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Want to boost sales? Create a commercial for your yearbook! Play it during morning video announcements, post it on the school website, or just upload it to YouTube and pass the link around. Here are some of the best yearbook commercials I’ve found online right now. Maybe they’ll inspire you!
P.S. If you DO create your own commercial, let me know, so I can post it up here, too!
Yearbook Commercial - Concord High School - Watch more Funny Videos
If you haven’t seen “Font Conference”, first you need to click here and watch that first. Then come back here and watch the sequal… (Thanks, Carla, for sharing this!)
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
I came across both of these fake yearbook spreads in the same day, so I had to post them. Alone, they’re not post-worthy (… at least not to me). But together, they once again show how much yearbooks are a part of our lives.
This is the cast of the movie New Moon, the 2nd in the Twilight series, currently in production. This fake yearbook spread of the cast was made by a fan for newmoonmovie.org
With a husband in the video game industry and a dad who bought me every video game console ever released since the first Atari (more as an excuse to get it for himself than really for me), I can’t help but appreciate this fake yearbook spread of famous video game characters posted on www.pwnordie.com, a site for gamers. They used video game “cosplayers” (short for “costume roleplayers”) instead of the animated ones to make the spread look more “real”…
The following tips are from Bill Simmons, sports columnist, who posted them on ESPN.com. (Why is ESPN giving yearbook tips? Not sure, but I guess that just goes to show how important yearbooks are in our culture!)
“Some tips about your yearbook choices:
- Never say anything maudlin or sentimental about the person you’re dating — you will be linked to them forever and ever. Just remember, when you get to college, you will break up with them by Columbus Day Weekend, probably get back together during Thanksgiving Break, then break up for good during Christmas vacation. Everyone thinks, “Oh, it won’t happen to us.” Believe me, it’s going to happen — 99 out of 100 people eventually break up with their high school flames. So keep the gooey stuff to minimum. If you’re devoting a quote to your significant other, choose this one: “Dead man walking!”
- Never gratuitously thank your parents, friends, family … that’s just lame. Nobody wants to read that stuff. If you want to thank someone, thank a teacher. They devoted their lives to helping kids like you, you ungrateful slob.
- Make a conscious effort to include obscure references and inside jokes that will confuse everybody and please your friends, especially if they’re dirty and/or secretly defamatory to someone else in your class. One catch: Don’t make them so obscure that you won’t have any idea what they mean 15 years later. That’s no fun.
- Don’t identify your friends by their initials. Just write their names. Years later, you won’t even remember what half the initials stood for.
- If you have a close friend of the opposite sex, don’t spend too much time on them … odds are, one of you will end up making a move on the other one down the road, it will play out badly, and you will never speak again. And even if you make it through college, once you get married, your spouse won’t let you be friends with them anymore. So start cutting ties now. Again, just trust me.
- Most importantly, have fun with your quote. Nobody wants to read how miserable you are, or how confused you are, or how much you hate everyone, or how everyone underestimated you, or how parents and teachers are purely and simply evil, or the world’s keeping you down, or how nobody loves you … come on! It’s high school! Everyone’s miserable in high school! That’s why they created high school! So have some fun. I’ve always been jealous of my buddy Geoff for picking this yearbook quote:
Absolutely brilliant. Everyone else was killing themselves coming up with these tortured quotes, and Geoff mocked the entire thing. Why didn’t I think of that? Damn him…”
Simmons then lists several quotes he wishes he would have used back in high school. Here are just a few…
“Some mistakes you never stop paying for.”
– Roy Hobbs
“Don’t have anything in your life that you can’t walk away from in 30 seconds.”
– De Niro in “Heat”
“Cheer up, Brando! How ’bout a mega-burger?”
– Nat Busichio
“I have three rules which I live by: Never get less than 12 hours sleep, never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city, and never go near a lady with a tattoo of a dagger on her hand. Now you stick with that, and everything else is cream cheese.”
– The basketball coach in “Teen Wolf”
“Those fans who are booing me now will be cheering for me when I record the final out in the World Series”
– Bob Stanley, April 1986
To read the entire list (and it is a LONG list), click here.
Or lend some seniors a helping hand by posting some of your favorite quotes below…
Does your staff need some creative inspiration? Or maybe just a good laugh between deadlines? Here are some bus advertisements to get their creative juices going…
For more creative bus ads, visit the original post on toxel.com
This is Mary McDonnell (Battlestar Galactica and Grey’s Anatomy) posing for her portrait as Captain of the Cheerleading Squad in the 1970 Ithaca High School yearbook.
Click here to see more yearbook photos of Mary McDonnell.
Can you match the celebrity to their yearbook photo? Pictured below our the yearbook photos of…
Click on the photo to see the answer.
Thanks to HollywoodFail.com for originally posting these photos.
Can you guess who’s who? Pictured below are the yearbook photos of…
Click on the photo for the correct answers.
For more politicians’ yearbook photos, click here to visit “vetocorleone.com” (but don’t click on the “Death Masks of U.S. Politicians” page (creepy…. but still kinda cool… in a very creepy way…)
If your staff is going to play online games between deadlines anyway, here’s one that is at least yearbook related:
http://www.fatratgames.com/index.php?params=game/2983/High-School-Yearbook/
The goal of the game is too zoom in on different students and click your camera at just the right moment to frame an embarrassing picture (i.e. straw appears to going up someone’s nose, person standing in front of a hot dog display appears to have hot dogs growing out of head, etc… Basically, everything we spend all year teaching the kids NOT to do).
The Cullen gang in the Forks High School cafeteria
Do the words Bella, Edward, Jacob, La Push, and Forks bring chills of excitement to you? Well, Forks High School, where Bella and Edward of the “Twilight” book series met, is now offering you a chance to be a part of the official “Twilight” spread of the official “Twilight” High School! For only $2, you can vote for your favorite locations from the books/movies that will appear in the yearbook. In addition, everyone who votes will have their name printed in the book. Visit the Forks High School website for more information and to download an official entry form.
What does this mean for you?
As you brainstorm your themes for 2010, think about what your school or town famous for? How can you incorporate it into your theme? Better yet, how can you turn it into a fundraiser? Brainstorm ways to get the community involved!
And don’t forget the virtual community. Think about how many “Twilight” fans Fork High School has reached globally by placing their contest info on their school website! And don’t just stop at your school website, use social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace to advertise your book and contests as well. Don’t know how? Ask your students!
Yet another funny movie about the use of fonts in Movie Posters…
Is your yearbook staff in need of a good laugh? Show them this clever video about a “Font Conference”…
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