIFICATES you designed last week.  Try to get them in the mail ASAP.  Receipts with a balance will need a due date added.

Zach H- Print the Ag Photos you worked with yesterday.  Then do the same thing with the jr high dance photos.

Wed, Oct 12

Jaylin, Kenzi, DeLaney- Shoot Commercial. 

Graphic Design Girls- TODAY is the day you'll color POWS.  I HAVE THEM ON A JUMPDRIVE!!! YEAH ME!

Ann- Photo assignment

Kaylee and the Fair Boys- Brain storm session today.  Halloween at North Mahaska.  What do you do?  What can we cover? 

Cullster and Carissa- Softball and Baseball write-ups.  And I will try to get the pages put together.

Zach D- Process Checks.  Paid in full receipts will need one of those spiffy THANK YOU CERTIFICATES you designed last week.  Try to get them in the mail ASAP.  Receipts with a balance will need a due date added.

Zach H- Open a practice page.  Drop the photos of the Farm Safety Day.  Put Four or five per page at different sizes. Have a place to write captions.

Tuesday, Oct 11th

Work Day-

Jaylin- Retweet NMWarhawk message from last night on your twitter account.  Also, think of ways to get kids to follow us on twitter.  Maybe just an announcement or a flayer in the hall?

Kenzi- Plan distribution of Replayit.com folder.  It is up and running now and is SCHAWEEET!

Graphic Design Girls- TODAY is the day you'll color POWS.

Ann- Photo assignment

Fair Boys- BIG MEETING at start of class.

Cullster and Carissa- Sort through my baseball/softball photos on my computer.

Kaylee- Editor Job- I need you to pair together subjects in school that will share a spread in the yearbook.
Example-
Science/Math
English/Spanish
etc.
We have to squeeze all the subjects into a smaller section this year.

DeLaney- Commerical Brainstorm.  Recruit Kenz and Jaylin when they are done.  We will shoot tomorrow with a flip camera.

Zach D- Paid in full receipts will need one of those spiffy THANK YOU CERTIFICATES you designed last week.
Receipts with a balance will need a due date added.

Zach H- We need to converse during class time.

How To Make A Custom Brush

So you want to make a ben-day dot brush to stamp on your graphic images.  Here is the easy step-by-step instructions to make it happen.

Step 1- Open Google Docs.  In the COMICBOOK shared folder there are image files.  Find the one you want to use as a brush head and save it to your desktop.

Step 2- Open it in PHOTOSHOP

Step 3- Edit>Define Brush Preset.  This will open a box that will create your own custom brush head.  Name it and save it.  Now it is saved FOREVER in your brush head pallet.  It is usually found at the bottom.

Step 4- Open the image you want to apply ben-day dots on.

Step 5- Magic Wand (W) the area you want to stamp on.

Step 6- Select the Paint Brush (B) tool.  In the Brush Head Pallet scroll to the bottom and find your new brush.  Make sure the size is correct and you have selected the color you want to stamp.

Step 7-  Now its stamping time!  Remember to save final images at TIFFS if you have a transparent background.


Now that you know the trick, you can make a brush head that looks like just about ANYTHING!
HAPPY STAMPING!

Photographer Needed

Conference Cross Country at BGM 3:00 Departure 
Photographer will ride with the cross country team


Please talk to me if you want to go shoot these photos.

Monday, Oct. 10th Assignments

Zach D- process incoming check(s).  Print Ad Receipts.  

Brie- Sort photos from football game on my computer.

Alyssa- Layout Design.  I will give you the assignment today at the start of class.

Ari and Kayla-Grab cameras and go shoot elementary kids.  When back, upload them to your iphoto.

Brian, Dylan, Mike- Summer Fair Page Progress.  We need photos, interviews, etc.  Gather this info so we can start building the page.

Jaylin- Charge camera batteries.  Twitter Account Set-up.  Shoot photo of the warhawk sign.  Then bring it in and upload it.  Use it for the Twitter Account profile picture.

