London Film Festival: "Night Bus" 15th October 2013

This trip is for the Level 2 Extended Certificate  and Year 1 L3 Extended Diploma Media students.  We are meeting at Rich Mix cinema in Shoreditch at 10 am prompt.  There are several ways to get there, please look at the link to the cinema's web page.  From Walthamstow or Hackney, you could get the 48 bus or the overground to Liverpool Street and it's a short walk. Use TFL Journey Planner if neither of these works for you, or speak to your teacher as it may be possible to travel with them.  For more information about the film, have a look at the London Film Festival website

London Film Festival- "National Diploma" Monday 13th October @ BFI Southbank

This visit is for 2nd year Media students (A2 and 2nd year Extended Diploma).  We will meet at 9.45 outside Burger King at Waterloo station, where we will then make our way down to the cinema on the South Bank.  Please DO NOT BE LATE.  There will be lots of us and we will leave you behind if you are not there.  Check on TFL journey planner before you go, and allow a bit of extra time.  If you are travelling by tube, you will need to follow signs for the overground station, and come up into the main station concourse, where you will see Burger King (right from the top of the escalator).  If you are NOT going to meet us at Burger King- and want to meet us at the cinema, please let me know before hand.  There are several cinemas at the BFI, so you will need to check with me where to go.
Vanessa

Auditions for A2 Media short films and music videos Thursday 2nd October

Performing Arts students have been invited to attend open auditions with you tomorrow lunchtime in the Drama Studio.  Please turn up punctually and decide what you want them to do- ie. lip synch a track, read some dialogue etc... It is your responsibility to work with the performers and inform them of what you will need. It will also be useful to have an idea of the timescale involved- ie. if you plan to film on a weekend and when.  Any questions, come to find Vanessa or Amy in A23.

London Film Festival news

... Breaking news...
For the second year running, we have been hugely lucky and privileged to secure tickets to the London Film Festival.  This is the most well known, and in our opinion, best film festival in the world and we will be taking a group of Media students to see the film National Diploma, a documentary film set in the Congo.  See here for more details and check with your teacher if you will be going to the trip.  More to follow...

Jason does High School Musical

Leyton Media Oscars 2014- the highlights

**a version of this piece will also appear on the Leyton website. www.leyton.ac.uk Please share and show off about your achievements :-) Showreel to follow very soon....

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

more Oscars pics- inside the cinema

here