THE
RESULTS
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| General Excellence |
Broadcast A
Category 1 Spot production
First place - Ballard Memorial High School - Paige Graves & Jacob Miller - A professional look. Not overly done. The “less is more” concept worked on this cyber bullying spot.
Category 2 Newscast
Certificate of Merit - Ballard Memorial High School - Jeremy Green, Kirk Tucker, Jonathan Whipple & Lacy Williams - Good overall effort. Watch those audio levels. Some too hot, some too low. Some anchors have good on-air deliveries while others seem unprepared. Know your copy before the newscast. Practice reading it aloud over and over before going on-camera. It really helps.
Category 3 Music Video or Short Video
NO ENTRY
Category 4 Humorous Feature
First place - Ballard Memorial High School - Jake Shorer, Aaron Finley, Josh Lucas & Jeremy Green - One of the few entries in this category to have a beginning, middle and end. But watch those audio levels! Music level in the middle was much too hot.
Second place - Ballard Memorial High School - Jake Sharer, Jeremy Green, Kirk Tucker & Josh Lucas - Funny concept but not as funny as the duel with markers in the first-place entry. The end was overly done with the repeating of the last jump from the box. Didn’t quite warrant replaying in slo-mo but good job overall.
Third place - Ballard Memorial High School - John Oliver, Paige Graves & Jacob Miller - This entry had the best production values of the top three finishers. But it’s hard to pull off making a funny spoof of something that’s scary.
Category 6 Documentary
Certificate of Merit - Berea Community High School - WBCB staff - Watch the camera work. Too jerky for most viewers. But an interesting look at the seldom-seen parts of a school.
Category 7 News Feature Package
First place - Ballard Memorial High School - Jeremy Green - An interesting look at a high school blood drive. A very professional-looking news report with a strong finish thanks to your singing teacher.
Category 8 Sports Feature Package
Certificate of Merit - Ballard Memorial High School - Ricky Beard & Bobby Terrell - Slow down a bit in your delivery. A little hard to discern everything you said while on-camera. But overall, a good effort.
Category 9 News Package
NO ENTRY
Category 10 Sports Package
NO ENTRY
Category 11 Vo or Vo/sot
NO ENTRY
Category 12 Videography
NO ENTRY
Category 13 Newscast (Radio)
NO ENTRY
Category 14 DJ show
NO ENTRY
Category 15 Sports Play-By-Play
NO ENTRY
BROADCAST AA
Category 1 Spot production
First place - Henry County High School - Brittany Cottrell & Sarah Grigsby - Nice message -- good visuals. Story is told well. I like the creativity.
Second place - Henry County High School - Kaitlyn Foree & Shannon Martin - Great effects -- very creative. Good video edits.
Third place - Elizabethtown High School - Laura Pait & Jacqui Powell - Interesting way to tell story -- good job. Shots were well done.
Honorable Mention - Bardstown High School - Victoria Stallings - Creative -- looked real. Good effects -- like the black and white.
Category 2 Newscast
First place - Henry County High School - WCAT News Team -- Sept. 2007 - Nice flowing intro but a little long. I like the 9/11 anniversary story. Good use of short video moved it along. Overall, good effort.
Second place - Bardstown High School - Ashley Wainscott & Kathleen McGinnis - Good story selection. Good use of video. Some reporters need to have microphone closer to mouth so we can hear them better. Still pix were good but needed more video. Fire story was good. Editing in spots could have been better.
Third place - Bardstown High School - Elise Jones - Good editing of “spotlight” intro. Needed more video and fewer still pictures. Newscast was good but a new set would have helped. Sports editing had lots of jump cuts. Need to use tripod. Good effort overall.
Category 3 Music Video or Short Video
First place - Corbin High School - Austin Anders - A creative and imaginative concept that is carried out well. Starts out in black and white in keeping with the noir theme and effectively switches to color and the “detective” solves the case-like all good detectives.
Second place - Bardstown High School - Vince Smith & Cody Adams This video has humor, creativity and clever production techniques.
Third place - Elizabethtown High School - Lindsey Aulbach, Carrie Hammond & Caroline Lallo - Classic story of the pains, joys of young love told in an interesting and engaging way through superb videography and editing.
Category 4 Humorous Feature
First place - Henry County High School - Kaitlyn Foree - A clever narrative that is superbly performed and produced; ends with a surprising and funny twist.
Second place - Pike County Central High School - Tyson Mauk & Bobby McKinney - Creative and ingenious production skillfully executed with the right mixture of levity.
