Blog 15: Independent Component 2 Approval

1. For my second independent component, I'm going to complete the yearbook! Wooo!
2. Honestly, I already work for at least 10 hours on the yearbook during a regular school week. However, when we come in on the weekends, we generally end up working for about an additional eight hours. Therefore, it won't be difficult for me to meet the 30 hour minimum.
3. The completion of the yearbook relates to my EQ by finishing the actual book that the student population is waiting for. These kids have already experienced the year, and this book had captured most of  it for them to relive as much as they so choose.

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

Literal
(a) I, Emma Seyffert, affirm that I completed my independent component that represents 30 hours of work.
(b) My mentor is Mimi Orth. She can be reached at:

morth@herffjones.com

(626)798-1680

(c) Here are my hours!

(d) For this project, I worked with my designers, adviser, photographers, and mentor to complete the cover and endsheets for the 2013 yearbook. We had to retake the picture several times and argued over the design for hours and hours.

Interpretive

These two aspects of the yearbook are arguably the most important pieces of the whole project. They are the first and last things that everyone is going to see while looking through this book. They either catch eyes, or turn them off, and make them not want to get a book.

here's the cover!

Applied

This helped prepare me for the details and time that it was going to take to make the rest of the book. When things went wrong with the internet, the uploading process, or packaging our files, it helped to clarify what exactly it was that we were going to be doing for the rest of the year. We made mistakes early in the year, so that we could learn from them and not make them again.

Blog 10: Senior Project Update

      So, the yearbook is well under way! After hours and hours and HOURS of working on our cover and endsheets, they are all turned in and complete. And, if I do say so myself, they look pretty lovely. 
      I have to say, my second interview with Mimi was awesome. In addition to that interview, she always helps so much when she comes to school and teaches my fellow editors and tells us everything that we don't know. And because of it, our book is going to be SO much better.
      I would post a picture of the cover, but I kind of want it to stay a surprise for when the book comes out. BUT! Here is the picture that yearbook is using on Facebook. The cover is along the same lines, including the color and the overall concept of the picture.

Blog 7: Independent Component 1 Plan Approval

         For my first independent component, I plan on completing the cover and endsheets of the yearbook. Our deadline to get these done is November 1st. The cover for our book is currently a rough draft of what the final is going to be, and the endsheets are somewhat complete, but aren't quite there yet. So, we still have a lot of work to do.

         We have already spent many, many hours working on this book. It will not be difficult to work for thirty more hours designing, and writing copy, and taking pictures for these two specific projects. In fact, we've already been toiling over them for at least half of that.

        In relation to my working EQ, these two things will provide a fantastic frame for the rest of the book to follow. When a reader opens the final book, they're going to see the front endsheet immediately after the cover. Likewise, the closing endsheet is the last thing that they will see. Needless to say, they are some pretty inportant pieces of the book, and I need to make sure that they are absolutely perfect. Therefore, they will help me piece together the rest of the book, and will help have my desired outcome.