Senior Profile Assignments

ABSOLUTE

Get your subject's senior picture in HIGH RESOLUTION.

DO

Heap on the concrete details!

Make it something the senior will treasure: find what's awesome about him/her

Be SPECIFIC about the life this senior has lived so far.

Spend time with your senior. Use interviews to get him/her to tell you STORIES, MEMORIES, MOMENTS THAT HAVE IMPACTED HIS/HER LIFE.

Find a central metaphor, idea, image or conceit that structures the whole article

Blend LOTS OF INFO into the central image

Surprise us: make the profile just as unique as the person profiled

Share the draft with your subject... get him/her to elaborate, show you more. Revise.

Submit draft one week OR MORE before print date.

AVOID

Cliche

Sap

Lists

Fantasy future

Boring general info presentation