Homemade Mountain Movie Awards

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12 May 2008 09:40

It's time for the fourth, weekly, round of the Homemade Mountain Movie Awards. Also this week is a little bit special as it's time to announce the first, monthly winner of the awards. Without further ado, it's over to our expert to give us the lowdown on (and reveal the winner of) his pick of the week.

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‘Kinder Scout’ is a neat little film of a famous walk. Particularly liked the shots showing the waterfall’s famous trick of “going uphill” due to drafty conditions in the gully, the moonscape moor and the hard Northern sheep doing a 100’ VDiff to reach a tuft of grass.

A new shorter edit this week from Dr Cheese’s of ‘Great Gable’. Much tighter than the long version (also here).

‘A Walk in the Yorkshire Dales’ is really enjoyable (but it is a bunch of cleverly strung together stills in a video competition).

‘A Lake District Bothy’ (by Terrybnd again) is a brilliant, moody, well-edited piece of work. Well worth a close look to see how to make simple scenes come over as magnificent.  Has to be this week’s winner.  

Weekly reviews are delivered by Steve Buckley, Head of Film and Video (and keen walker and climber) at Bauer Consumer Media, parent company of LFTO.

• Each week's winner wins a year's YHA membership.

• Videos will be judged every Thursday and the winner announced on Friday. If yours is uploaded too late to be included in one week's judging it will be included in the following week's.

• All videos uploaded at any time continue to be eligible for the monthly prize (Osprey rucksacks), and you are free to re-submit altered versions of films.