Turn in Your Portfolios

Midterm grades are due this week, so please turn in your folders with your clippings and the portfolio form where you list any extra duties you've done.

Editors:I've added a link at right for a tutorial on cropping using InDesign.

Advertising

Thursday:Let's talk about a plan for selling ads and a plan for organizing the holiday greetings (including what we are going to call them).

Exchange editors: Please send out the latest issue of the Crimson Chronicle.

Keeper of the Future Book: We still need someone to do this. I would start by going through the school calendar and making notes for each date.

Story ideas for the next issue

Please come prepared on Monday with story ideas for news, opinion, entertainment and sports. That means checking on your beat assignments to see what is going on.

News: If your beat is an SLC, talk to the administrator or lead teacher for the SLC to see what is going on. If your beat is a grade level or a club, talk to the teacher-sponsor or student officers to find out what is schedule between now and December 14 (our next publication).

Also, check the school calendar on the website to see what activities are scheduled that we might want to cover.

Opinion/Editorial: will have two pages, so let's get some letters to the editor. We could do a staff editorial if we like. It could be something serious (global warming, war in Afghanistan) or not so serious (what we hope will happen in 2010, our New Year's resolutions.) The resolutions could be about the Crimson Chronicle (spell people's names correctly, double check our facts, cover SLCs equally, expand club coverage, etc.)

Entertainment: will also have two pages, so figure out what movies and music releases will be out around that time and see if we can review them.

Sports: If your beat is a sport, figure out if we need a season ender story (football, cross country) or a preview (basketball, volleyball, soccer, swimming).

Advertising: We need to sell at least one page of advertising, in addition to the shout-out ads. Let's get back to Amoeba Music and sell them a half page at least. If we sell lots of shout-outs, they can go on their own page. We need to come up with some guidelines for this. How many words for $2? Will we have a form for them to fill out? Will we give them a receipt?

Unpublished stories:Don't forget we have Antonio's mentor program story. (add quotes from mentors/mentees in SAS advisories who have already started it.) Also, Taguhi Tavitian submitted a story about how budget cuts are affecting field trips that we didn't have room for in the last issue.

Deadlines for November Issue

OK, I'm a dork. I just replied to two stories sent to the crimson chronicle email account, not signing my name, or even noticing that they were mailed from the same account. So Kevin and Karla, those notes are to you from me.

We need to get pages 1, 2, 3, and 6 completed on Wednesday. We can't be working on all eight pages at the last minute, or we will be here all night and there will be lots of errors. As soon as you get your page laid out, print a hard copy and give it to Luisa to proofread.

Pages 4 and 5 should be done on Thursday, with space left for where the Halloween photos will go. Pages 7 and 8 should also be done on Thursday.

On Friday, we drop in the photos and make any last-minute corrections.

Week of Oct. 26: Countdown to Nov. 2 issue

Monday: Gregory Buur, director of printing operations at Gardena Valley News (which prints our paper) will instruct the editors on color correcting photos using Photoshop. I will give the rest of the class exercises on saying what you mean and meaning what you say.

Tuesday: The editorial page and entertainment page should be laid out.

Wednesday:The front page, page 3, and page 7 should be laid out.

Thursday: Pages 4-5 should be laid out with space set aside for Halloween photos. The sport page should be laid out.

Friday: Upload and choose photos and complete pgs. 4-5. Make any changes to sport page. Send to printer by 4 p.m.