The first interview didn't really affect the topic of my presentation, but it did sort of affect the content. I chose to talk about theme, but in order to properly explain theme, you have to have a good yearbook example. According to Joseph Chan, mastering writing, photo, and design is essential to creating a good yearbook. So, I picked one of my favorite books which I felt had mastered writing, photo, and design, which was Brentwood High School's "Where Brentwood Happens" yearbook.
2.) What do you say stood out about your presentation performance and why?
When I used the book for my presentation, I wanted to show what thought goes into making a yearbook theme smooth. It's sort of difficult to describe a "smooth" yearbook theme, but it's a kind of theme that doesn't get drilled word-for-word into your brain from repetition, or gets boring from being used too often throughout the book. A good theme plays on words, mixes and matches related phrases, and integrates itself into the very structure of the book (i.e. section titles, and how the book is designed or formatted.) A good theme doesn't scream at you. No, a good theme should seem gently patted and kneaded into the pages of the book. There, the theme becomes one with the format and the style of a yearbook, and becomes second-nature to the reader, an underlying and almost unseen part of the book. I wanted to show that to the class, and that it isn't just award-winning books like Brentwood that are able to do this. iPoly does it too. So, besides explaining Brentwood's book and how their theme was woven in, I also pulled examples from our past books, to try and create that little "a-ha!" moment in the eyes of the iPoly readers.
3.) What was the most challenging thing to do and why?
The most challenging thing to do, in my opinion, was try and come up with something for my 5-minute that I wouldn't need to use for my final presentation. I don't want to limit my options for activities and topics too much.
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