Photo Novel competition

 

Win R500 with your photo-novel

 

The last story - but you were all stars

Our photo-novel competition has reached its final stage this week. All that is now left is for the judges to announce an overall winner, but that will only happen next week.

This week’s winner is Xirimbi Baloyi, another student from Ridgeway College. What we liked about Xirimbi’s entry is the simplicity. He took an everyday occurrence and built a story around it that is light-hearted and entertaining, which is exactly what you would expect from such “comics”. Not to say that photo-novels should not be serious. Previous entries by people like Zwothe Thothori showed that you can address problems in society through this type of story-telling.


From the organisers’ side we need to thank all the people who submitted entries. The competition was well supported by our young readers, especially from Ridgeway College. No special incentive existed for schools to encourage their children to enter, but Ridgeway seemed to have done that and supported the young creative geniuses.


When the competition started, we used our in-house team to get the ball rolling. We thought a couple of weeks might pass before the entries would arrive, but we were pleasantly surprised by the response. In the final two weeks, we received a number of good entries, to such an extent that choosing a winner was difficult. We also feel very guilty about the fact that we cannot publish all the entries, but space simply does not allow for that.


So – a special thank you to the ones who submitted stories that were not used. Thanks to Matodzi Mukwevho – we liked your approach to encourage people not to litter and to show up hypocrisy. Thanks to Sindi Dagada. You had a good concept, but it got slightly complicated and became difficult to follow in just 12 photos. But, with a bit of refinement, it could work.


Thanks to Sikhubuni Beauty for her entry. This one was slightly weird and, unfortunately, it had a “to be continued” part, which obviously made considering it for the last entry difficult. (But it was interesting). Phoebe Joubert’s entry was delightful and if the competition had continued for another week or two, she might have won.


We also had two more entries from previous winners, namely Zwothe Thothori and Nyandano Ramushweu.
Thank you so much. You are all superstars.

 

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