<p>So I'm the editor of my school yearbook, and I'm required to submit my editor's word (a page where usually one would get all philosophical about the yearbook process), and it's due tomorrow. Our layout is the school copybook.
I'm torn between two ideas:
1- Traditional essay, covering why we chose our layout and what it represents and stuff, with some random sketches drawn near it.
2- I got my friends to write several quotes about what they most remember of their experiences at the school. My second idea is to put these quotes on my editor's word, and add in like 1 or 2 sentences about why we chose the copybook layout and why I put the friends' quotes in my page (yearbook signifies memories of all students, yadayada.) There'd also be random sketches related to my friends' memories/quotes.</p>
<p>The second is more creative, the first is more conventional. I like the second more, but it's difficult to make. I mean, I already have everything I need, but I don't really know how I'd go about explaining why I put friends' quotes on the page (that sentence explaining that the yearbook is basically all students' memories.)</p>
<p>Help would really really be appreciated. Thanks.</p>
<p>you should combine the two. put in the sketches and quotes but then also explain how it relates back to the yearbook theme and stuff. I work on my school yearbook as well and i’ve been helping the EIC write hers, so I get what you are trying to do. Good luck^__^</p>
<p>^There’s no space to fit an essay and the quotes, as they’re so many (and I only chose the good ones.) So I was thinking of putting the quotes with the sketches, and then I’d just add in random comments with arrows pointing to what I’m commenting about (e.g.: arrow pointing to the layout and I’ll explain that), so that might work, but then I’d have to explain the whole quote thing, and I still have no idea as to how to do that. Something along the lines of “The point of the yearbook is to preserve our memories in a way nothing else can, so here are quotes from the students that will remind them of their days here whenever they look back on them”. Except that phrasing sucks. Any further help?
Thanks ^^</p>
<p>after reading what you just said i’m guessing that it would not be such a great idea.
My reason for syaing so is because it would be like your creating a “tutorial” of sorts (because of the pics and arrows) on what you made.</p>
<p>I would add in a few quotes around the message i type and then write about how they relate to the student body, and then through that I would explain the choice for the yearbook layout. I would only use the idea of quotes and pics as an extra of sorts, but I would constantly relate back to them throughout the editors page.</p>
<p>Sort of a sketchbook, rather than a tutorial, really…
I’m not so sure. I mean, I like your idea, but it’s hard to pull off… as I said there’s no room for both an essay and the quotes… so it’s pretty much either/or.
My idea was to shorten everything I would’ve said in the essay and add them on the page in a way that fits the layout, which is a copybook.</p>
<p>^
That sounds fine. The way you just stated it was how I saw it in my head.</p>
<p>But what is the problem with that? It sounds fine.</p>
<p>Sorry, I thought you meant that I should discard the idea of adding in random comments on the page containing what I would’ve said in the essay.
So basically the page would be random comments on the layout, memories, etc., and the quotes, with some sketches sprinkled around (related to the quotes.) Is that the way you saw it? Because that’s basically what I’m going for… hmm…</p>
<p>Yah. Sounds good. But the comments you make, would be short and to the point. So kind of like your essay thing but with only the important parts.
I’m sorry. I think that I confused you with the words extra lolz.</p>
<p>Go ahead and do that then, as long as each quote and sketch related back to what you would have said if you hade made an essay and it relates back to the layout you should be fine.</p>
<p>You’re the EIC! All this stuff should just appear in your head. lolz
Don’t second guess your ideas. You were elected or appointed editor for a reason, because people trust your ideas and thoughts. So just go with it . :D</p>
<p>It does. But this is so unorthodox, and what really frustrated me was that it was so hard to explain why I’m choosing the quote idea. Here’s hoping my school accepts it (yes, they’re very strict).
Thanks for your help 
(By the way, I’m second-in-command after the EIC, I’m not the EIC. Won’t explain why, but let’s just say it was messed up 
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<p>No problem.
and good luck!!! ^__^</p>
<p>Out of curiosity, what was your layout and what exactly did youe EIC do with his page? :)</p>
<p>my EIC is a girl.
I’m editor of the freshamn pages. It was a simple collage theme for the three pages, then 1 intro page of their faces put together in a collage form, yet different. Then their actual pictures were just staggered in a period. Nothing speacil. Not a real theme. The only time we use a theme is for the borders and the cover pages.</p>