National Student Television Association Awards 2015 Hosted by PSTV and LA1:TV
Foreword from the NaSTA Exec Hello and welcome to the NaSTA awards evening 2015. It has been an amazing year, and tonight we showcase some of student media’s finest productions and talent. From Fresher’s TV hosted by utterly brilliant Demon TV to the great regional conferences hosted by Guild TV, Kings TV, SUSUtv and NSTV, NaSTA has grown from strength to strength and we’d like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for being involved and more importantly, being here tonight. We would also like to thank Matthew Murphy and PSTV for organising an amazing weekend and Chris Osborn and the LA1:TV team for all their work behind the scenes. We would like to give a special thank you to all of our esteemed judges and workshop leaders for taking the time to judge the awards, and share the experiences with all of us. You’ve seen the BAFTAs, you’ve watched the Oscars and now get ready for the real show. Have a great night and good luck!
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NaSTA Chair Mia Obertelli
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Mitchell Perry Catherine Darcy
Rob Sumner
Foreword from the NaSTA Host officer Hello, and the warmest of welcomes to the National Student Television Association Awards 2015! If you’ve not seen me already, I’m the ginger guy you have to kneel to be at eye height with who will probably be stood to the side of the room asking constantly you if you’re enjoying the music and the dip, like a high school kid hosting his sweet sixteenth. So have a wonderful night and please don’t tag me in any embarrassing photos.
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NaSTA Host Officer
Matthew Murphy
I’m delighted to welcome you all to Preston for NaSTA 2015. All of our team have really enjoyed watching your entries and it shows the extremely high standard of student TV across the country. No matter what the results you’ve all produced some fantastic content. Enjoy your night and I’ll see you all tomorrow for the AGM!
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NaSTA Deputy Host Officer
Chris Osbron
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TITLE SEQUENCE JUDGE | Tal Rosner
Tal Rosner is BAFTA-winning artist and video director having won the BAFTA for Best Title Sequence for the Channel 4 television series Skins. His work on multi-disciplinary collaborations, from orchestral music and contemporary dance to television graphics, has been described as ‘most astounding’ (The Times) ‘ingenious’ (Variety) and ‘heralding a new genre’ (The New Yorker). With a unique style of digital craftsmanship, he stands out at the forefront of international moving image practice, both on screen and on stage. As a video designer Tal Rosner has spent the last ten years working closely with musicians, combining multiple layers of sound and visuals to create a new language of classical/ contemporary music videos.
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Freshers' Coverage JUDGE | Myles Runham
Over the last 15 years Myles has worked in and around the web and the internet. Prior to the BBC, Myles worked at the search engine Ask.com (AKA Ask Jeeves) managing the as Head of Interactive Learning running the digital services, television and radio output for school pupils, teachers and parents and currently, as Head of Online for the BBC Academy managing all digital and online activity of the professional learning and development functions for staff and the industry. Across this experience, satisfying user need has been the most important guiding principle.
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Animation JUDGE | Simon Wright
With ten years’ experience, Simon previously ran the award-winning BBC Production Talent Pool and Production Trainee Scheme, and now works at VFX, animation and design studio The Mill as Group Head of Talent.
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Video to Music JUDGE | Amber Millington
Winner of the Best Producer award at the UKMVAs 2014, Amber is Head of Music at Agile Films, with producer credits including music videos for George Ezra, Paolo Nutini, The 1975, Alt-J, Klaxons, Ella Eyre and Drenge.
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Music JUDGE | Kevin Molloy produced a year from up-and-coming artists to the world’s biggest stars. He has directorial credits for artists as diverse as Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Rihanna, Madonna, Adele, Robin Thicke and PJ Harvey, and has overseen over 1000 productions large and small from around the world. In broadcast commissions he has overseen bespoke editorial programming for Channel 4, Channel 5, MTV2, BBC Worldwide etc, alongside helping to join the musical dots for clients such as BT, Spotify, The Guardian, NME, Ford, Xbox, HP, Yahoo!, VEVO, Jameson, Orange, Telefonica & many more.
