I'm on the Yearbook committee this year. I made most of the Yearbook for my sisters graduating class of '06 as well. They left their's to be done VERY VERY late, i.e STUVAC late..so I kinda felt bad for my sister and ended up doing a whole bunch of it. Like...80% of it lol. Anyway. Unfortunately, that made me "experienced" and so I was put on (by force i might add) the committee this year, for my own grade..which should be more fun.
Last year, the company that did the publishing of the book was Rockstar Memoirs. They are the only ones I know of that print/bind/and do other fancy stuff. Last year, it was a 108 pages of glossy paper, ALL COLOUR and it cost them 65$ per book. It also had a hard cover, and nice embossing on the front.
Um. What to include? What not to include is the real question lol. I have a lot of ideas I've gathered around the place for my own years year book...includes:
- Student Profiles (Yr 7 photo and yr 12 photo)
- Class Reports by teachers wtih photos of each class
- Year Reports with each year group photo as well as photos from events throughout the year concerned
- Messages from important people who weren't teachers; principal, year advisor etc
- Awards; braniest, funniest, most cultured etc..but one for every person in the year, so no one is left out.
- Groups; photos of each "group" and "click" in their "hangout" at school on a series of pages with a little note from each of the groups. photos will be natural to capture the mood
- Formal Recap Page/Graduation Recap page
- Swimming and Athletics Carnivals Photo Pages...
- Relationships! Love Triangles etc..
- Quitters/Leavers/Dropouts? Cruel but worth remembering everyone who was part of the year
- Ummerz you know how you collect thousands of photos from everyone? A dvd at the back with all those photos on it...so everyone can have them
- a photo of the year in jersey's lined up in the shape of the numbers "07". Someone, somewhere, posted a pic of that, and I thought it was a spectacular idea for like a last page of a year book
- And that's all I can think of atm.
We've specifed for a 70$ yearbook this year, so it should all happen. Yearbooks are so much work, I kinda don't want to do it again this year lol