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**Deadline #1 - Varsity Boys Volleyball**
This was my first spread ever made in InDesign for Yearbook. I was glad this was my first official spread because it followed my practice Grass Volleyball spread so it was similar in theme and easier for me to work with the program. I like how I highlighted the red in the boys jerseys with the black and white throughout the photos in this spread. Also, I believe that that layout is well done in how the dominant photo and the story are equal in proportion and the main features to the page while the other seven photos surround them. I learned that focusing on people in pictures to face the gutter actually gives the page a better flow and consistency. I also like my title and subhead, and believe they are creative and original, while my subhead is concise and alliterative. I didn't take as many risks in the spread with it being my first real page for the yearbook. I tried to follow the guidelines as best I could with an eye-line that was easy to follow, a catchy dominant photo, and a basic and descriptive side-bar. Because of this, I now know that I could definitely improve this spread most by including more of a risk and adding more effects that could make this page different from any other.



Deadline #2 - Peer Support
This spread is simple yet representative of the members of peer support. What I like best about my spread is the organization. The sidebar on the left, perpendicularly aligned with the three captioned photos on the bottom of the spread lead well into the dominant photo between them. I also think my sidebar by itself was a creative success and worked well with this page. I felt my story was also well written and created the right feel for a yearbook spread representing the participating students in Peer Support. When I began this spread I thought my page would be in Black & White with some color incorporated but it turned out to be a spread with only Black & White. I was disappointed at first because I thought I had worked with the colors in the pictures in Adobe Photoshop very well. However, when I changed the photos back to the required Black & White, I learned that yearbook pages actually do look really well done and sophisticated when in Black & White, especially this page about Peer Support. I took a risk on this page slightly with the layout. The pictures all reach the edges of the bottom and left of the page. What I could improve most with this spread is my photo quality, because for peer support it was difficult to get good photos taken with only meetings once a week and rare events sponsored by the group. I had a limited variety of pictures and if i had more it could have greatly improved my spread.



Deadline #3 - Peace Day & Stand Up Against Poverty
This spread was my first page to have color become much more incorporated into it. What I like most about my spread is the "chill" mood, or "peaceful" feel I made the page give out, with the peace sign used as a continuous theme throughout it. Each picture is numbered to match the caption with peace sign hand characters also representing the numbers. My side-bar was only about Peace Day because all of my pictures, with the exception of the dominant photo of our own peace sign, were from Stand Up Against Poverty. I also really like how the pictures in the side-bar (of people doing peace signs) branches out diagonally leading the eye to picture 3, which leads to picture 1, and ultimately brings the eye of the viewer around the entire page. I learned in this spread that, even though I had this page assigned as Black & White and some color throughout, I didn't always need to put every photograph in Photoshop and edit it to have half Black & White, half color. I realized it actually still looks nicely done to have a picture with all color, and other pictures with only Black & White. I used to think the page only looks best when Photoshopped with part color.



Deadline #4 - New Events and Groups - Mr. CAC 2008 & Cairo Kickers
This was my final yearbook spread and I was really glad to be given this assignment. You gave me the freedom to design the "New Groups/ Events" however I wanted. I decided to focus the spread on just The Cairo Kickers and The Mr. CAC Pageant but to split the spread into two: Boys on the left, girls on the right. I also wrote two separate stories linking to each others. I think my headings are both creative and work well with each other with alliteration used and a catchy subhead below them. I centered the two stories in the middle of the pages and learned that putting the pictures from both pages around them really highlight the page as a whole, bringing the eye in from one side diagonally down, and back up to the other side.