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Factual JUDGE | Nicholas Stylianou
Nick Stylianou is a producer at Sky News. He spent two years producing Sunrise with Eamonn Holmes and now makes the day’s top stories on TV and digital platforms. Previously, he was a specialist online producer at Channel 4 News. He’s also worked at ITV News, BBC News and in local radio. Most importantly, he founded student station rhubarbTV while he was at Royal Holloway and ended up representing them on his own at NaSTA 2011!
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Documentary
JUDGE | Jamie Hay
Jamie is a BAFTA award-winning documentary editor (‘The Nazis, a Warning from History’). At the BBC he worked on leading documentary strands; Timewatch, Modern Times, and Horizon. Since leaving he has edited documentaries for all the major TV channels. He has
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cinematography JUDGE | Chris Yacoubian
Chris Yacoubian has been working in the television industry for nearly 20 years. Having creative one. He has been a Director of Photography creating a unique style for many shows over the years including Gold Rush, The Voice, Take Me Out and Seconds from Disaster. Having made feature documentaries around the globe in all elements from desert heat to the icy landscape of the Arctic Chris is equally at home in the comfort of a huge studio. Having a passion for the craft of lighting and cinematography he is honoured to be a part of these exciting awards and seeing some of the fantastic work produced by the new talent in the industry.”
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technical JUDGE | Peter Weitzel
Peter Weitzel has had a long career in Broadcasting , designing installing and selling Studio OB and Central systems including Coding and Mux. He set the international digital” for many Broadcasters worldwide. He has produced items for Blue Peter and directed for Tomorrows World. He pioneered Audio and Video over IP and Since 2012 he has been the Hon Sec of SMPTE in the UK has run a successful panel session at BVE 15 on “How to become a Broadcast Engineer” building on his 30plus years of mentoring Graduates.
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live JUDGE | Geoff Posner
If I regard Comedy as my job, then directing Live Events is my hobby. Most of these have involved music, such as The Eurovision Song Contest, Live 8, The Prince’s Trust Concert at the Tower of London, both The Queen’s Golden and Diamond Jubilees from Buckingham Palace plus numerous concerts for Children In Need and Comic Relief. I was also on the Directing team for The Royal Wedding, the Coronation Celebration Services from Westminster Abbey plus the middle section of the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympics.
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The Tim Marshall Award for Special Recognition JUDGE | Tim Marshall
After holding senior management positions in the BBC, Tim became senior vice-president at the Walt Disney Company and managing director at Buena Vista Productions He joined Janet, then UKERNA, in 2005. This award was shortlisted by Emma Bew and Andrew Ratcliffe Emma Bew is a former NaSTA chair and is currently working in the TV Industry as a Post production coordinator on a variety of factual programming for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. Previous to this she worked at the oscar winning VFX Company Double Negative and was an active committee member of York Student Television producing a wide variety of content. an alumni. Andrew regularly helps train station members at large events such as the Roses intervarsity, passing on his skills to the next generation of members. Andrew is currently a transmission operator at Ideal Shopping Direct
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Ident JUDGE | Geraint Abbott
Geriant Abbott is currently Head of A/V Production at leading social media agency Telegraph Hill, where he has been responsible for creating video and graphics for clients such as BBC One, Sky, NBC Universal, TGI Fridays, Radio 1 and Hewlett Packard. Before joining Telegraph Hill, Geriant spent several years directing and editing at the BBC, as well as working on a diverse range of TV programmes for commercial broadcasters.
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Marketing
JUDGE | Jonathan Abraham
Jon started off working in the former student tv station of ULU ‘B:TV’ (Bloomsbury TV) and his work here got the attention of SubTV who brought him on board to be a lynchpin between them and the UK student tv community. Moving on from here he went into the mobile comms industry working for a variety of up and coming start ups. He soon found himself working as a mobile brand advertising manager covering central europe for AdMob. Today he is now the head of brand solutions in the UK for Google.
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Comedy
JUDGE | Geoff Posner
After coming off the Director’s training scheme at the BBC, I was chosen to direct Not The Nine O’Clock News, a weekly satirical comedy series. This led to The Young Ones, a series about students sharing a house, after which I produced and/or directed series with and Catherine Tate, as well as Friday Night Live – a live satirical series for Channel 4 – and Little Britain.
