Avid Awards 2012!

As the second year was only just beginning, we were all in for a pleasant surprise. Avid, the makers of video editing software that we use in university in first year, had decided to very kindly sponsor an Awards Evening in association with the Liverpool Screen School. This was in order to celebrate all of our first year films that we had made, not just on our course of Media Professional Studies, but also on Film Studies and Broadcast Media Production. I thought that this was a good idea as it allowed for all newly second years to get together and appreciate each others work, as we don't normally get the chance to see what each other has done. 

I was fortunate enough to be nominated for 'Best Location Film' and 'Best Factual Film'. I was so proud of my group and myself to be even nominated for 1, let alone 2 awards for 2 different films. It gave me the realisation that this was definitely the right course for me, and it felt amazing to have work that I played such a huge part in, actually be appreciated by industry professionals. It was also lovely to see that quite a few of my friends had been nominated too!

Here is a link to the film that was nominated for 'Best Location Film':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlUmpUoECvA&feature=player_embedded

Hopefully soon I will put up the film that was nominated for 'Best Factual Film' 

So awards night came, and my uni mates and I all went down to the Redmonds Building for the grand ceremony to begin (well it was in a lecture theatre but one lecturer was wearing a tux so it was basically the Oscars). We took our seats and the anticipation was flying through the air. It came to our first nominated category, 'Best Location Film' and unfortunately we lost but the winners definitely deserved it. More awards were given to others then it came to our second nominated category, 'Best Factual Film' and we WON!!! I then had to awkwardly go down in front of every and accept the award with my group. I was really happy to win the award as it proved, not just to me, but to others who may think I am a slacker, that I actually work hard and do the work well. 

Here is the LJMU article on the awards night:

http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/NewsUpdate/index_124551.htm

Winning definitely inspired me to continue working hard as it showed myself that I've got the ability to succeed. It also inspired me to start making my own films in the summer as I don't want to be distracted from uni work, but watch this space!

Here's my award:

Also major congratulations to my good friend, Joe Costin, who won 'Most Original Film' with his group. And thankyou to my group of Cathryn Appleton, Lois Bunker and Molly Dale for being an amazing group to work with!