This week i have mostly.......

The yearbook is in its final stages and now its just the final details that are being somewhat laboriously raked over, i understand that this is an important process and getting the yearbook the perfect is important however i feel a little like a go between- almost stuck between getting the book how the students envisioned it, in a way that makes the tutors happy and keeps the graphics boys from biting my head off.

After getting the final copy mock up from the boys last Friday i proof read it myself and made amendments on spelling, type mistakes (Beverly's page had the first two lines from Laurens page) image problems (when i had supplied amended images from students that hadn't been changed) Profile photographs changes ( when one students image was in place of another's ( Collette on Gina's page) and when the test shots where still in place of the actual profile image ( Collete's page )
After doing this i had a meeting with Cheryl to go over any other changes and amendments to the book - The Graphics boys were also insisting on copy to be written by Cheryl for the 'Work in public page' as an introduction- (and this is where i felt like a go between) The boys felt like they weren't being heard by Cheryl on why this was an integral part of the book and Cheryl's attitude was that the page was self- explanatory - and me? well i understood where they were both coming from,
- the work in public page is self explanatory- it's work in public and has a list of the public events in the right bottom corner
- in order for this page to fit in with the other pages it needed some kind of copy as all of the other pages had it and if this page didn't - it wouldn't flow as well as the rest of the book did.

Quite a small sticking point which i feel got a little out of hand mainly due to the fact that the graphics boys and Cheryl don't seem to be communicating very well, which is odd because i seem to be getting daily emails and messages from them. In the end the problem was resolved by the actual showing of the book to Cheryl - who hadn't seen this final version the boys seem to be getting a little mixed up to as who their client is and need to be showing this stuff to Cheryl as she is ultimately the person who need to sign the book off before it goes to print.

As you can tell from these photographs - quite a lot of minor adjustments were needed, thankfully when i went to the Graphics studios to talk to the boys they weren't too daunted by all of the sticky notes, and i was told that it would all be corrected by tomorrow and that they would send us the amended PDF of the book