March 31st - April 4th: Student Ads!

UPDATE: I really want these ads to be perfect - we are actually going to use them as samples in order to sell ads next year. For that reason, I have signed us up for the computer lab on Wednesday and Thursday and I am extending the due date until Friday. Finally, remember the layouts you made a few weeks ago? Ads are layouts, too, you need to follow the same rules! Make sure you have some element touching each of the four sides of the ad, no trapped white space, etc.

This is our last week of working on the yearbook! The final deadline is Friday, April 4th. We will be in the computer lab on Friday, but not the other days this week.

This week's assignment is a group project In a group of 1-4, I want you to create a sample family/friends ad on eDesign. You will create your ad using practice pages - so it is very important to save your work. Here's how to do it:

Go to hjedesign.com and log in. (Select the 2014 book).

Sign in to eDesign!

You are now on the Home page. Click on "Book" at the top of the page.

Click on "book" to get to the book/ladder

You are now in the book or ladder section. At the top, click on the picture of a book with a pen on it next to where it says "Jump to"

Click on the sample page button

You are now on a practice page. This is where you create your ad. Look on the right side and click on the "layouts" icon - it is the third one down and it looks like a little mini layout.

Click on the layout button

Scroll down to the bottom of the layout choices. There you will find a few templates. You can use these templates for your sample ad or you can make your own/change them a little, if you like. Drag and drop the template onto the sample page and begin working!

Our sample

A sample from some other school

You must make at east two versions of your ad. You can choose to make an eighth of a page, a quarter page, a half page, or a full page. Do not make two of the same version (do not make two full page ads, for example).

These are the ad sizes

When you are done with your ad or ready to stop working on it, you have to save it as a template. There is no other way to save your work on a sample page. Go to the top of the page and select FILE -- Save as Template. Then if you need to work on it some more later, you can find it in the template section. This assignment is due on Wednesday, April 9th. Your group will show me your template on my computer in class. You do not need to print out your template - just save it.

TWO TYPES OF ADS: You have two choices of the kind of ad you can make: A "Friends" ad or a "Family" ad. The sample templates are all family ads - usually an ad purchased by the family of a graduating senior. It usually includes one to five photos of the student (often baby pictures or sports photos) as well as the student's name and a message from the family.

Friends ads are usually purchased by a group of friends (typically they are all seniors) who take pictures of themselves and include one big message they write together about their memories or smaller, separate memories they write to each other.

NOTE: In the sample templates, I used random pictures from the yearbook library and made-up names. You should try to make a REAL ad - that is, the pictures should all be of the same girl, for example.

SOME HELP: These websites might have some good ideas to help you design your ads.

http://www.pinterest.com/gingerljh123/yearbook-senior-ad-ideas/

http://www.walsworthyearbooks.com/idea-file/5130/respecting-parents-and-design/

https://www.jostens.com/yearbooks/content/files/rec_ads_highschool.pdf Although, these are not great.

http://www.ramonausd.net/domain/605

You can also do a Google Image search for "yearbook senior ads" or something.