Third place - Henry County High School - Skylar Watson & Derek Craigmyle - Wonderful physical humor-great facial expressions and lively action scenes by the performers.
Category 5 Newsmagazine
First place - Henry County High School - Wildcat Magazine staff A fast pace and good storytelling using your video content makes this a fun show to watch. A cut above the rest.
Second place - Elizabethtown High School - Eye on E-town - Segment pacing is a little slow. Tighter editing would help. But it’s a strong product overall. Anchor has good on-camera energy.
Third place - Henry County High School - Wildcat Magazine staff You have mastered the art of keeping the audience’s attention with a fast-paced program with lots of different folks on camera.
Category 6 Documentary
First place - Elizabethtown High School - Laura Pait & Jacqui Powell - This entry has quality visuals with good editing. An informative narration complements the interviews. But let the interviewees speak for themselves: the evangelism at the end is unnecessary.
Second place - Bardstown High School - Sarah Berger - Informative interviews accompany a reasonably persuasive narration, and most of the visuals suit the narrative. Be sure to keep your audience in mind at all times: In a couple of places, it loses its focus on the experience in America.
Third place - Pike County Central High School - Tyler Hamilton, Zack Tibbs & Colby Slone - This video has a moving narration, visuals from diverse sources and a good mix of historic and recent material. Watch out for mixed audio levels -- and poor grammar (e.g., “Those who have went ...”)
Category 7 News Feature Package
First place - Elizabethtown High School - Lynsie Dickerson, Renata Patton & Sarah Simpson Very compelling story as told by the interviewee’s own words. Great writing to video and shooting the things referenced in the video. Good videography and editing.
Second place - Elizabethtown High School - Courtney Cheatwood & Shelby Hinton I loved the quick soundbites off the top. It really drew me in. Great framing of the interview. I loved the shots/quick soundbites. Very professional.
Third place - Henry County High School - Shannon Martin & Ben Roberts - Short and sweet. Great length. Good video. Good variety. Well framed interview. Very watchable. It kept my interest.
Honorable Mention - Henry County High School - Shannon Martin - What a great and difficult topic to explore in a high school news story. Great access to medical personnel. Very compelling info and message. Video and editing were not as strong as the topic itself.
Category 8 Sports Feature Package
First place - Elizabethtown High School - Trevor Deneen, Darrian Williams & Sarah Simpson - Neat idea. It was “real.” Great reporting. Good voice and script. Nice use of nat sound. Good editing.
Second place - Henry County High School - Chessica Louden, Kate Vegh & Jesse Ottersback - What a neat story for someone not from the school to watch. You “saved the surprise” twice. Very nice, good editing. Great piece but a little too long.
Third place - Henry County High School - Sarah Grigsby - Good story, very watchable. Good editing. The topic was very interesting. Good use of visuals.
Category 9 News Package
First place - Henry County High School - Kaitlin Blair, Kara Blair & Katie Mertz - Good topic. Good interview. Good b-roll. Everything was well planned and professional. It was a little long though. Good use of graphics.
Second place - Henry County High School - Derek Craigmyle - Lots of good interviews. Good sound and lighting. Good use of A and B roll.
Third place - Henry County High School - Ben Roberts - Good idea and topic. Short and sweet -- good length. Good interviews and b-roll but I would have liked to heard or seen interviews with the students being tutored to see what they thought.
Category 10 Sports Package
First place - Henry County High School - Brandon Goodwin & Tim Ashby - A very timely piece on how extreme heat impacts athletic practices. Effective video editing allowed the video to tell the story.
Second place - Henry County High School - Michael Parrish - Good editing of video. Certainly tells the story but maybe a little too well. Seemed long, too much of different people saying the same thing. Tough choice between first and second place.
Category 11 Vo or Vo/sot
NO ENTRY
Category 12 Videography
First place - Bardstown High School - Daniel Tyler - Tight editing connects the themes of coma and captivity in this visual narrative. The lower at the end adds a nice touch.
Second place - Elizabethtown High School - Craig Schmidt, Doug Blakely & Tyler Henry - Stylized writing corresponds well with the visuals.
Third place - Henry County High School - Shannon Martin - A little too gimmicky but the visuals do capture the mood of the soundtrack.
Category 13 Newscast (Radio)
First place - Corbin High School - Matthew Hensley - Smooth delivery. Good enunciation of words. You obviously prepared beforehand and knew your copy which is always what a newscaster should do. Watch regional dialects that can creep into speech patterns. But nice work.
