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MEDIA INNOVATION AWARDS WINNERS ANNOUNCED

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Plymouth businesses were presented with seven awards at the Media Innovation Awards 2010 gala dinner held at St Mellion International Resort last night to recognise the innovative use of media and design in the region.

The evening was introduced by Mark Hawkins, chairman of the Media Innovation Awards, and hosted by BBC Radio Devon presenter, David Fitzgerald.The award winners of the 15 categories were announced with Plymouth businesses winning awards in the DVD/CD, Corporate web use, Independent film/video, Photographic, Photographic use, Collaboration between business and young people, and Outstanding contribution to innovation categories.

Karen Stockdale of the Media Innovation Awards said, “There is hot competition to win one of the coveted Media Innovation Awards and all the winners can be very proud of their achievement as only the finest work has been selected to showcase the wealth of creative talent in the region.”

Company of Designers, a co-production with Routeways in association with Plymouth College of Art and Sunridge and funded by Plymouth City Council won the DVD/CD category with Someone who Listens, which ‘skilfully combined a variety of media resulting in a well produced, inclusive and engaging DVD’.

Twofour won the Corporate web use award for Exeter Family Website, which was produced for Exeter Friendly and was judged ‘an engaging website with a very innovative interface that made the subject matter much more accessible and understandable for clients’.

The Independent film/video award went to Sundog Media for Sea Front which was ‘a very atmospheric and nostalgic production that was beautifully produced’.

The nominations for the Photographic category impressed the judges so much that they decided to give an extra award for Photographic use. The Photographic award went to Joakim Boren for British Design 2010 commissioned by Taxi Studio for BIS Publishers - ‘an excellent series of images that captured a vision of an England untouched by the homogenisation of “starbucks” culture’. In recognition of the way photographs have been used to challenge perceptions and change relationships the judges awarded a Photographic Use award to Routeways Centre produced by Routeways Equal Voices, Stonehouse Youth Project, Devon and Cornwall Constabulary - Plymouth Youth Team, and Plymouth Children and Young People's Trust for ‘an innovative and interesting project giving young people a voice and an interest in photography’.

Growing Live! – a collaboration between Silverstream TV, The Herald and five sixth form students (Jason Hill, Callum Alexander, Adam Hill, Alex Alawode and Adam Bartlett) won the Collaboration between business and young people category for ‘a great initiative that involved young people in an authentic experience using professional equipment to produce a real outcome’.

David Pritchard won the Outstanding contribution to innovation award for proving to be ‘one of the most innovative Directors of his generation and for continually innovating in a fast moving, demanding and audience-driven environment’.

The awards were presented by representatives from each of the award sponsors and were as follows:-

TELEVISION
Sponsored by Silverstream TV

Sari Stories- A Sequoia Films production, commissioned by Al Jazeera English for the Witness strand, presented by Rageh Omaar (Poole, Dorset)

DVD/CD

Someone Who Listens – Produced by Company of Designers, a co-production with Routeways in association with Plymouth College of Art and Sunridge and funded by Plymouth City Council (Plymouth)

COMMUNITY WEB USE

Dott Shot - Created by Gendall Design, a co-production with SEA Communications commissioned by Dott Cornwall supported by the Design Council, Cornwall Council and University College Falmouth (Falmouth, Cornwall)

CORPORATE WEB USE