Yearbook Presentation June 2013

Yearbook is the biggest project at AAS Our team of twenty students look through one hundred thousand pictures trying to find the best for our 350 page book Every single year we start the yearbook from scratch. So we start off with an InDesign file and we plan and we have the whole team work together on different layouts that we use for the book. But before we start that we create and we brainstorm a theme and we do that as a team together and this year we saw that all the technological advancements around the world and in our school applies to the yearbook so for that reason we chose our theme which is Digitizing Our World Every year we create the entire book around our theme. Everything starts with our theme so this year we tried to incorporate the theme as much as possible and this year one of the ways that we did this is through extra content. Last year we started with QR codes that allowed videos to play from printed pages this year we decided to embrace our theme and take this to the next level with augmented reality. Augmented reality is feature that allows us to bring pictures to life such as with sound, videos and moving objects. It basically works by holding up a smartphone over a picture and then it will appear on your phone. Augmented reality fits perfectly with this year's theme which is Digitizing our World. It's all about technology. Every single year we try to do something different in yearbook. Two years ago we had a 3D holographic cover and last year we had a metallic shiny foil cover. This year we'll finally get our hard cover. This year for the yearbook cover, which I designed, we decided to take inspiration from our perception and idea of the future. We wanted to see how we could portray the idea of the future within our yearbook cover design and we did so with this. Sadly our original cover design was actually a portrait of Mr. Spence with lens flare gradually passing across his face but sadly that was vetoed out for this other cover, this more serious cover. But it's okay Mr. Spence, we still love you. One of the things that we did this year was that we took art throughout the school and we took it and we scanned it and we put it onto the pages. As you can see, we have a finalized first grade page right here and this is with everything shown but to show the idea of the artwork that we used we actually took specific layers and we used one layer as a certain piece of art that was created by one of the students from the class to sort of personalize each page. And as you can see, as we slowly take off layer by layer then you can see that we're just left with this penguin right here that was created by one of the children in the class. One other thing that we want to talk about was the back cover of the yearbook. So we started out with a digitalized version of Russia and that was this but then we realized that it looked kind of boring and it didn't really have any pizzazz, you know? So and we wanted to make it look more like the front cover of the yearbook with all of the lights and the glowy effects so then we ended up with this finalized version right here. And this is actually a digitized version of Russia each of the squares representing the borders of Russia. and as you can see this little diamond right here in the middle that's actually Moscow. So we decided to make it more personalized for Russia and to show that it's also very connected to Russia and AAS actually being in Moscow. And also one more really cool thing that we managed to do with the cover was last year we had QR codes but this year we decided to do augmented reality so if you download an app on your iPhone or phone and you go over the back cover, you'll be able to see a video, as is being done demonstrated right now. That was one of our examples of the augmented reality that we managed to input into the yearbook this year and we hope you check out the rest because they're really awesome and we think it adds a really nice dynamic to the yearbook.