Place Name: First Place Contestant Name: Wando High School - Legend Entry Title: Brushing Past Stress Entry Credit: Sophia Mazzi Judge Comment: The dominant photo leaving minimal black empty space on the left fills the page well and the photo is captivating with nice caption placement. Spacing on right page is almost totally consistent and there is a clear separation between the pages without the spread feeling disjointed. Recommendations: moving top right 2 captions down to meet bottom of computer photo frame, add a little space between subhead and body copy, get rid of orphan in pull quote next to body, extra space in headline between "Past" and "Stress".
Place Name: Second Place Contestant Name: Wando High School - Legend Entry Title: Dancing It Off Entry Credit: Mackenzie Corbett Judge Comment: Almost completely consistent spacing throughout with colorful images that pop on black background. Like how dominant photo stretches across spread. Recommendations: Enlarge dominant photo to stretch to full left and top of spread since there's just dead space at top of photo; make sure bottom of captions on right page align with yellow/third photo frame bottom; get rid of orphan in pull quote.
Place Name: Third Place Contestant Name: Fred T. Foard High School - Quatralog Entry Title: On the Move Entry Credit: Nathan Wike Judge Comment: Great dominant photo and unique font choice for headline with overall consistent spacing between elements. Photos on left page look into spread and like the callout to find out “more on racing”. Biggest detraction from this is that it was submitted in pages, not as a spread, so it’s a bit difficult to visualize all together, and spread could benefit from a sans serif font to break up and complement the serif font; watch for orphans.
