The Worldwide Media Pageant of Wales is in its first yr, and is a sister competition to the Carmarthen Bay Movie Pageant which was arrange by UWTSD’s Carmarthen Movie and Media graduate Kelvin Man. It is going to happen on the 18th-Nineteenth of October in Canolfan S4C Yr Egin on the Carmarthen campus. Will probably be a free occasion and open to everybody.
The intention of the competition is to have fun the most effective of at the moment’s content material creators, programme-makers and media, images and writing expertise right here in Wales and from around the globe. The organisers hope that this occasion will present a possibility for people to community with practitioners and educators throughout the business to share their experiences collectively.
This yr’s competition is being Directed by UWTSD’s Journey Filmmaking lecturer Dr Brett Aggersberg, who can be offering a keynote presentation to open the competition and launch the brand new HND/BA Digital Media Manufacturing course.
Trying ahead to the occasion Dr Brett Aggersberg stated:
“I’m extraordinarily excited to be part of this superb alternative to point out off the revolutionary work being executed by digital media practitioners in Wales. The competition is a chance to have fun the most effective Wales has to supply, be it work from established corporations to unbiased start-ups and college students. This yr we’re lucky to have OM Techniques assist our occasion with their newest cameras at a singular fire-spinning images workshop. We can even be showcasing work by VR artists, drone pilots, and award-winning unbiased manufacturing corporations. I hope this occasion units the bar for the competition going ahead, and that the neighborhood of digital producers in Wales, and additional afield, will mark the event on their calendars as a serious common occasion.”
The competition is being supported by the College, in addition to some native and worldwide corporations reminiscent of OM System Cameras (previously Olympus), Y Sied, Barti Rum, Pembrokeshire Fireplace Spinners, Wales Interactive, and Sparq Fest.
Through the competition, friends can anticipate screenings, exhibitions and seminars. Featured visitor audio system embrace Geraint Radford, OM Techniques macro ambassador; Coleg Sir Gar Lecturer Karl Sedgwick discussing VR; Media To Movement discussing Drones, and Carmarthen Movie and Media Graduate Dan Bailey’s firm Broadside discussing their award-winning and BAFTA nominated movie and business work.
Multimedia entries from the world over can be screened together with work by college students from BA Filmmaking, BA Journey Filmmaking, and Coleg Sir Gar’s BA Images.
There can be a free show by Pembrokeshire Fireplace Spinners on the night of the 18th October, with a possibility to take pictures utilizing OM System cameras.
Because the competition is positioned on UWTSD’s Carmarthen campus, college students from the BA Filmmaking and BA Journey Filmmaking programs will make the most of this by volunteering on the occasion to achieve expertise in working a competition.
Carys Ifan, Director of Canolfan S4C Yr Egin provides:
“It’s wonderful to see the launch of a brand new competition, particularly one that’s celebrating Welsh and worldwide content material created for quite a lot of digital platforms. Yr Egin is a focus for the inventive industries within the area and we’re thrilled to be internet hosting the inaugural Worldwide Media Pageant of Wales. I’m certain the competition can be a powerful success and look ahead to future collaboration. ”