Category 14 DJ show
First place - Corbin High School - Jeremy Kimbler - Nice voice. But a little rushed in your delivery at times. Slow down a bit when saying, “Red (pause) 95-point-3.” Give it a little emphasis to make it stand out in the listener’s mind. I loved the formatting of this station with promos, pre-sell of upcoming songs, back-sells and the constant pushing of the brand Red 95-point-3. Good work. And the scoping is good too.
Second place - Corbin High School - Matthew Hensley - Good enunciation of words. Very smooth delivery.
Third place - Corbin High School - Jamie Hammons - Liked your delivery -- “Red (pause) 95-point-3.” That makes it stand out in the listener’s mind. Good job.
BROADCAST AAA
Category 1 Spot production
First place - Taylor County High School - TNT staff Interesting flow, nice piece.
Second place - Waggener Traditional High School - Michaela Joseph - Good work, covered a variety of territory.
Third place - South Oldham High School - Drew Littrell - Good presentation of those that don’t have talent to get point across.
Honorable Mention - South Oldham High School - Brittany Beck - Nice way to present it.
Category 2 Newscast
First place - Russell County High School - WLKR News staff - Very creative and very professional. The school obviously has many professional resources to work with. Great set, good reporters. Good pacing. Could’ve used more video in some spots.
Second place - South Oldham High School - Dragon News students - Good use of resources. Good story selection and length. Show had lots of energy and felt “fun,” as well as informative.
Third place - Thomas Jefferson Middle School - Broadcast students - Outstanding use of existing resources -- especially at the middle school level. Nice news set. Good use of teleprompter. Interviews and videos would have helped make it better. I can’t wait to watch them on TV in a few years.
Category 3 Music Video or Short Video
First place - South Oldham High School - Laura Smythe, Allison Hoffman & Kaleesha Wentworth - A lively, humorous and entertaining video that immediately captures the viewer’s attention and holds it throughout. Skillful performances and production; fun to watch.
Second place - South Oldham High School - Eli Miser, Lauren Scanlon, Lauren Jones & Nicole Allgood - This production moves seamlessly through the story of traditional gender roles and then just as seamlessly and expertly when roles are reversed.
Third place - Paul G. Blazer High School - Luke Nunley - A riveting work that creatively uses a variety of creative production techniques that keeps the viewer entertained and engrossed.
Category 4 Humorous Feature
First place - Taylor County High School - TNT staff - The loser with the refrain about “living in a van down by the river” has a SNL quality.
Second place - South Oldham High School - Kellan Nix - Bad smells and unreturned phone calls will save you the trouble. She will break up with you!
Third place - Waggener Traditional High School - Colin Sage - Foggy black and white video with cheesy special effects illustrate the program’s sophistication.
Category 5 Newsmagazine
Certificate of Merit - Taylor County High School - TNT staff - Nice solid effort. Good variety in the content.
Category 6 Documentary
First place - South Oldham High School - Megg Ward - Extensive reporting on background and operations of a vital service for many people in Oldham County. Report provides thorough coverage through skilled interviews and superb photography.
Second place - South Oldham High School - Thomas Catalano & Lauren Scanlon - An informative and well-produced feature delivers vital information to students about an important support service.
Third place - South Oldham High School - Thomas Catalano - Action-packed video that captures the excitement, drama and joy of the school’s football season.
Category 7 News Feature Package
First place - Waggener Traditional High School - Lauren Dillman - Very well shot and good story line. Covered a lot of the childcare subject.
Second place - Waggener Traditional High School - Chris Ontiveros & Angela Owen - Well shot -- good variety of shots and editing. Interesting story.
Third place - Waggener Traditional High School - Patrick Laliberte - Well shot. Well edited. Good story. Videographer did well in following rifle sequence.
Honorable Mention - South Oldham High School - Hannah Latzko, Thomas Catalono & Lauren Jones - Interesting story -- a good cross section of students and jobs. Needed more shots of them doing their jobs.
Category 8 Sports Feature Package
First place - Waggener Traditional High School - Angela Owens & Chris Ontiveros - Well-produced feature on an interesting program in Jefferson County schools. Photography is sharp, interviews with instructor and students expertly handled.
Second place - South Oldham High School - Chelsea Skidmore, Rebecca Flanders & Erin Kramer - This feature gives recognition to a group of students usually not recognized. Interviews helped viewers understand what Drumline is and why it’s so important to those who participate.
