Winner of Video Competition Announced
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LFTO News Team
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11 November 2011 14:26
BritishCoastGuide.com has announced that the winner of their 2011 Video Competition is Archie Short for his film of Orkney. The short piece shows some of Orkney¹s magnificent coastal scenery of cliffs and beaches, and visitors enjoying aspects of the coastline on this Scottish island group.
Archie Short is a student of film and moving image production at Leeds Metropolitan University. He's currently on an exchange at FAMU (Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts) in Prague, but originally hails from Inverness, Highland. Archie has won £1000 worth of video equipment, sponsored by RegionalTelevision.co.uk which will be presented to him on his return to the UK.
Click HERE to see Archie's video.
Speaking after being notified of his win, Archie said "Winning the equipment is amazing. I will use it to help me shoot short films here in Prague and to develop my own director/cinematographer reel."
The runner-up was a portrait of Portland, Heart of the Jurassic Coast in Dorset by Stuart Morris, a local historian in Portland and amateur film-maker. Other finalists came from Lossiemouth in Moray, Mablethorpe in Lincolnshire and Whitby & Scarborough.
BritishCoastGuide.com is a unique independent video guide to the coastline of Britain. The video competition, which ran during the first three quarters of 2011 attracted over 150 entries from around the whole coastline of Britain. Five finalists were shortlisted, and the eventual winner was decided by public vote during October. Thousands of votes were received, and Archie was the clear winner.