By Jesilyn Renei Ferrer, Staffwriter

Devils’ Advocate

In all honestly, it would be GRRREAT if we had the whole year to make this book, but we don’t. As an editor of the yearbook and being in the journalism class for two years, the staff and I try our very best to have our book done months before graduation. This is because if we did have the entire year to make this book, the books wouldn’t arrive until the summer break after school lets out. So that is why we start it all off with months of planning which begin way before the school year even starts. The students who were journalism last year and who are now seniors this year, Ramon Garcia, Bri Ramirez, Carla Ignacio, Vanessa Vargas, Krishtiana Guarnes and I worked the last month or two of our junior year trying to figure out the theme of the 2016 yearbook, the colors and the fonts to use throughout the book, the overall style and design that we wanted to represent our year. Four of these students had the opportunity to take their journalism skills to new heights by going on a week-long trip to Malibu, near Los Angeles for Yearbook Camp, held at Pepperdine University. There, Ramon, Carla, Bri and I gathered new concepts while working with professional graphic design artists, photographers, writers and editors to gain new ideas to add into our yearbook. This is where we also come up with the theme of the 2016 book, As Seen Through the Devil’s Eye as well as the cover design.

Throughout the year so far, there have been many, many hours of designing visuals, arranging pages, refining concepts, editing text, choosing pictures, and representing the entire student body in 224 pages, as we make them the best they can possibly be. The thing with Journalism class is that we not only just work on the yearbook, we also work on the newspaper, The Devils’ Advocate, and the online newspaper that is on the school website.

Most schools have newspaper and yearbook as two separate classes, but not at SUHi, We take on both all-together, which means twice as many deadlines for us to meet. This is what other students don’t see. We are so over-packed with things to do, there really isn’t a whole lot of time for us to relax. But, we definitely take the time to smile, to laugh, and to celebrate. And, on a good note, HALF of the book is already done; and the rest of the pages are in the process of getting ready to be published. And, as editor, I know that when we take our book to compete at the Del Mar Fair against all the other books in the county, we’re looking for one more first place award that we can hang on the wall as we continue to publish a (master)piece of SUHi history in the 2016 Red & Gray.