An Evening at the Oscars

Saturday 6 th May 2006 saw Farringdon Community Sports College hosting its ‘1 st Annual Oscars’ at the Quayside Exchange in Sunderland.

The evening was arranged to celebrate the outstanding coursework, produced by BTEC and GCSE Media Students throughout Year 10 and 11, some of which had already been viewed by the Royal Television Society at Teeside University and entered into an MTV Boom Competition earlier in the year.

Winners were presented with a ‘mock’ Oscar and invited on stage to give a speech. The Oscars were presented by Mrs. O’Brien and ‘guest presenters’ these included the schools own Mr. Miller, Miss Ashton, Mrs. Clay and Mrs. Bird; Head of School, Mr. Thornton along with, Andy Williams from St Roberts CLC, who worked closely with us on the ‘Animation’ Category and John Howe, the Education Reporter for the Sunderland Echo, who presented the print based awards.

80 Year 11’s attended the evening and great fun was had by all – a full list of the winners can be found below along with some images of the nights festivities.

Images from the night can be found here

Best Horror Trailer and best use of Music:

Kim Gill
Emma Warin
Chantel Gray

for ‘One Girl’

Best Direction:

Bradley Adamson
Cara Riggall

for ‘ Someday (I will understand)’

Best Action / Thriller Trailer:

Martin Adamson
James Baxter
Chris Gettins

For ‘A Time to Kill’

Best Music Video:

Jordan Miller
Daniel Roche

For ‘Anything but Ordinary’

Best use of editing:

Holly Brown

For ‘Slowhands’

Best Actor / Actress in a project:

Rosie Vleugels

for ‘Someday (I will understand)’

Best Print-Based Project:

Steven Hair
Jennifer Wright

For ‘Punked’ Magazine

Best Film Poster:

Anthony Fryatt

For ‘Rivalry’

Best Advertisement:

Scott Borthwick
Chris Price

For ‘Lynx’ Advert

Best Animation:

Marc Collins
Craig Hunter

For ‘Robbery’

Ashleigh Hayes
Sarah Donkin

For ‘The Devil Christ’

Biggest turn-around in terms of hard work / attitude:

Anthony Campbell

Best Blooper:

Sam Riches
Nathan Shaw
James Wilson

For settings used in ‘Revenge’