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[lainey]

I have come up the idea with a yearbook for the Anime North con.

I don't think other cons have it, but I think it's awesome.

I'm going to write up a proposal to the publications head...but I need your help ^_^

Just post in this thread:
http://pub43.ezboard.com/fteahouseof...cID=5 2.topic

that you'd like the idea of a yearbook. If you are willing to help, be sure to state so and a contact e-mail address.

It's not like I'll be working on it or that it's going to happen for sure, but I think it's a good idea.

[archangeli]

I would, except that I'm booked for another engagement that weekend so I won't even BE at Anime North next year. . .

[JustinCredible]

As I said in the original thread,
I'm up for another round of yearbook action... no teachers to trample my creative spirit. Although I would need a steady supply of timbits and anime to make it through

[Mia-P]

Wee sounds good!

[Chosuke]

I like that idea.

[nuriko001]

how much does this year book.. will cost? hehehe
. if it's not as expensive as the REAL year book.. sure make sure it majority IS COSPLAY>>

[lainey]

we don't know....

we aren't sure if it'll happen...

so just help make it happen ^_^

i'll write the proposal this weekend

[Machiko]

cool ^^ i'd luv to have a AN yearbook lol might be expensive though O.o'

[Kia]

Depends on what *kind* of yearbook it'd be. If you're looking at a hardcover one like most highschools have then it'll be VERY expensive. ESPECIALLY if you have colour pages. Those cost the most.
If you want just a little softcover one like my brother's middle school did then I don't know the price of that.... but if we can guarentee a nice bulk order then hopefullly prices may be reasonable.
The only thing I wonder about is that most people would probably want colour pages, b/c they make things like costumes look a lot better, but that'll cost more and cause more people to not be interested... if the proposal gets accepted then it'll really need a good advertising campaign to get people interested in it and boost sales..... but I'm just babbling now....

*Anyways*, if this goes through then you have my help too. I was on staff w/ Justin Credible for awhile, so I can help a little. ^_^
Good luck!

[lainey]

it probably won't be colour...
colour is WAY too expensive...

*shudders* most high school yearbooks are black and white..but the memories of it is still very nice.

i'm sure at the con...when people buy their tickets, they can be asked if they want to order a yearbook...
or set up a booth to order them or something...
and have it available for order online O_o

[JustinCredible]

If anyone is willing to send me to Yearbook Camp, I think I could russle up some color pages

[heki-chan]

from what i remember...

the cost per book if 600-800 yearbooks are ordered for print is about $30-40/book

but then again, taht is glossy pages, hardcover, and about 50 colour pages.


my middle school ones were decent. soft-cover, some colour pages, mostly b/w. but still glossy.

they made about 500 copies, the cost was $25/book.

[heki-chan]

also

Josten's does great yearbooks.

they also give you their yearbook layoutting software.
u send them the layouts digitally (good quality stuff)

makes it real easy to handle

anna n i still have the software...i think. but stil, if we order from them, they will send the software and stuff.

[Kisa]

I think the big questions are:

Who is planning to make this yearbook.
What will be in it.
What kind of quality will it have?
An "Anime North" yearbook will no doubt have great features such as colour, or something, because they could get advertising space to sell, but might have restrictions on content, or worse, because of their sponsors, have to include crap like metabots/yugioh/dbz/YTVHosts....

Is it a 'cosplay' yearbook, or an All-Anime North yearbook? because if it's an All-Anime North one, there's no doubt going to be a majority of stuff a lot of us aren't interested in, and how do you keep there from being like, pages devoted to the English Gundam Voice actors, or guests of questionable apropriaticity in the mind of the fans? No matter what you do, you're going to piss off a lot of people with your choices.

Who is going to Make the yearbook and are they qualified to make it not-suck? I worked on my highschool yearbook and that's harder then it sounds.

how do you keep it from being a yearbook about "The Most Popular" people at the con? Balance so to speak. Does the Jrock room get the same space as English DBZ actors for example.

How are you going to make it worth buying vs. a great colour gallery like Eric's, LLL's ect. Granted, a lot of people have a Lot of $$ to spend at cons. How do you get them to buy one, instead of their favourite DBZ dvds?

[heki-chan]

Maybe to cut down on costs of printing, a free-online yearbook could be made?

I know AN has *some* "official" pictures taken by their designated photographers, but theres never any captions or whtevr. i dunno just a suggestion

they can burn it onto a CD and still sell it if it floats their boat. even if its on computer-format, they can still sell advertising space and whatnots. i dunno^_^;