River Bluff High School Yearbook Analysis

While most students have an interest in sports or academics, my interest lies within a different category; yearbook. Being on the River Bluff High School yearbook staff has become such an dominant and meaningful part to my life that I would feel incomplete if I did not share my story. The idea of being on yearbook staff was very exciting to me when I was in seventh grade. I always knew that I would be a staffer. I applied to be on the yearbook staff in eighth grade, but my application got denied and I was in shock. Right then and there I wanted to give up, but I did not. I knew that if I didn't try to get on the high school yearbook staff, I would complete regret it. I decided to apply for a position my freshmen year and I was so overjoyed

On a yearbook staff, there are staffers and there are editors. Freshman year, since I was just starting out, I was a staffer which is the lowest position. I was so nervous to create my first yearbook because I lacked skills that are crucial to have in order to create a yearbook spread. You need to have photography, people, and writing skills due to all of the interviewing, photo assignments, and stories that go on a spread. I was lucky if one out of a hundred pictures that I took turned out to not be blurry. Anytime I went to go conduct an interview, I was become so anxious and would try everything in my power to avoid interviews. Luckily, I was semi-decent at writing stories. Throughout my whole freshman year I was a nervous wreck, but thanks to the editors, I made very high quality spreads to which I am still proud of to this day. For my sophomore and junior year, I noticed so much growth. I was able to walk right up to a stranger to get any interview done and done well. I was able to go to my photo assignments so confidently and over half of my pictures turned out to be used in the yearbook. My writing skills skyrocketed and I was