BA(Hons) Contemporary Lens Media Showcase
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Success Stories - BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media
Jamie Rae and Daniel Anscombe, who graduated from Contemporary Lens Media this summer, won the Total Film Award for Best Trailer at the inaugural Icewhole.com Quarterly Awards.
Their 80-second trailer for their low-budget horror film, 8ight Limbs, impressed a panel of industry experts with its gritty realism.
Jamie, originally from Northamptonshire, and Dan, who is from Nottinghamshire, rubbed shoulders with film heavyweights like John Hurt and Charles Dance as they collected their award in a ceremony at the Everyman Cinema in London earlier this month.
The trailer was adapted from the 28-minute film which the pair originally produced as part of their coursework at the University of Lincoln.
The film is a horror-thriller in the style of cult low-budget horror classics Saw and Hostel. It is about a young journalist asked to carry out background research into a series of grisly murders by a serial killer known as the Twin Torturer.
Jamie said: We decided to do a conceptual piece where we would keep the same themes and characters but we would each take half the film. We would write and direct one half ourselves and piece it together to make a cohesive story. From that we set about making the trailer in February this year.
We just uploaded it onto various film websites. Before we knew it, the interest was spiralling. It went way beyond what we anticipated.
The pair did not even realise their trailer had been nominated for the award until they received an email telling them they had been shortlisted. Judges from Total Film magazine then decided it was the best of the bunch on the Icewhole website.
Icewhole.com is a networking site where budding actors, directors and writers can share ideas with other aspiring filmmakers and professionals.
Jamie will travel to Los Angeles, USA, to spend six months working as second unit director on a low-budget horror film called The Reckoning. The film, produced by Cupsogue Pictures, will be go on limited theatrical release in cinemas in the USA and UK before a DVD release.
8ight Limbs will be released on DVD available from sales@jamierae.co.uk.
Student Short Listed for International shots Photography Competition
For third year Contemporary Lens Media student Thomas Enderby, the shots Directory 2008 young photographers competition was a chance to record the last stages of his Grandfather’s life.
shots is one of the world’s leading commercial titles for advertising, providing ideas and inspiration for creatives internationally. The shots Directory 2008 young photographer’s competition provides degree-level photography students with the opportunity to show their work to the world’s advertising community.
Thomas has successfully made it to the first round of finalists, consisting of sixty entrants. All sixty finalists will have a sequence of their work included in the shots Directory 2008, along with their contact details. Currently, Thomas is anxiously waiting to hear if he has made it to ten short listed students, from which the overall winner will be picked.
The competition theme for this year is ‘Chapter 3’. This title was chosen to encourage entrants to think about narrative structure, in terms of focusing on a fragment of a narrative. For Thomas, this allowed him to document the final chapter of his Grandfather’s life through taking intimate photographs of he’s house.
It is a prerequisite of the BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media programme that all students should enter a professional competition during their second year of study. Thomas has learnt much from entering the competition:
“Entering the shots directory competition has enabled me to learn how to present my work in the professional advertising and printing industries. Allowing me to understand the details in having work published including size and colour specifications.”
This Working Life
David Tully has been selected as a finalist in the redeye 'this working life' competition LDC (Lloyds bank) photography awards.
As one of the twelve nationally selected photographers, he will been assigned his commission i.e. to work with a company as part of his £400 bursary prize.
Media Student Walks Away With Bronze
A student from the University of Lincoln has picked up an award at a prestigious film festival.
Helen Gibbons (19), who studies Contemporary Lens Media at the university, won the bronze award in the youth category at the British International Amateur Film and Video Festival.
Along with group members Scott Sargeant, Paris Groom and Matt Deeley, Helen received the award for a music video entitled 'Fallen Angel'.
The students produced the video while in their final year of an AVCE qualification in media production at West Herts College.
'Fallen Angel' was based on an original piece of music by the group. It follows the highs and lows of an alcoholic.
Helen, who will begin her second year at university in September, eventually hopes to set up her own production company.
"This award is recognition by the industry that Helen is producing work of a very high standard," said Omar Franco, senior lecturer in Design at the university.
Facilities - BA (Hons) Contemporary Lens Media
The Lens Media Centre is located in purpose built accommodation on the third floor of Thomas Parker House, comprising the following:
Lecture/seminar rooms, animation suite, two photography studios with tungsten and electronic flash lighting, black and white and colour film processing facilities, two black & white and one colour print darkrooms, resource base rooms for photography and video, digital video edit suite.
A range of still camera formats (5x4, 6x6, 35mm and digital) and digital video facilities are available, with access to three computer suites on the second floor of Thomas Parker House.