Third place - Thomas Jefferson Middle School - Brett Bibb - Reporter showed knowledge of the team’s gloried past and offered good insight into the team’s prospects for the new season.
Category 9 News Package
First place - Waggener Traditional High School - Jordan Resnik & Chris Ontiveros - Great use of nat sound. Great interview location. Creative photography. Perfect length to keep my attention. Good pacing.
Second place - Waggener Traditional High School - Jennifer Donlon - Good use of video. Well lighted and framed interviews. Good use of nat sound. A little long though.
Third place - South Oldham High School - Ian Bailie & Lauren Scanlon - Nice use of a music bed. Lots of good “man on the street” interviews. I loved having the iPod give-away video. Very compelling. A little long though.
Honorable Mention - South Oldham High School - Megg Ward & Chelsea Skidmore - Good length. Good mix of videos and sound. Interviews were shot a little too wide.
Category 10 Sports Package
First place - Waggener Traditional High School - Spencer Elbert - The interviews with the coach and players show enterprise, and the game shots are clear. Beware of varying audio levels.
Second place - South Oldham High School - Eli Miser, Chelsea Skidmore & Hannah Latzko - The inset narrator over basketball footage adds visual interest. Watch out for inadvertent sexism: “girls and men.”
Third place - South Oldham High School - Kellan Nix - Nicely written voice-over with various shots of practice ... interviews would have spiced up this report.
Category 11 Vo or Vo/sot
First place - South Oldham High School - Kellan Nix - Nice smooth delivery. Work on sounding a little less nasal and a little more conversational.
Category 12 Videography
First place - Waggener Traditional High School - Lauren Dillman - Good shots of all the aspects of child care. Well done. Thanks for using a tripod.
Second place - Waggener Traditional High School - Chris Ontiveros - Well shot -- a variety of shots. Give me a few more close-ups. Thanks for using a tripod.
Third place - Waggener Traditional High School - Marc Cooper - Well shot. Good variety of players. Kudos for using a tripod.
Honorable Mention - South Oldham High School - Allison Hoffman & Laura Smyth - Good variety of shots. Story weaved very well.
BROADCAST AAAA
Category 1 Spot production
First place - Graves County High School - Lauren Whitis & Chelsea Grissom - Good spot with nice build-up to the message. Good imagery. Very original.
Second place - Graves County High School - Emilie West, DeeDee Burkeen, Adley Riley & Haley Thompson - Nice piece. Good use of video. I especially liked the shot from inside the locker. Original and relevant. Good work.
Third place - Shelby County High School - Josh White & Taylor Powell - Comical production. Good video.
Category 2 Newscast
First place - Graves County High School - WGCE staff - Overall excellent job! Set is impressive. Great open with sound and video. Good anchoring -- would like a tad higher mic levels though. I liked the field reporting. Teases for the next show and the next day menus are good and informative. Make sure stories are brought full circle -- felt like a couple ended unnaturally and without conclusion but still very good. Looked like great effort with field reporting, video and other elements (like all the tape). Excellent work that’s unmatched in this category and class.
Second place - Oldham County High School - OTVX Newscast 12-18-07 - Anchors are good; good transitions. Very good packages. Interviews were transitioned nicely. Good use of natural sound and video as well. Might practice enunciation and vocal quality for slow, clear and consistent delivery. But still not bad at all. Overall, a good newscast and some excellent reporting.
Third place - Oldham County High School - OTVX staff - Good anchoring. Transitions are good. Good story line-up.
Category 3 Music Video or Short Video
First place - Graves County High School - Andy Dew - Quality camera work and editing complement the Christian barn grunge. (But the final scene in front of the church didn’t complete the narrative smoothly.)
Second place - Shelby County High School - John White & Taylor Powell - The plot may not be entirely clear, but the focus on the smudged door and on the actors’ torsos was effective.
Third place - Oldham County High School - Leslie Wishnevski & Chris Downey - The images may be disconnected from the lyrics, but the song is good and the music performance is nicely integrated with the city and park scenes.
Category 4 Humorous Feature
First place - Oldham County High School - Jared Wilson & Will Marshall - The straight delivery and the cute sight gags make this satire of a TV news special report work. It helps that the subject of the humor suits the classroom location.
Second place - Shelby County High School - Josh White & Taylor Powell - Conceptual silliness with a soundtrack that worked ... the final dance scene needed polish (and it needed to lose the girl in the background).
