Korie Kerr's Portfolio

Self - Analytical Evaluation Explain what you have learned in this course this year.

This year I learned a lot about working with other poeple. Because I was Photo Editor I was constantly going through pictures with other people and interacting with others. I learned how to divide up work with other people during our design sessions so we could get things done faster.

I’ve learned that we need to assign work to poeple before deadline nights to better utilize our people. The night always ends with a hand full of people working to get everything done and that should stop.

I would say I learned absolutely nothing about journalism ethics because I photoshoped a lot of pictures this year and we made a lot of quotes. To be honest, I didn’t really write this year I was mostly designing and helping other people with their spreads.

I was extremely dedicated to the yearbook this, I spent many hours every week working on helping everyone with their work loads and solving problems. The most prominent example is probably our design days at Janey’s that would often last all day. I spent a lot of time at my house designing and or-

Reflection #2

Choose what you consider to be your most signifigant work for the publication this year.

This year I would say that my greatest contribution to the book was doing a little bit of everything. I tried my best to have a basic knowledge of every part that goes into making the yearbook, and building up those skills throughout the the year.

Because I’m not technically on a team, I really wanted to make myself usefeul to teams that didn’t have a lot of members or that had members that didn’t really participate. I’ve been a person that was sort of inbetween teams every year of highschool so I have learned to just help in little areas that I’m needed.

Something I did more this year was design. I really loved it and even though it could be time consuming and difficult, it was important to me that the book look good.

One of my favorite pieces this year was the swim spread I designed by my self. I wanted a really wide shot of a swimmer across the top of the page so I scoured the server for good pictures of swimmers and cropped the one I liked to be a wide shot.

I was getting fed up with all the spreads I designed looking like two seperate pages so I made a consious decision to make this spread look more like a cohesive page, and I think it worked.

Shelby Clausen, a freshman, prepares to serve the ball during a high-stakes match. “Serving is the most important part of volleyball. A bad serve can ruin the volley”. photo by olivia persyn

Kiran Vilay-O’Connor, a junior, waits to recaive a hit from the opposite team. “It’s nerve wracking when you see girls twice your size about to slam a ball in your face”. photo by olivia persyn

Eden Cislo, a freshman, winds up for a hit over the net. “Middle is the hardest position because you’re always in the way”. photo by olivia persyn

Huddle up. The freshman team gathers together to raise support and keep their bonds strong.

“In my team, we are all friends and try to stay friends,” said Rielly Puckett, a junior on junior varsity. photo by olivia persyn

dream work A look into how the members of volleyball strengthen their bonds on and off the court

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With three teams, each with 12 to 14 players, just getting to know everyone on one team is hard enough. This begs the question of how each of the teams get along with each other?

“We like to consider volleyball as a whole program, so like, the varsity coach is considered the JV coach. Of course there’s still some social separation, but we get along pretty well,” said Rielly Puckett, a junior on the junior varsity team.

To really get each team to know each other, they each have their own teambonding strategies.

“For the freshman team, we had a few sleepovers. We also went to Oregano’s, and a lot of the time we hang out after games,” said Shelby Clausen, a freshman on the freshman team With overlapping practices, it's a little easier for each team to spend time together.

“Most of us hang out before and after practices. The levels don't really matter, we are all really good friends,” said Clausen. story by olivia stickel

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orie in the Casa

If you’re in yearbook, you’ve probably seen or heard about one of Korie Kerr’s photoshoots. They’re an Instagram sensation, and they seem to make many people quite jealous. “I love seeing and taking pictures and I really like making an idea in my head become an image,” Kerr said.

Most of the shoots that Kerr does include some sort of theme. Ones in the past have been butterfly theme, bath bomb theme, and blackout theme. “I get most of my ideas from props and things

I see in movies,” Kerr said. Some of them include more involved makeup and clothing and Kerr usually handles that too. It usually takes an hour or two to get everyone ready with makeup, clothing, and hair before the shoot. Kerr usually gathers things for everyone to wear from her closet, or requests people to bring outfits from their homes. “I really like the more involved shoots, and Korie makes me enjoy getting my picture taken, which is not something I can say about anyone else,” said Chloe Hislop, someone who is regularly involved in the photoshoots.

Kerr hopes that one day she can turn her passion for being behind the camera into a career. She hopes to work in graphic design or to create things for magazines. She will be attending Northern Arizona University in the fall, and she will be a Communications major. Kerr has been diligently putting together a portfolio of all her photographs that she can use once she gets to college.

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