Thanks to everyone who turned up to 'The First Annual A-level Film and Media Studies Awards' today, and commiserations to those that didn't. This was the first year we've ran a simultaneous film and media coursework screening, and it worked pretty well. Technical issues are part and parcel of media production, but still we thank you for waiting a whole hour before being allowed in the theatre!
We won't comment on the films, though suffice to say they were of an excellent standard. But we would like to once again stress that the selection process for the music videos this year. After arguing and bickering for ages, Jack and I managed to get the list down to sixteen, and from there the process got even harder to choose just eight videos.
We had to compromise, and many truly excellent, future A-grade videos were left on the 'cutting room floor'. So congrats to Clemmie and Jordan and Frankie and Alex and Eirin and Noura and Sophie and Kristina. And of course congrats to Clemmie for winning the coveted Golden Microphone and Jordan for bagging both the Jury (AKA the Sam the Technician Award) and the audience vote! But most of all, thank you to every student who completed, independently and with very little experience, an excellent and generically appropriate music video.