Third place - Shelby County High School - Josh White & Taylor Powell - The girl’s impish interjections steal the show. Why no costuming?
Category 5 Newsmagazine
First place - Graves County High School - WGCE staff - A clearly superior product. Your co-anchors are dressed appropriately and look very professional. They do a very credible job of introducing segments. Segments themselves are edited nicely and flow at a fast pace but tell their stories very effectively..
Category 6 Documentary
First place - Graves County High School - Kelsey Rowland - Excellent work! Nice video and great interview. Good use of still photos. Like the background music.
Second place - Graves County High School - Travis Kerns - Nice piece. Good reporting. Good vocal quality. Interesting facts.
Third place - Oldham County High School - Chelsea Ryan - Good piece and very entertaining. Kudos for originality. Slow your script pace down a bit and give us a little more time to see the pictures. Be sure to keep video still. May need a tripod. Also consider lighting too. Overall, a good piece.
Category 7 News Feature Package
First place - Fern Creek Traditional High School - Matt Dewit - Good story, very well shot. Something a bit different about subject matter which makes the right elements of a feature story.
Second place - Oldham County High School - David Larson - Interesting way to approach subject matter. Let it move a bit quicker.
Third place (TIE) - Oldham County High School - Leslie Wishnevski - Well done. Showed a variety of the critters.
Third place (TIE) - Graves County High School - Adam Hayden - Good story. Pretty well shot and told.
Honorable Mention - Oldham County High School - Chelsea Ryan - Interesting scary story. A bit long but OK.
Honorable Mention - Fern Creek Traditional High School - Nicole Melius Good story. Using a variety of shots. Good editing.
Category 8 Sports Feature Package
NO ENTRY
Category 9 News Package
First place - Oldham County High School - Elaine Alvey - Good job covering an interesting topic. Very good vocal quality and good use of natural sound (highway noise, etc.). Good interview. Perhaps interviewing someone who’s struck a deer might have made it better. Also, be careful not to make editorial comments. As reporters, we can’t speculate that someone is “working diligently.” We can say: “...government officials say they are working diligently..” however.
Second place - Oldham County High School - Chris McDaniel - Nice job covering an important topic that’s relevant to students. Good vocal quality and nice use of natural sound (running water, etc.). Leave off “This is...” in your outro. Simply say, “Chris McDaniel, OTVX.” Good work.
Third place - Oldham County High School - Erin Stolworthy - Good story. Good opening stand-up. Good interviews but watch for too much background noise that drowns soundbite. Keep the video still -- use a tripod if you have to. Overall, good work.
Honorable Mention - Oldham County High School - Chris Downey - Good story. Good video and soundbites. Nice feature piece overall.
Category 10 Sports Package
First place - Graves County High School - Scott Burch & Adam Clapp Good use of video and good work on interviews. The stand-up was good but be sure to identify reporter with on-screen graphic. Be sure to keep video still -- use a tripod. Also, lose the music in the background. It distracts audience from the reporter’s voice. Overall, very nice work. Tight package on interesting topic.
Second place - Graves County High School - Adam Hayden - Good story. I liked the transition between interview shot and b-roll during coach soundbite. In the future, try different camera shots during the interview and alternate them in the story. You might use a close-up, then a head and shoulders shot. It gives viewers some variation, Also, make sure the reporter always has control of the mic in an interview. Try to frame the shot without the mic.
Third place - Oldham County High School - David Nolan - Good package that addresses a relevant topic. Good use of natural sound. Be sure to keep video still. Also, when framing interviews alternate your subjects from left and right screen to provide some contrast to viewers. Very nice piece.
Category 11 Vo or Vo/sot
First place - Oldham County High School - Brett Ringswald - Very nice voice and smooth delivery. Just a little more energy in your delivery would make it even better.
Second place - Oldham County High School - Ted Van Cleave Very professional delivery. Pick up the pace just a bit.
Third place - Oldham County High School - Amber Love & Cary Craycroft Nice work. Good pacing. All students from all schools in this category should work on pronouncing words correctly and avoid clearing your throat while recording.
Category 12 Videography
First place - Graves County High School - Travis Kerns & Andy Dew - Great effects and edits. Good storytelling -- it was easy to follow and had a message.
Second place - Oldham County High School - Leslie Wishnevski - Edits go along with music -- they don’t seem choppy -- nice! Like the fading in and out of main character.
Third place - Graves County High School - Andy Dew & Travis Kerns - