Oxfordshire Youth Media Awards Review

Before Christmas, our school was invited to attend an awards presentation for media at Wheatley Park School. This is where our school, along with 4-5 others, would present some of the best AS and A2 media productions that they had to offer to a judge pane and then they would be nominated against one another for an award. The judging panel included the head of the SAE Institute, a successful documentary film maker and Niv Adiri, who won an Oscar for his sound work on the film Gravity.

The Marlborough School had 3 different productions that were shown and of these 3, 2 of them walked away with awards. The music video produced by last year's A2 student Ben Pilston won best music video and another former A2 student, Ellie Bunce, won the award for the best camera work for her music video. Both of these videos will be presented at the bottom of this blog.

From attending this event, I have learnt that their are many different ways in which ideas can be presented and the amount of camera and editing techniques that are available has allowed me to think in more detail about the ones that I will be using in my production. This will benefit me greatly as it will allow for me to produce my final piece with more detail and greater care and this should mean that my final product will be produced to the best quality possible.

Below are the two music videos that won awards for the Marlborough School at the event. Ben's is on the top and Ellie's is on the bottom.