ME-Gazine
Your Final Yearbook Project

Deadlines -- Most of these will be due on Fridays, at the end of the period.

DIRECTIONS -- Design your own personal magazine (or Me-gazine). It must be at least one signature long (or 16 pages in length). Your goal is to produce an original, theme-based and professional-looking "magazine" demonstrating good layout techniques, photo-editing skills, etc... that you used and learned over the past 6 months. 

VIDEO TUTORIALS -- Before/After Magazine

Requirements:

• Cover (pages - 1) -- Find a real cover (online or bring to class) from a magazine to guide you with the following design elements-- Headline, Dominant photo (must be a photo of you), font families/types, Colors, Alignment, Sub-texts, Margins, Borders, Graphics, Shapes, Linear elements, etc...

 

• Mug Spread (pages - 2) -- Must look like a yearbook page (Use photos of your friends in class as well as your own.) 

1. Set up your spread to look like a yearbook with "mug" panels -- 10 per page. Include a few photos to help with the design. Establish a theme -- based on your magazine type. Look through magazines to help you with the overall design principles. 
2. Google Search "Magazine Design Templates" and choose one to use as your guide. Set up your layers so you can organize all of your elements separately -- e.g. graphics, photos, text, background ... add a folio to your pages.

• Family Page (pages - 4) -- This is your chance to really be creative. I'm still looking for great designs, but really develop your style. You may still use a template from the internet, but this is a personal page. This is worth twice the amount since it will be four pages in length.

1. ​2 articles -- one per spread.
2. 6 photos per spread average (12 photos total)
3. Show historical photos as well as you in the present.

• Academic Page (pages 2) -- Choose your favorite academic class and feature it in the same design as the sample below. Your grade depends on your ability to match the layout, and include the content with real photos of your classmates and teacher.
• Extra-curricular Page (one spread -- 2 pages) -- Design a spread that focuses some non-academic page. You can focus on a sport (within school or outside), scouts (outside of school), your church/temple, etc...

1. Seven Photos required ...
2. One full article must include a minimum of 2 paragraphs.
3. Headline with description equaling 2 sentences minimum. LINK FOR EXAMPLE.

• ​Final Five (our last 5 pages are your choice)

I'm looking for great designs -- Use real magazines online for your inspiration.
​Deadlines --

1. Cover -- (Monday) March 4th
2. Mug Spread -- March 8th
3. Family Pages -- March 22nd
4. Academic Spread -- March 29th
5. Extra-curricular Spread-- April 19th
6. Final Five -- May 10th 

PRINT OUT OF YOUR PAGES -- Due MAY 17th - IN A REPORT FOLDER