Karina2

**Deadline #1**
This is my first layout I created this year. What I really like most about this spread would have to be the dominant photo, because the students in the photo are flexing, which is what the spread is about, flex period.My second favorite thing about this photo would have to be the student lying down over the top 5 activities list, because it is one of the many things kids do during their flex. What I learned from doing this spread would have to be turning parts of the picture black and white whilst having the rest of the picture remain in colour. One of the biggest risks I made with this layout would be the black square behind the pictures, because I wasn't quite sure if I wanted to do that,because I didn't know how well it would go with the pictures,but in the end I think it came out just fine with the photos. Another risk I took would be the dominant photo, because it has people flexing, and I'm not sure if students will actually understand, so that was also a big risk I took. One way I would improve this layout would probably be getting more pictures of different classes. I recently noticed that most of the pictures are either seniors or juniors, and if I could re-due this layout it would be adding in more pictures of sophomores and freshman.



Deadline #3
This spread was my deadline 3 spread. What I liked most about this spread would be the pictures, and the different styles of colours I used to make each one different. Another thing I liked about this layout would be the way I talked about each carnival/bazaar in the story. What I learned from this layout would be having to talk about 3 totally different things in one story, and making them all fit together for me was the hardest part of the whole spread, but in the end it worked out perfectly. One risk I took with this spread would have to be the size of my pictures, and also the black background for each of the captions. In the beginning of the spread I thought that I wasn't going to put a black box behind the picture mainly, because I don't like black boxes, but then I just decided to go for it, and in the end it came out nice. A way that I would improve this spread would definitely change the background. I used to have a picture of a carnival, but somehow the picture got lost, and then it ended with the orange rotated square, which really isn't my favorite part of the spread, but it does bring out the colour of the pictures.

Deadline #4
This was my last spread that I did for this year. From all the spreads I did this year, this would definitely be my favorite one. What I like most of this layout would probably be all the different pictures I used, and also the dominant photo which to me really catches your attention. Also another thing I like about this spread would be the quotes that I used and also the background image. What I learned from doing this spread would probably be bleeding the pictures, because I have never done that before so it was something new that I decided to use. Some risks that I took with this spread would probably be the change in colours I made for each pictures, because like in the dominant photo I changed that ground colour to monochrome which is different and something I have never done before. One thing that I would change from this layout would probably be getting a different background image, because this one becomes kind of stretched out, but other than that I'm pretty pleased with the way my layout turned out.



Deadline #2
This spread was my deadline two spread, which was the junior mugshot pages. My favorite thing about my junior pages would have to have been the background, which is an old paper effect, since the theme of the yearbook is the CAC newspaper. Also the way that the pictures are located on the spread is something else that I really like about these layouts. What I learned from doing this spread would have to be putting in all the students pictures correctly in each little box this took a long time, but once I got the hang of it, it became really easy. One risk that I took was putting in the old paper as the background, because even though I liked it, I wasn't sure if everyone else would like it as well, and also I wasn't sure if it would go good with the students pictures, and what they were wearing in the photo. Also the way that the photos were aligned, to me was a risk, because they were aligned quite uniquely and I wasn't sure if it would match well with the arrangement of the mugshot boxes. The only thing I would really change about these spreads would probably be adding more photos of the junior class, because after I added all the pictures it seemed like I didn't get a good variety of the junior class so that is something I would definitely want to change.