Leyton Media Oscars 2014- the highlights

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On Thursday 12^th June, Leyton Media department held its third Oscars event at local cinema Stratford Picturehouse. This popular and well established red carpet event is a celebration of the achievements of A2 Media, BTEC Extended Diploma Media, BTEC level 2 Creative Media Production, and BTEC Subsidiary Diploma Photography leavers. Students and their guests dressed to impress for the evening, making their grand entrance on the red carpet whilst getting snapped by our resident photographer, teacher Scott Goldsmith. They were then treated to a showreel with the very best of 2013/14 media work, and students were nominated in a wide range of categories from best director to best music video, best photographer, best animated shorts and many more. Winners in each category won a coveted Leyton Oscar.

This year saw the introduction of a new category: most promising newcomer, which was won by Jelyseen Chung.  Other highlights included the award of best cinematography, which went to Kimberley Carroll, Sarah Saleh and Ricardo Reveron Blanco for their haunting short film “One by One”. This film was also the winner in the Young Film Maker category of the Walthamstow International Film Festival.  Tamika Aboah won the Most Creative Blog category.  This blog was given particular praise by the OCR Chief Examiner for Media.  He spoke of the way in which Tamika’s site had: “such detail and variety, lavished with care!”

The winner of the most outstanding student, awarded to a student who has shown outstanding commitment, improvement and talent, went to BTEC Extended Diploma student Arzu Dora. Arzu started at college three years ago on the level 2 course and progressed to the level 3.  She has shown extraordinary tenacity and has always committed fully to every project, both on the curriculum, and in enrichment activities. Arzu has achieved the outstanding grade of Distinction*Distinction Distinction.  In addition, during her time at Leyton, her non-academic achievements include producing films for the Leyton Sport team, and taking part in BFI’s prestigious Film Academy Documentary residential.  

We are very proud of our Media leavers and it has been another bumper year for talent, with some excellent films, music videos, blogs, photography and print products produced.

Here is a list of the categories and the winners for each:

1. Best Director: Saif
2. Most creative short film: Solomon, Kishan, Sibel
   3. Most creative blog: Tamika
   4. Best documentary film: Viktor
   5. Most creative animated short film: Zavier (BTEC)
   6. Most creative ident: Tyisha
   7. Best music video: Tina, Jazmin, Zenab
   8. Most creative marketing / promo package: Monique, Hadley, Nyasha
   9. Best cinematography: Sarah, Kimberley, Ricardo
   10. Best Corporate Vid- Sohaib
   11. Best photographer: Tracey

1. Best editor: Arzu
2. Most creative production design + styling:  Saphia, Vancia, Stacey
3. Most promising new comer- Jelyseen
4. Special award for outstanding student: Arzu
5. Best dressed female: Layla
6. Best dressed male: Kash