Chloe Hislop

chloe hislop yearbook team leader 2016-17 portfolio

self-anaylytical evaluation

I honestly feel like since yearbook is structured so differently from my other classes, I learn more real life skills in this class than any other. In terms of actual production skills, I learned more about how to work design programs like eDesign, since this was my first year being in charge of actually putting together spreads. I hope to be on the publications staff of my college, so those skills will be useful in the future. My writing has also gotten better because of all the editing and critiquing it goes through in this class, and that will certainly help me in all areas in the future. I think that in yearbook, we learn the most about deadlines. I think something that’s important to know about deadlines is that even if you think you have it together, things can always suddenly get in the way and so it’s important to have a back up plan for getting everything completed. I think next semester, I will start checking in with my team members more regularly to make sure that they are getting quality work completed, and maybe asking John to check in with them too because they do not always tell the truth. I think that our staff in really strong, especially the team leaders. The New York trip and yearbook camp brought us all together, and so we collaborate really well. However, being friends with the other staff members simultaneously makes things easy and more difficult. Things are made harder because you do not always want to confront your friends when they are not getting their work done. I have learned that journalism ethics are very complicated and you have to pay very strong attention to them. The hardest part about writing for yearbook is learning the difference between fact-based adjectives and opinionbased adjectives, and staying away from opinion-based adjectives. It is so easy to let an opinion accidently slip into what you are writing. I consider myself very committed to yearbook. On deadline nights, I regularly stay after my work is done to help the editors with whatever else needs to be finished. I have gone with Ashley, Korie, and Mia to Janey’s on the weekends to help them with design and finishing little things on the pages, and I am the only team leader who has gone to help.

When my team members are absent, I will conduct interviews for them, even if I have my own things to complete during class. I stay after school to work on spreads regularly. I think the thing that proves my commitment the most is that I really do care about how this book turns out. I want it to be quality and award winning and I want to be able to be proud of the work I have done in class this year. This semester, I faced a problem with my workload. Outside of yearbook, I am in two AP classes, plus an off campus college class and I had a lot of difficulty with fitting everything into my schedule of yearbook, homework, and applying to colleges. My biggest weakness is that I cannot really handle stress well, and I tend to panic and become irritable. To overcome this, I need to work on asking other people for help when things are too much to handle, and just pushing to get everything done instead of panicking and saying that I cannot possibly do it.

reflection 1

The most significant piece of writing I did this year was the story I wrote about Film and TV. It was really difficult to write because I struggled a lot with finding an interesting angle because there was nothing especially exciting happening in the beginning of the year in that class. I ended up finding an angle I really enjoyed when doing my interviews. I found two students who both wanted to pursue careers after high school in filmmaking. It evolved from what was going to be a boring, general story about a CTE class, to a story I thought was interesting and enjoyed writing.

First DraftTaylor Waters has been able to explore her passion for film making through Film and TV. This is her second year taking the class, and her third year participating in film related classes. Waters has found that the class is a good creative outlet for her, because she loves photography and filmmaking. “I can do something I love and earn credit at the same time,” Waters said.

Waters hopes to go into movie production or film editing and taking the class has, “really helped me get a feel for what I like and dislike in filmmaking,” Waters said.

Another student who has found his niche in film production is Daniel Cropman. He is in his third year of Film and TV, and as an experienced student he’s, “…been given more responsibility in terms of being trusted to complete important projects, like the Senior Splash video,” Cropman said.

Cropman wants to graduate from college with a film production degree and become a director. “In my opinion putting together your own film is fun. You get to plan out the many different types of shots that you want to use, as well as create dialogue if necessary, and then you get to edit it all together in Adobe premiere and watch it,” Cropman said.

Cropman has also formed close bonds with his classmates and they have all learned to play off each other’s strengths and weaknesses.

Final Draft-

all about me

reflection 2

I am proud of this photograph because it captures school spirit really well and it will be a photo that will bring up memories for students when they are looking back on their yearbooks.

I am proud of this mod because I really like how the design turned out, and I feel like it was a really clever idea. I also really enjoyed taking the photos for it and putting it together.

I am proud of this photograph because it is being used as a dominant photo on the football spread, and it really helps tell the story of the girl on the football team.

I wrote the main story on this page, and I took the dominant photo, the other photos that go with the story, and the photos that go with the business mod.

I wrote the mini story about the guitar classes, and I captioned a majority of the photos.

I designed the left side of the page, and helped Meghan with the profile mod and did the cutous.

I took all the photos for the photo strip and helped design the finals mod and the trilingual mod.

I captioned photos on this page and helped design the ‘pin it to win it’ mod.

I took all the photos for this page, and I did the whole mermaid makeup mod, including design photos and writing. I helped write captions and design the rest of the page.