Review your book

Review your current yearbook and see how it stacks up against these aspects:

Purpose...

  • To tell a story of the school's year
  • An information reference tool
  • A branding and marketing tool

Effective page-planning...

  • There are a sufficient number of pages
  • The yearbook is broken down into logical sections
  • Overall relevance to school justifies space allocation
  • The pacing is appropriate with interest spread out
  • Most intersting + colourful photos are reserved for colour pages (for mixed B&W + Colour books)

As a memory-book...

  • Balanced coverage from all school groups and faculties
  • A defined period of coverage
  • Removal of bias towards school administration, councils, and committees

As a reference tool...

  • Names are spelt correctly
  • Absent students and teachers are listed
  • Contact and Alumni information is documented

As a branding tool...

  • An authentic and identifable reflection of your school
  • Matches your school's values
  • Creative consistency and linkage with other publications
  • Makes students and parents feel comfortable
  • Provides a means for people to contact your school

Creative design provides...

  • A strong creative theme throughout
  • Consistent sets of typefaces throughout
  • School logos, mottos and colours

Layouts have...

  • A feature 'hero' shot to capture reader attention
  • Good use of eye flow and hot spots
  • Headlines, sub-headings and side-articles in the correct places

Yearbook copy is....

  • appropriate for a school yearbook
  • grammatically correct with consistent language, tense, full-stop spacing, apostrophes, and title naming conventions
  • carefully checked for spelling
  • set in an easy to read typeface
  • written in the style of an article for maximum effectiveness
  • matched to correct photos

Photography is...

  • natural and candid photos of school life
  • not posed where appropriate
  • in focus
  • in high resolution

The printing delivers...

  • Colours reproduced faithfully
  • Printing matching the proof
  • Utilisation of an efficient Yearbook format size and shape

And now, the part about you...

  • You are satisfied with the outcome, considering the effort involved
  • You didn't spend hours of your own unpaid personal time trying to finish it off
  • You were overwhelmingly congratulated on the fantastic outcome

 

Professional Evaluation

Send your yearbook into Rockstar for a free, unbiased and professional evaluation. Visit us in person, or post your current edition to us:

Rockstar Memoirs
PO Box 6336
North Sydney NSW 2059

You can also arrange to have a friendly Yearbook Consultant visit your school to meet, where we'd love to review what you currently have.