Kenzi- Replay it poster.  You and I will have a quick meeting to discuss the Replay it program and how we will get the word out. 

DeLaney- Write the blurb for back to school.  You did a great home on the homecoming page.
When done, you can start thinking about another commercial... maybe for REPLAY IT?

Kaylee- Editor job- Yearbook Title?  Brainstorm what the book might be.  "ACTION-PACKED YEAR", "SUPER YEAR"... etc. 

Cully- Sport Composites are uploaded to the SPORTS folder.  Drop them on the correct pages.

Carissa- Softball work.  Consult Cully.

Ann- Shoot tight mugshots.

Everyone will meet back up at 3:00 for a GRAPHIC DESIGN LESSON: stamping bendie dots.  

Thursday, Oct 6th

ACTIVITY 1-   Finish reading stories

ACTIVITY 2-  SLIDESHOW ON GOOD REPORTING

ACTIVITY 3- READ the project below on MAPS AND FLAGS

ACTIVITY 4- Start work on big individual projects. 

Maps and flags in your YEARBOOK LAYOUTS

At least two or three a year, someone will want to add a flag or map to their yearbook layout.  They ask, “Where is a good place to get maps or flags of foreign countries for our exchange student page or on a current events page?”  DO NOT just search Google and hope you can find something. Images you find on the web have two problems. A lack of resolution (most are only 72DPI and we need 300DPI to print) and you don’t own them. They belong to someone else. So you have to buy them (if they are for sale).

Now there is an amazing site called the World Factbook with maps and flags that the site states right  at the top of the copyright page, “The Factbook is in Public Domain.” Which means that ANYONE can use any of the maps, the flags or even the photos of foreign countries on the site...for free. And the are all high resolution and easily downloadable.

So, who creates this amazing site and lets you download all this for free? The Central Intelligence Agency. That’s right, the CIA. You know the bad guys in the Jason Borne movies?  Well when they aren't programming rogue assassins or covering up conspiracy theories, it seams they are scanning high quality images for yearbooks to use.

Don’t believe me? Check out https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html. What an amazing resource.

CIA MAP WEBSITE

Up-Coming Photo Opportunities

If you are available to shoot any of the below events, please respond with a comment.  

Friday, October 7th
Football vs Montezuma 7:00 pm
     1. Carissa
     2. Mike V
     3. Mr. Bollman

Thursday 10/13
Conference Cross Country at BGM 3:00 Departure
     1.
     2.

Friday 10/14
Football at Belle Plaine  7:00  4:15 Departure
     1. Zach Howard
     2.
     3. 

Saturday  10/15
State Marching Band Contest at Pella
     1. Mr. Bollman
     2. Ari Davis

Wednesday, Oct 5th

TODAYS PROJECTS:  Open your story in GOOGLE DOCS.  Print a hard copy of your story.  We will share these with the class today.

WELCOME BOB.  He will want to see what we are up to, ad sale update, theme and meet the new staff members.

NOTES:
Carissa- You know have access to the Yearbook Folder on Google Docs.

Zach D- process incoming check(s).  Update sales meter to 87%!!! 



Continuing Assignments-
Zach H- Mug shots uploaded from camera and sent to Yearbook Avenue.  Sort them into the right section of Student Life- First Day and Homecoming.

Brie- I need you to locate, sort and unload the following photos- Jr high dance, cross country, football practice, zoo assembly

Alyssa, Ari and Kayla- Graphic Imaging projects.  Color the pows and days you have been working on.  I will get these to you today.

Brian, Dylan, Mike- Summer Fair Page Progress.  We need photos, interviews, etc.  Gather this info so we can start building the page.

Jaylin and Kenzi- Back to school half spread work. I am going to delegate this to you two.  You'll be working with Jr high dance pictures, back to school photos, and football practice photos to make a cool layout.

DeLaney- Write the blurb for back to school.  You did a great home on the homecoming page.

