Akins Photojournalism

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Six weeks wrap up

Follow these directions CAREFULLY, and email your final product to Connolly (mconnoll@austinisd.org) or Reeves (mreeves1@austinisd.org) by 5pm on Friday, Feb. 22.

These are MAJOR grades. YOU WILL NOT PASS IF YOU DO NOT SEND THIS EMAIL.

First, Make sure you have done ALL of the following:

  1. Your final exam InDesign document (started as the final exam last semester) is saved into your server (T:) drive folder.
  2. You have inserted your original Yearbook layout into the document toward the end, but before the glossary (Click here for reminder)
  3. You have finished the color shoot (Click here for reminder), and edited the images in Adobe Bridge, and added the metadata (Click here for reminder). This is all saved in your (T:) drive folder in a folder named "Color_shoot"
  4. You have cropped the best photos from the color shoot and placed them into your InDesign yearbook layout (see item 1, above)
  5. You have created a page in your InDesign document that is a magazine cover (Click here for reminder) , and you have cropped one of your portrait shots to fit the cover. You have placed the cropped portrait into your magazine cover InDesign page.
  6. Insert another page in your InDesign document after your Magazine cover, and place your finished "swarm" image on the page. It's your choice how you crop it and place it.

Next -Make a PDF of your InDesign document, and email it.

  1. Open your InDesign document. Got to File> Adobe PDf presets > (smallest file size).
  2. Title it "lastName_FirstName_pj_4" and save it to your (T:) drive folder.
  3. Email it to Connolly (mconnoll@austinisd.org) or Reeves (mreeves1@austinisd.org) by 5pm on Friday, Feb. 22.
  4. Subject of the Email should be "FirstName LastName's InDesign.

YOU WILL NOT PASS IF YOU DON'T Email this! Even if you are not finished with everything, you must email it!

Extra Credit Contest - Win extra points and prizes!

If you are finished with your InDesign document, and YOU HAVE EMAILED IT, go to the photojournalism folder on the server, and save copies of your best color shots in the "color_shoot_contest" folders. We will judge these on Monday 2/25.

Rules:
Save files in the correct folder
save files as "lastName_firstName_titleOfYourChoice"

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