This year marks the tenth anniversary of Ireland’s premier student awards – The National Student Media Awards.
The main dates are listed below. There are also links to the list of categories for entrants, and a full list of the competitions rules.
Important Dates
Feb 19 – Closing date for online pre-registration
March 10 – Closing date for submission of physical entries
Smedias 2010 – The National Student Media AwardsScript out loud
This one-day workshop will help screenwriters advance their material by exploring it ‘off the page’. Participants will act out each other’s work and tutor, David Keating (writer & director of The Last Of The High Kings and Wake Wood), will guide writers to improve their dialogue, action and scene descriptions. All participants will do a small amount of preparation prior to the day, which you will email to the tutor. This will include writing 1 or 2 pages of script and analysing each scene according to conflict, exposition and needs/wants of characters. You can bring a camera and ask someone to record your work being acted out, if you want.
About the Tutor:
David wrote and directed The Last of the High Kings (Miramax), starring Jared Leto, Gabriel Byrne and Christina Ricci. His latest feature, Wake Wood (Hammer/Vertigo/IFB), will be released in 2010 and stars Aiden Gillen (The Wire), Eva Birthistle (Ae Fond Kiss) and Timothy Spall (The Damn United, Sweeney Todd).
As a screenwriter, he has worked for Columbia Pictures/Sony and on Mike Newell’s Into The West (Miramax). He has directed TV drama, documentaries and music videos.
He has also mentored on screenwriting labs Equinoxe Germany, Equinoxe TBC France, Moonstone and tutored writers and directors at Mira Nair’s MAISHA Initiative in Kampala for East African Filmmakers.
Date: 1 Saturday, 27th February
Fee: €100 (students, unemployed)/ €130
Contact: Email education@galwayfilmcentre.ie or phone 091-770748
Souce: Galway Film Centre
Script Out LoudThe Altered Images Student Post Production Awards 2010, this is a competition and award ceremony to reward exceptional work in post production, film and television making from students at BTEC, Undergraduate and Postgraduate level.
Why Enter?
Finalists will be invited to the final award ceremony at Broadcast Video Expo on February 18th, Winners and runners up will take away prizes worth over £1000, kindly donated from our sponsors.
Finalists work will be judged and viewed by Industry experts and post production companies from across the UK. This will be a great one-off opportunity for the brightest students to network and display their talent.
This is a competition which is industry led and takes students right to the heart of the industry. If you become a finalist or winner it will look fantastic on your CV.
What work should I enter?
Students can enter fiction or non-fiction video clips of any duration, everything from documentary to comedy will be accepted. Your work must have been completed in the 08/09 or 09/10 academic year to qualify.
How do I enter?
Download the entry form at www.alteredimagesltd.com and post your material on DVD or another format to the given address, alternatively you can upload your video to YouTube. Finalists will be asked to post full quality versions to be shown at the ceremony.
How much does it cost?
There is no entry fee to enter the awards, you will have some costs from posting entries to Altered Images, if you make the finals then you will have to cover your own travel costs to Broadcast Video Expo, Earls Court Exhibition Centre 2, London. Entry to the exhibition is free if you register beforehand at www.broadcastvideoexpo.co.uk
Questions?
If you have any questions please email Altered Images: anthony_johnson@alteredimagesltd.com
GOOD LUCK!
via Broadcast Video Expo & Production Show 2010 – Altered Images Student Awards.
Broadcast Video Expo & Production Show 2010 – Altered Images Student AwardsGriff Rhys Jones, Dara O Briain and Rory McGrath returned for the fourth series of Three Men in a Boat
and this time the trio took in the sights of Limerick.
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Open workflows with Avid and AppleNotes have been added to the box.net after todays class, please could all leaners bring in venue details and floor plans for tomorrows classes.
Today’s visit to L.I.T. provided learners with the opportunity to see the colleges facilities, discover their links with LCFE, Industry and Munster Rugby. Learners were also given insight into an Avid Unity System in action. Pro Tools systems were also in use.
Learners are reminded to enter their work in the L.I.T. Film Festival. Also those learners wishing to continue on to L.I.T should speak to myself about entry requirements etc.
L.I.T. VisitWell done to all those learners who fully participated in today’s filming at St Nessan’s School as part of the Hub TV Project.
The next stage is to capture and edit the work for Friday 4th December 2009 when there will be a Post Production Review meeting with Mark O’Connor. Scheduled for !0:00am (TBC).
Well DoneThe Entry Forms and Articles of Submission for the 1st Annual L.I.T. Student Film Festival (Open to LCFE Learners) are now available from Mark Griffin. The work needs to be completed as part of a student project and the work should have been filmed and edited this academic year.
Those who wish to enter should see Mark Griffin for the necessary forms.
LIT FILM FESTIVAL 2010Mark O’Connor (Northside Learning Hub) will be giving a guest lecture tomorrow in TV & Video Production (EMTV) to explain Hub TV’s latest project where the Northside Learning Hub will be explaining the technology below to learners in secondary schools. The plan is for LCFE Learners to film this project and turn it into ENG News Reports.
WiiMotion- Northside Learning – Hub TV
