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My girlfriend's school's yearbook this year...

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Originally posted by: TheToOTaLL
Thats just plain stupid to have just a digital copy!

Now if it was a paperback copy with a free digital copy included on CD, that would indeed rock!
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Thats the way it was with my high school year books and ours were only $30.
 
If they are smart they won't mail them out until after the end of the year. The students will not have as much access to copy them that way.

Still sucks the whole CDROM thing.
 
dude that sucks. I guess when the students get the disk they will print their own book and bring it in for people to sign it.
 
I never bothered with any yearbooks when I was in HS so my knowledge is fairly limited. Having said that, a digital only version is pretty damn dumb though.
 
Originally posted by: dman
If they are smart they won't mail them out until after the end of the year. The students will not have as much access to copy them that way.

Still sucks the whole CDROM thing.
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If they do give them out while the students are in school I hope they have a quota system set up on the printers there.
 
wtf, how are you going to sign a CD-ROM?

about a month ago, i found my old HS yearbook and reading all the signatures was the best part 🙂
 
LOL this reminds me of our grad nite DVD (on our after-graduation school party a company video taped it and was supposed to produce DVD's for us). We paid $25 a copy, graduated in June, and didn't get the DVD's till September, AFTER EVERYONE had already gone away to college! If that wasn't bad enough, the thing was only 21 minutes long, for an 8 hour party... we paid over a dollar a minute for that POS. Biggest rip off ever. I didn't even bother converting it into a svcd and distributing it to people that hadn't bought it... not even worth it. Oh yeah, we were promised professional dvd's with menu's... it was on a DVD-R with computer generated "Grad Night DVD 2003" on the cover, just white all around, and then there were no menu's or chapters, just 21 straight minutes.
 
Yeah the grad night/prom night deals usually suck. Usually 4 hours of stuff and you end up with a 15-20min video....that's BS, plus alot of these stupid things spend half of the time introducing the sponsors and faculty chaperones. I never bought one except for my reunion tape (10 year) and that was long, but the guy you could tell was focusing on one or two people that weren't really where the party was at.
 
Originally posted by: TerryMathews
I was business editor for our school's yearbook, so I'm probably one of the few people on AT who can speak from the other side.

A) There's more to the cost of a yearbook than the actual 'book'. Deals vary area to area and school to school, but film + developing costs runs into the thousands of dollars per year.

B) If there isn't a good amount of available advertising money, for whatever reason, and your school board forces the yearbook to be self-sufficient like ours was, a bound yearbook may have been out of reach. Our 200 page, 8.5"x11" hardcover with custom hand-drawn covers was $200/copy if you didn't figure in the advertising money.
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hey i was an editor for the yearbook too!
and i do understand that the book is expensive..but for cdrom..u dont need to pay for film, u dont need to pay for color photos, u dont need to pay for pages, and u dont even need to pay for the binding.
 
Well, my school's yearbook crew got a bunch of DSLR's and microdrives this year and are working with the tech dept to put out a DVD-ROM - to be included for free with the hard copy. And they've already stuck me with responsibility for almost the whole deal - I select the DVD hardware, I select the labelling hardware, I select the media, and I get to design the software *woohoo*

HTML, here I come.

Oh yeah, it's all in TIFF, too.
 
Originally posted by: Jmmsbnd007
For 40 bucks those CDs damn well better be pressed, not put on some no-name POS CDR which falls apart in 2 minutes.
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
Originally posted by: xEDIT409
What school is this btw?
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James Madison Highschool in Portland, OR.
 
Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: Jmmsbnd007
For 40 bucks those CDs damn well better be pressed, not put on some no-name POS CDR which falls apart in 2 minutes.
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
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Dude, they're probably just gonna hand a group of kids $1 for each CD they burn and give them a copy for free or something.
 
Last year I was on the yearbook staff. Hard work btw. But, one year, it cost a grand total of $8000 for the yearbook to be made. That was a year before i was there, but last year it was substantially less. A CDROM yearbook is a huge drag. Just takes all the fun out of flipping through the pages looking at pictures of people. That being said, the school is cheap.

Oh, right forgot to mention the prices. If you 'preorder' your yearbook, it's $65.. But, if you wait til the preorder deadline is passed, it goes up to $80. So, we devised a plan to have advertising in the back (parents and local businesses can buy space in the yearbook for a nominal fee) That was effective, but enough rambling.

(I go to a private school btw so money isn't just rolling in)
 
My school put a LOT of time and effort into putting out a quality yearbook. It is really great... hardbound, glossy paper, color pictures....

But they put so much effort into it it never comes out untill the beginning of the following year. So nobody ever gets any signatures 🙁
 
im one of my schools editors. cd instead of yearbook = pos. thats really horrible... i feel bad for her.

what our school did was devious. we conned EVERYONE in our school to buy the book. so it was a lot cheaper. our book costs about 25 dollars canadian each. but then again, we arent HUGE like american schools.

signing is the most important part of the book. thats why we're putting our asses on the line to get it done, and have it all printed and delivered to the school by june. its going to be an awesome sight when everyone in the school has a book and is signing. prediction: that whole school day will be a writeoff 😉

about piracy... thats what this thread is about. link. we're making a cd with pictures of gr 9 camp and we're worried about piracy. the cd is $5 cdn... your gf should be really worried if its FORTY AMERICAN. :|

 
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