Kaylee- Editor job for you.  I have a bunch but I will have to tell you in person so we can have a mini-meeting.

Cully and Carissa- Sport Composites are uploaded to the SPORTS folder.  Drop them on the correct pages.

Ann- I have a project for you involving the Farm Safety Day Photos.  You will be working with the best ones you have collected. 

Story Writing with Quotes

Autobiography

Lead:

To most the hayfields and silos of southeastern Iowa looked quite mundane but to Brant Bollman it was a land of imagination- where a young boy could dream of dragons and adventure- when anything was possible and dreams were as big as drive-in movie screens.

Transition:

Bollman grew up on a 200-acre farm of rolling hills and alfalfa fields.  His father raised

Human Context:

“I read a lot of fantasy books back in those days- Tolkien and Piers Anthony mainly, but my biggest fantasy came after the story was finished. I used to go out into the hayfields, climb atop a big round bale of hay and daydream my own tales in the orange glow of the Iowa sun.”

Transition:

 Bollman attended the University of Iowa and received a BFA in Fine Arts.  He studied abstract painting, sculpture and worked on some pioneering digital imaging projects using the new media of the 1990’s. 

Quote:

“I created my imaginary world, not in a hayfield but in my studio.  My dreams took shape with bright liquid colors, cartoon creatures and never ending stories.”

Today Bollman teaches students at a school not far from the hayfields where he once daydreamed.  At North Mahasha Community Schools he teaches K-12, painting, drawing and graphic design. 

“My hope is to keep these kids dreaming, to expand their minds and teach them that the imagination is the greatest adventure of all.”

Bob Visit

Tomorrow, Bob Kerdus from Jostens will be in to talk to us during class time.

Managing Photos Using Iphoto

So you've taken some really good photos... you have them on a yearbook camera. NOW WHAT?

Uploading from a Yearbook camera to Iphoto
The first thing you have to do is move the images from the camera onto Iphoto, a safe place to store these images until we need to work with them.

Step 1- Fine the USB cord for the camera.  It will either be in the camera bag or in the closet.  Plug it into the camera and into the USB port on the back of the computer.  DO NOT USE THE USB PORT ON THE KEYBOARD.

Step2- Open Iphoto.

Step 3- Turn on the camera.  A dialog box will open on Iphoto asking if you want to upload the photos from the digital camera.  Click on YES.  Another dialog box will open asking if you want to upload a selection of photos or all photos.  Click ALL PHOTOS.

Step 4- Wait while the photos are uploaded off the camera.  This may take five minutes.  When complete, another dialog box will open asking if you want to KEEP or DELETE photos off of the camera.  If you are using a yearbook camera, ALWAYS SELECT DELETE.  This will clear off the camera for the next user.

Step 5- Label the folder in Iphoto.  For example- "Sully Basketball Game".

Step 6- Right click on the digital camera icon in Iphoto and select 'UNMOUNT'.  Now you may unplug and turn off the camera and return it to its bag.

Now your images have a safe home.  When you are ready to sort or edit your images, you will move a working copy out into a folder on your desktop.  That way you will ALWAYS have your original in Iphoto.

Monday, Oct 3rd

Today you will receive your reporters notebook and we will discuss how to properly conduct interviews. 

I will present a slideshow. 

You will get a worksheet and work from the Textbook.

Finally, you will get your first interview project to get you into the habit of speaking to others.

Definitions: Graphic Design

Photo-Ready: A graphic design and publishing term used to describe a hand-drawn illustration that has been 'cleaned up' and is ready to be scanned or photographed.  Most of the time it means that all pencil marks have been erased, ink is all smoothed and checked that all lines are contiguous.

Print-Ready:  A term used to describe when an illustration is completely ready for the print process.  It usually means that it has been scanned, colored and approved for printing by an editor. 

Contiguous:  connected, without breaks. There are 48 contiguous states in America.  In illustration, contiguous lines make painting with the paint bucket tools easy.