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Coverage ~ People & Portrait Sections

Covering People ~

Making the Most of your Portraits Sections


Include Portraits ~ FEATURE Personalities

Include the PERSON (student portraits) ~ Feature the PERSONALITY (quotes, quick

reads, etc. )

• Portraits show who the PERSON is and not much else, so it is important that ALL students are represented by more than just their school pic.

• Coverage throughout the rest of your book, in Student Life, Academics, Sports & Clubs pages features students in action and therefore captures the PERSONALITIES of those involved.


Add interest and student involvement to your People Sections by designing for extra coverage:

• side bars ~ cut-outs ~ quote questions ~ people profiles ~

• photo strips ~ content modules ~ feature stories ~

•LOTS of personality pics

FILL YOUR PEOPLE PAGES WITH MORE THAN ‘MUG SHOTS’!

Portraits ~ Design for Maximum Coverage!


Show & Tell: Don’t just show them, tell their stories!

Quick read ideas for feature stories in your People section.

• Costs of being a senior• Prom planning• Class ring• Getting a driver’s license• Class activities• Relationships and breakups • Class rivalries• Jobs• Cars• Unique accomplishments• Favorites – movies, songs, books, foods

See the “Survey and Quick Read Ideas” list on the website under Ideas ~

Coverage to get a head start brainstorming

possible topics to include with your portraits.


8 students’ personalities are featured

with their favorite movie

and a quote

Include Portraits… FEATURE Personalities!


20 students’ personalities are featured in this spread with their pictures and/or quotes and backpacks

Include Portraits… FEATURE Personalities!


Include Portraits… Feature Personalities!


The consistent color strips make

this school’s portrait section cohesive even though many

differently shaped content modules are

used to increase coverage.

Portraits ~ Design Ideas Color strips, Content Mods, & Cut-Outs


Portraits ~ Design Ideas Color strips, Content Mods, & Cut-Outs


Portraits ~ Design Ideas

Include Portraits, EMPHASIZE CONTENT

Consider skipping a traditional People Section and instead making portraits the “photo strips” for your content spreads.


If you are having trouble covering a certain student, make their portrait more memorable with quotes built right into the

portrait layout.

Photo strips with cut-outs and folio faces also add coverage to

this portrait section.

Portraits ~ Design for Content


Design for Content: Increase the relevance of portrait pages for students in different grades

with well thought out features.

Content that relates to the entire student body (like the cell phone/internet mini-spread at the bottom of these portrait pages) ensures that more than just the grade pictured in this spread’s portraits will be interested in these pages.



Get Graphic!

Enhance People Sections with Information Graphics!



Be Creative!

This school did away with the ‘mug shot’ all together and produced their own portraits, shooting candid shots of students with the people and things they like most. What creative ideas

can you try out in your People Section?


Fill in the blank sections allow students to personalize their yearbooks.


Be Creative!


With a little planning, People Sections go from dull to delightful!


Be Creative!


Portraits ~ SeniorsSend them off in style!

4 for the price of 1:This senior section exceeds

the 3X rule in one fell swoop. Each student has their traditional senior pic, professional portrait,

handwriting, and list of favorites. Since superlatives are worked into the portrait pages, they save space that

would otherwise be used for dedicated superlatives

spreads.



Make the most of Division Pages!

Divisions can be stylized, cool, push your visual theme AND show 20+ students!




Tons of pics and tons of personality!

Coverage ~ People & Portrait Sections Portraits ~ Division Pages

If you do not have room in your book

for double page divisions, make the

most of the space you have with interesting

photos, people profiles, and content

mods.



Include Portraits, EMPHASIZE CONTENT…

… and watch your People Section come alive!

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