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The Nuremberg design students were successful with the following entries:
1st prize for TV design
The 1st prize in the “TV Design” category went to Sermin Kaynak, Claudia Rafael, Ingo Walde and Tobias Wiesner for “Penumbra.” The four students share the prize money of 2,000 euros. The jury’s explanation states: “The title sequence for Penumbra convinced the jury through its imaginative combination of 3D and 2D- animation – with professional production quality, this work generates an independent overall aesthetic. Narrative elements are virtuously combined with illustrative details, which, in conjunction with the punchy sound track, create a dense atmosphere – it makes you want to see the film.”
Special prize for best editing
The AVID special prize for best editingcould be accepted by the directing duo Jenny Meißner and Stefanie Schießl for “KAADA: Mainstreaming.” Their prize is the AVID software Xpress Pro worth around 1,900 euros. The jury explained the prize as follows: “If the special cinematic achievement of editing is to shape time and merge narrative and image into a musical unit, then this has succeeded outstandingly in Jenny Meißner and Stefanie Schießl’s music video ‘Mainstreaming.’ Entirely out of the tender atmosphere of John Eric Kaada’s song, the film develops, in atmospherically sensual images and camera movements, the personal independence of a poetically fairy-tale-light story. Through sensitively dosed rhythmic structuring of shot sizes and –lengths, which comes almost textbook-like from the fact that editing is an integral part of the staging, an organic, suspenseful interplay between live-action film and animation, between humans and animated nature, emerges, which touches and resonates beyond the end.”
Prof. Jürgen Schopper is delighted with the winners: “They have shown how witty, imaginative, profound and beautiful stories can be told in the shortest possible time. Congratulations!”
Further links:
- Georg Simon Ohm University of N
