Journaling

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Journaling

• In this class, you will learn why journaling is
  important, how to journal, and what to journal on
  your scrapbook pages.

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Why Journal

• Photographs are the inspiration for the written
  word.
• Journaling tells the who, what, where, when, and
  why of a page.

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Create a Title

• Basic scrapbook journaling starts with the title.
• Grab the readers attention.
• Quickly describe the theme of the page.
• Use your photographs as inspiration.

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Single Headline

• Announces something important about the page.
• Description in one phrase.

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Mini-Headline

• Attention-Getting-Device
• Grabs the reader, but does not deliver all of the
  information.
• A mini-headline will draw the reader through the
  page.

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Title and Subtitle

• Title and Subtitle combination creates movement
  on the page.

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Brainstorm Titles

• Ask, What?
• What is going on?
• What are the pictures all about?
• What were we doing?
• What was most fun about?
• What happened?

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Brainstorm Titles

• Think of a Rhyme
• Rhymes are catchy and fun
• Rhymes make a great opening statement for a page.

• Baby in a highchair
• Its hard to be neat when youre learning to
  eat!
• Children in their winter gear
• Dressed for snow and ready to go!

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Brainstorm Titles

• Inside Jokes
• Those funny, silly statements that only you and
  your friends or family understand.
• Use the inside joke as the title.
• Explain the joke in your journaling.

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Brainstorm Titles

• Make a Top 10 List
• Count down to a funny joke.
• List memories from an event.
• Attributes for a person.

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Brainstorm Titles

• Greeting Cards
• Greeting card companies are the professionals.
• Use card poems, greetings, and sayings as page
  titles.

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Brainstorm Titles

• Quotes
• Quotes are the most unexpected and sometimes best
  titles you will ever have.
• You dont have to think them up -- you just have
  to remember them!
• Use quotes from movies, songs, and books.

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Brainstorm Titles

• Have Fun with Words
• Take simple statements, and slightly change the
  words to increase the meaning.

• Paw-sitively Purrfect
• Im Mutts About You
• Flour Power
• The Mane Attraction
• When I grow up I want to bee the best that I can
  be.

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Brainstorm Titles

• Songs and Movies
• The professionals have done the work for you!
• Use songs and movie titles on your pages.

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Brainstorm Titles

• Use Marketing To Your Advantage
• Listen to commercials for jingles
• Use existing magazine and newspaper titles
• Pay attention to your daily surroundings

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Brainstorm Titles

• Alliteration
• Use words that have the same first and last sound
  or letter similarity.
• Double Trouble
• Bathing Beauties
• Leaping Lizards
• Travel Through Time
• Cousins are Cool

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What To Write?

• Write what is on your mind, in your thoughts, and
  in your heart.
• Capture the spirit of the moment or the spirit of
  the person.
• Make your scrapbook meaningful by what you choose
  to include in your written word.

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What to Write?

• Journaling is not just about dates, places,
  quotes, and anecdotes.
• Journaling is about meaning.
• Describe your photos.

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How To Journal

• Four types of scrapbook journaling
• Photo Description
• Photo Caption
• Photo Anecdote
• Photo Narration

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Photo Description

• This type of photojournalism is the most basic
  and provides descriptive data.
• Photo descriptions answer questions.
• Who?
• What?
• Where?
• When?
• Why?

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Photo Caption

• This type of journaling is an explanatory comment
  or quote.

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Photo Anecdote

• A photo anecdote is a short narrative of an
  interesting, amusing, or biographical nature.

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Photo Narration

• A photo narration provides detailed information
  about the photograph in story form.
• Photo Narration includes
• Beginning
• Middle
• End

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How Much to Write?

• Journal First
• Write your journaling before you begin your
  layout.
• This way you know how much room to leave for your
  journaling entries.

• Journal Last
• Create your layout based on the photographs.
• Use journaling to balance the layout or as
  enhancements.

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Tidbit Journaling

• Take a piece of scrap paper and rip it into
  squares.
• On each square, jot down a thought.
• Allow yourself to write down all the thoughts you
  have about the photos.
• Arrange the thoughts into a story.

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Weave A Story

• Write the topic in the center of the web.
• Draw lines from the center and add more thoughts.
• This method allows for tangential thinking.
• Use the web to create an outline for your
  journaling.

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Be A Poet

• Begin with a simple rhyme and rhythm scheme.
• Let your imagination flow.
• There is no right or wrong in poetry!
• DEVIN
• Determined
• Exciting
• Victorious
• Intelligent
• Never the same!

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Word Adjectives

• Think of 10 adjectives that describe a noun.
• Use the adjectives to tell the story.
• England in June can be cold. My windbreaker was
  not enough to keep me warm. Much to my surprise,
  I had to purchase a wool sweater to keep me warm
  in June!

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Conduct an Interview

• If you can not think of anything to write,
  interview other people who were present at the
  event.
• No two people interpret an event in the same way.
• Add a new perspective to your journaling through
  interviews.

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Keep a Journal

• Maintain a journal or two!
• Refer to your journal when writing journal
  entries for your scrapbook pages.
• Once your thoughts are written down, you will
  never forget them.

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Class Exercise

• Let your senses lead the way
• Use your five senses to create a story.
• Think of an event.
• Take a moment and jot down a few ideas about the
  event using each of your five senses.
• Using the notes you just created, write a photo
  narrative about the event.