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Alex Victoria

22669 Matana Drive

Saugus, CA 91350

alextoriaa@gmail.com

(661) 414-4450

OBJECTIVE

To accomplish something worthwhile in life.

EDUCATION

Saugus High School, 2011-Present

4.5 GPA

Top 5% of the class

EXPERIENCE

Sword & Shield, School Yearbook, Saugus High School

• August 2013-Present, Student Life Editor

Experience in designing layouts, delegating assignments, and leading staffers.

• August 2011-August 2013, Student Life Staffer

Experience in taking photos, fi lling in layouts, and writing copy.

RELEVANT HIGH SCHOOL STUDIES

Honors English 9; Honors English 10; AP English Language & Composition.

HONORS, AWARDS, AND MEMBERSHIPS

First Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo. 2013

Roots Christian Ministry, Leader. 2013-Present

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self-analytical

I began my journey through yearbook in eighth grade

when I joined Arroyo Seco’s yearbook staff. I was on staff

for two semesters, and at the end of eighth grade, I got

an award for the book. Throughout that year, I mostly

worked on photography and spread design. I later

joined Saugus Yearbook once I became a freshman and

started as an editor my junior year. I learned skills such as

working in InDesign and Photoshop, meeting deadlines,

and working as a team. Also, I help with advertising near

the end of the year, along with the rest of the staff. As a

staffer, I was committed to working with my section editor

and fellow staffers to achieve the greatest pages possible.

Now as an editor, my responsibility is delegate tasks to

my staffers while simultaneously completeing my own

pages and keeping the balance between yearbook and

four AP classes. Some hardships I faced were meeting

deadlines and grading my people’s pages while having to

do my own interrupters at the same time.

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design

My portfolio theme, “Back to the Basics,” is based on

my experience through high school. As everything gets

more and more complicated from, the end of your junior

year is when you need to just calm down and narrow

down what you need to actually do. You need to pull out

your paradigm and look at the big picture of what you’re

going to do for the rest of your life and how you’re going

to do it. I chose to use basic colors, blue, red, orange,

purple, and green, to demonstrate the simplicity of my

theme. My colors are cut to 50% opacity and set on a

plain white background to further demonstrate the basic

design. I used squares because they are the most simple

shape. Also, my main font, Helvetica Neue LT Std 45

Light, is a fundamental sans serif. I didn’t take inspiration

from anything, the theme just came to me. I like how my

end product turned out because it fi ts what I was thinking

when I fi rst thought to use “Back to the Basics.” Basically,

simplicity is the key.

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One of my favorite spreads that I created this year was

my August interrupter, whhcih was on summer camps.

This idea came from one of my editors-in-chief, Soleil,

because by using this topic we could showcase students’

activities outside of school. My basic design is a picture

of Hume Lake bleeding off all four sides of the spread with

a photo package on the top right and a timeline spanning

the bottom half of the page. The photo package on

top was about the main focus of the spread, Hume

Lake. I used photos submitted from HumeLake.org. The

bottom timeline contains students who were counselors,

academic campers with international students, sports

campers, and band students at a summer camp located

at Saugus. The photo package at the top was about

the main focus of the page, Hume Lake. What I really

liked about this page is the dominant picture of the lake

in the background. This is my favorite type of interrupter

because it connects everything in the layout.

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This piece is my October interrupter on activities that

take place during brunch and lunch. I started with a

panoramic picture with branches coming off the top and

bottom of the panorama to indicate certain points of

action in the photo. Eventually, I nixed this idea because

of the diffi culty of designing a spread with a long, thin

picture. Also, becasue of the shape of Saugus’ quad,

it was diffi cult to get a good picture of a high-traffi c area

of the school during brunch or lunch. I developed this

design because it is essentially the original design but

vertically, and only one sidebar with facts and fi gures

about the photo. I used spot color on it because that is

our theme this year. Also, I incorporated lines and the

black and blue parts of our theme. I think that this wasn’t

my best work because I didn’t know it was due so I had

to pull it together very quickly. If I had the chance to

improve this piece, I would redesign the whole thing but

still use the same subject matter.

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My fi rst picture is from the fi rst time I took photos this year,

at the the staff dinner on the fi rst day of school. It is of an

ASB member and one of the teachers’ kids going down

a huge infl atable slide that was in the quad. I took this

picture by sitting at the bottom of the slide to catch their

reactions. It’s good because it’s from a worm’s eye view

and it shows a lot of action and excitement. The second

picture is from a last-minute gathering of student to try

to protest the fi ring of a history teacher, Mr. Peterson. A

junior named Destiny, the main action of the photo, was

standing on the bench next to Peterson’s classroom and

passing a petition around to protest the administration’s

decision to fi re him for being negligent. Although we

didn’t use the photo due to it being “dubious subject

matter,” I still like the expression and worm’s eye view.

My third photo is of Chad and Kristen at AP Team’s living

history night. It was used as the reference divider. I like

the worm’s eye view and the expressions on their faces.

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Y17: Academic Photo. The academic photo I am using

is of my friends Chad and Kristen on Mr. Klipfel’s living

history night for AP Team. They participated in this to

get extra credit for APUSH, therefore making this an

academic photo. I like the excitement on their faces and

the worm’s eye view paradigm.

Y18: Feature Photo. A feature photo shows students in

their natural environment. This photo of Destiny preaching

next to the K building qualifi es because it shows how kids

are reacting to administrative decisions, in this case, the

fi ring of Mr. Peterson. I like how you can see emotion oon

her face and that it’s from a worm’s eye view.

Y24: Information Graphics; Single. This is my December

interrupter on Every 15 Minutes. The whole thing is

basically one big timeline, which is a graphic. Within the

timeline, I have different kinds of sidebars, such as Q&A,

captions, and a straight quote. I like it because it’s not a

regular interrupter and it’s different than everything else.

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After being in yearbook for four years, I have most

defi nitely improved my skills such as working in InDesign

and Photoshop, as well as gaining leadership and camera

experience. Starting in eighth grade, I took pictures and

designed layouts, but Mr. Tracy placed the pictures in the

spread and wrote the captions. Then once I joined the

Saugus Yearbook staff as a regular Student Life staffer,

I fi lled in the pages that my editors-in-cheif, Sonia, and

Megan, designed. My section editors, Haley and Soleil,

designated tasks to me to do, such as which pages to

complete and which events to take picures at. I also did

the same thing sophomore year, but defi nitely gained

more experience on all aspects of yearbook, which helped

me to apply for section editor as a junior. Now as a

section editor, I am more heavily focused on design rather

than fi lling in pages. I am currently training to be editor-

in-chief next year with Hannah. All of the experience

throughout the years have prepared me for this.

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design

I didn’t really have any inspiration for my interrupter

design, I just kind of thought of it myself. My design is

loosely based off another hypothetical interrupter that I

made and didn’t use last year, though. It had a vertical

half-cob of someone painting, with the top cobbed part

being a skyline of different colored paint bottles. The left

side was a few different sidebars about the topic. This

interrupter here is kind of based on this because it is a

half-cob with sidebars. Again, I used the picture of Chad

and Kristen at Klipfel’s living history night. I used this

picture for the half-cob because it was clear and dynamic,

as well as having a fi rm horizon line to use as the basis of

the cob. Also, I placed the caption on top of the photo

because it looked good there and wouldn’t fi t anyhwere

else. I put a rough cob background because I like how

that looks. The sidebar on the left came in part from the

design of my original October interrupter that I ended up

not using.

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