What I Learned in Boating School Is...

The title should really be "What I Wished I Learned Before Boating School Is...", but that's not what Spongebob said so therefore that is why I have that title. Mr. Meinheit (you) is always telling me, and other students (but mainly me), that you have to have a reason that you do something, such as a specific design or color or idea. He (you) always tells me that it has to tie in with your work, therefore, it has to be connected in some way and can't just be a random color or graphic. So my title is revenant because one, it's Spongebob and he's cool, and two, it ties in with my first paragraph. (If this first paragraph didn't make any sense to you, then just ignore it because it made sense to me.)

Anyways, back to the real reason this post is about.

1.) I wished I had known how much fun it would have been my sophomore year because then i would have even more experience under my belt.

2.) I wished I had know about the joys of designing stuff. When I was younger, I was always fascinated by building stuff. But learning all the computer stuff and about Indesign, I wished I had spent more time constructing things on paper rather than in 3-D because now I find 2-D more fascinating.

3.) I wished I had known about keyboard shortcuts. That would have made my life so much better and easier during my freshman and sophomore year.


I can't really think of anything else, and this is due right now, so I'm done.

lol

Okay, Okay. For Real This Time.

So Deadline Day, or D-Day as I like to call it, was a bit of a panic and a blur for me. The "deadline" didn't just start at the last couple of hours. No it started at the beginning of the week of D-Day. My other fellow editors, Kelsey and Hannah, and I were all in Mr. Meinheit's room during lunch trying to finish up spreads that people never did. Kelsey was finishing up last minute touches on her Senior Pages, Hannah was just editing pages, and I had just finished my Thespian Society spread. Then chaos occurred, or as we like to call it "the page count panic". Meinheit was on Pictavo making sure there was enough room for everything (just casually checking) when all of a sudden he realized that oh no, we didn't have enough room for all our spread. One: we made too many group pages than we created in Pictavo. Two: We didn't have enough room for other spreads because we needed those pages for the Senior Class Pages. Then, there was the matter of getting the Senior Pages down from 26 to 24 pages. There was a bit of a panic for about 20 minutes before we came up with a solution. After looking at the group pages, I managed to fix it so it went from 6 to 5 pages; therefore giving Kelsey the extra page she needed after she moved it down from 26 to 24 pages. Also, after much debate, the four of us sadly decided to do away with Pep Rallies and Underclass Bloopers to make room for our Yearbook Staff page and another page that I can't seem to recall. And then we helped Kelsey rearrange the Senior Superlatives, so she could cut the pages down. That was the most panic I had during D-Day week. The second worst was when we tried to submit it and apparently we needed to approve all the pages, and we didn't do that. So instead of the yearbook getting turned in at 12:00am, it got turned in around 12:30am. THE END!

My Real Deadline Experience

I really can't even.

My Deadline Experience

I can't even.

Gabby Flores' Senior Ad

So this is Gabby Flores' finished Senior Ad. This version is the one her mom asked me to design. I am very salty about this ad because I do not like the design whatsoever. I created another (better) version that I also showed her mom, but she still chose this one. I would show you the design, but I don't know where it went. It was trashed, along with my dreams. 

Thespian Society WIP

So this is my Thespian Society spread. It's not done yet, as you can tell by the "WIP" in the title. I am still missing 2 photos, one being the dominant one, where Kristina is, and the other where Tate is. I am also going to change some out when I get more photos from Mrs. Pratt. I just put the photos there to see what it would look like filled in. I also still need to do my module. I plan on doing a four part picture of Kristina, so it looks like her face (like when it was done to Johnny Depp and Robin Williams. Then of course, I need to get quotes from her (and from other people. Those quotes also aren't real.) Also if you have any ideas on what to do about THAT white space (you know which one), that would be great. If you think it looks okay as it is, then....after I get all the above mentioned done, then I'm finished with it.

Happy Valentine's Day! (I'm mainly talking to Matthew and Shannon)

Alex Olivares

Alex Garza's Senior Ad

This is Alexandra Garza's finished Senior Ad. On the first version, I had the younger picture of her in the flowers switched with the older picture in the background. But they wanted it switched, so that was an easy fix. Basically, before I started the ad, Alex had told me a basis of what she wanted it to look like, and I went off of that. Also, the text box was purplish because I drew it from the flowers in the background of the younger picture when it was originally in the background. I forgot to change the color when I switched the pictures, but the parents still liked it, so I kept it as is.