Committee Tips
As a general suggestion to all committees, email is your best friend. Email your members when you want them to come in for meetings, when you need something - it's just better than announcements over the PA system.
Layout
- start meetings early; it may be useful to have a meeting to teach new members how to use InDesign and YearTech
- have templates ready for the various sections; though you may have some very creative and ingenious layout members, it'll give continuity to the book to have something for members' to work from when making pages - it also makes things faster for start up
- run meetings once a week - the more meetings, the more pages you can get done; you should aim for about two events pages a week (assuming you have the resources to do pages)
Copy
- plan to send out members to every event, with the intention of having them write a blurb for it; don't get stuck with having to find someone who went to the event after the fact
- rotate jobs of the members, have different members come in to do captions for different pages
- try to have someone captioning, who went to the event
- decide on whether to use personal names or not in captions and blurbs
Photo
- you can never have enough photos - make sure your team knows this; the Yearbook can always use candids, and you never know when a photo can be used for a specific theme page
- remember to have your members take photos at the highest resolution their camera can accommodate; otherwise the layout team ends up having to resize photos
- no date stamps on digital photos!
- send more than one photo member to each event to get a greater variety of photos
Sales
- tap into the creativity of your sales team for survey questions and poster designs
- when dealing with money (ie. book or Personalised Page sales), always have an Editor present in addition to members of the sales team, for liabilities' sake