Yearbook Ideas for Senior Honor Ads
High school honor student seniors have endured years of classes, educational challenges and many of the same obstacles other students face each day. They have also managed to reach and maintain an academic level their other peers have not. They deserve recognition in their high school yearbook for that achievement, so they can have a permanent marker of goals reached during that period in life. Your school's yearbook staff is responsible to see that happens.
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Significance
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High school senior honor yearbook ads don't tout commercial enterprises like other advertisement. These ads are typically purchased by the senior's family or friends to applaud their academic accomplishments, highlight their athletic achievements or draw attention to their charitable work, humorous bent or most memorable events in their life. To that end, ads should reflect the student's life in creative ways that surpass the old photo in a rectangular box ad of yesteryear. However, while the ad is purchased by those outside the school environment, typically – and may supply some pictures used -- it is the yearbook staff that have the final say about layout and design.
Go Black and White
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Make the senior honor ad stand out in a sea of color. Use black and white photos. The ad will contrast with other ad pages in the yearbook, bringing attention to the page that's different. The honor student being recognized will enjoy the distinction made and the attention it brings him, since it will showcase his achievements more. You can add color another way with this ad through ad graphic touches, according to Walsworthy Yearbooks.
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Bleed Borders
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Don't box in your senior ad photos, which give a yearbook that production-line look. Let a photo of a senior in one ad bleed (trespass) slightly into the other side of the page, into another senior's ad. Bleed that senior's ad graphics into another senior's ad at another spot, lower on the adjoining page to even out the look and head off ill will or confusion about the ad space.
Stagger Photos and Sizes
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That old adage that, "a picture is worth a thousand words" is applicable with senior honor ads. Use pictures of different sizes, staggered on the page, to tell the educational and life stories for your seniors. A large serious-looking senior photo in the center, or off to the side of the page, surrounded by smaller photos of humorous, sporting or academic events, paint a greater word picture and showcase your senior's accomplishments and preferences better than a list.
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References
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