Nora

Deadline #1:
To me, the best parts about this spread are the colors and the dominant photo. I love how the circles are placed behind the photos as well as the story. The dominant photo is clear although it does not cross the gutter. Doing this spread, I learned more about captions. My captions here aren't as great as they could have been. Yes, they're in the right format yet their placement and such kind of throw the spread off a little bit. I think the only risk that I took doing this spread was having the green oval behind my story. Also, the story is circular as well which made the page a little bit more exciting. I would improve this spread in many ways after what I have learned. First of all, the dominant photo would cross the gutter. Second, I would improve the placement of my captions. The white space at the bottom of the page was changed after. I included more green and purple circles in between the two bottom photos so it gave the spread a little bit more life and unity. The title would definitely be improved. I would have used a more exciting font to spice up the page a little bit more.



Deadline #2:
The best part of this spread is the pictures. I love the quality and I definitely think that they were worth putting on this page. They are all closeups and the superlatives are great- they identify the Juniors' personalities. Also, the polaroid pictures are great. They definitely add creativity to this spread and define the theme. I learned a lot doing this spread. It definitely took patience in order to get all the names lined up to one another and to perfect it. Also, I had the superlatives cross the gutter considering that they are dominant photos. The risks that Mika and I took doing this spread was the polaroids. We didn't really have a choice to go "all out" with this page but we did as much as we could. By improving this spread- I think the only thing that we could possibly improve was taking care of which pictures we would put on the sides. They were mostly all good pictures but I guess that some of them could improve a little bit.



Deadline #3:
This page is the one that I am least happy about. I guess the best parts about this page are the title and story. But really, that they are not the essential parts of the page. What should be most important is the format as well as the picture quality. The photos cross the gutter and the horizontal eyeline spices up that page a little bit but that was not Alex's and my work. We had great difficulty deciding how the spread would work out because we had such a long story. It was also difficult to get pictures from different venues. While doing this spread, I learned that the story doesn't need to be so long. As long as you have a short yet excellent story- you can format your page whichever way you want. We didn't really take risks while doing this spread. As I said, it was not the best that both Alex and I could do. By improving the ORIGINAL spread, I would definitely shorten the story and get better pictures. After having that done, we could have had a really unique page.





Deadline #4:
This page is my favorite. I worked really hard on this spread and took many risks. What I like most about this page are the shapes that I used. First of all, I took a tennis racket and put a picture in the middle of it. Working from there, I had many little balls around it including every single person on the Varsity Tennis team. Also, I love the dominant photo that somewhat crosses the gutter. What I learned doing this spread is that when you work on a team page, it's difficult to get pictures of everyone. But I believe that I learned it's important to try to include everyone on the team into this spread and somehow incorporate them into it. I also learned a lot about spacing and managing where to put everything to give the page a nice touch. I took risks on this page with the shapes and the horizontal eyeline. I love the eyeline, I think it really gives the page a nice look. The title also works well with the page. I took a risk adding the tennis racket and the balls. The one thing that I would improve with this spread is the group photo. It has nothing to do with formatting but the fact that Mohammed Amin was missing from the group photo. There was nothing I could do about it at that point- but it's definitely aggravating.