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Drama
JUDGE | Karen Thrussell
Karen joined Mammoth Screen in 2012 after two years as Executive Producer at Chorion, Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, Enid Blyton and Raymond Chandler and is currently an executive producer for Poldark two-part thriller IF I HAD YOU. She was also a script editor on MARPLE, POIROT and NIGHT AND DAY.
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Writing JUDGE | Nick Lambon on the CBBC drama Wizards vs Aliens. Before joining BBC Wales, Nick was a Script Editor at Left Bank Pictures, developing two series of DCI Banks for ITV. He also worked in the story
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Light entertainment JUDGE | Mars El Brogy Digital Producer at London Live. Previously, Mars joined the BBC as Content Producer for Vision’s Multiplatform Productions, moving to Online Producer for BBC Three, and then Multiplatform Producer for BBC Entertainment Development. Having ventured into New Media, Mars had the chance to work on Channel 4’s 4Talent Inspiration Sessions, which took place in central Birmingham and brought together some of the world’s leading practitioners to talk informally to groups of up to 20 lessexperienced, but highly talented creatives, providing with an insight from those at the top of the industry.
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news and current affairs JUDGE | Fiona Armstrong
Fiona Armstrong is a broadcaster and writer. She has worked in the media for more than 30 years and is currently presenting ‘Border Life’ a current affairs programme for ITV Border, Fiona is a former ITN and BBC News presenter/reporter/producer. Her overseas’ work has taken her from Uganda to report on the light of Aids orphans, to Cambodia to cover the business of landmine removal. She fronted ‘Executive Lifestyles’ for NBC, and has worked with BBC World News and Radios Sky TV’s ‘Tight Lines’ programme.
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Sport
JUDGE | Mark Chapman & BUCS
Mark Chapman, better known as ‘Chappers’, is the host of popular BBC football highlights show Match of the Day 2, along with BBC Rugby League and 5 Live Sport. He started his broadcast career back in 1996 as a Cricket Correspondent for BBC North East Radio before moving to Radio 1 to work on the Drive Time and Breakfast show with Sarah Cox. British Universities & Colleges Sport are the National Governing Body for Higher Education sport in the UK and have this year been shortlisted for Governing Body of the year in the BT Sport Industry Awards 2015. The shortlist was judged by Justin Deeny, BUCS Digital Marketing Manager.
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Open
Gary Roger
Nicola Gee
Emma Bew
Lou Moss
Rowan Johnson
The Open category is judged by representatives of the Alumni Network of NaSTA, (PaSTA). This team of past for a mental health chairty. All know, love and understand Student TV.
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On Screen feMale JUDGE | Ranvir Singh
Ranvir Singh is the award-winning presenter of Good Morning Britain and ITV News. She previously hosted the Daybreak News hour between 6-7am each weekday morning for two years, as well as the national news bulletins between 7-9am across the ITV network. Ranvir’s highlights while at ITV include reporting from Sierra Leone ahead of the G20 Summit; breaking news of the Boston Marathon bombers being pursued and clarifying the developing situation; breaking news of Oscar Pistorious’ shooting Reeva Steenkamp and covering Obama’s second term election success. Before joining the ITV family, Ranvir spent 12 years at the BBC where she was a producer, reporter and presenter on both regional and national radio and television. “Best On Screen Talent” at the Royal Television Society’s North West Awards.
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JUDGE | Lizo Mzimba
Following on from his humble beginnings in student media, Lizo got a place on the BBC’s journalism training scheme. In 1998 Lizo became one of the presenters on CBBC’s Newsround, where he remained as a reporter and assistant producer for over 10 years In 2008, he became the BBC News Entertainment Correspondent
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JUDGE | Shoshana Wilson
Shoshana Wilson is Director of Global Acquisitions at Fox International Channels. She sources potential projects, negotiates and decides the commercial terms and fees internally and externally for shows like The Walking Dead, Da Vinci’s Demons and most recently, Outcast, as well as working on channel launches. Shoshana started her career at Paramount Comedy/Comedy Central, where she was named Broadcast Hotshot and one of the Top 30 Women under 30 by Company Magazine
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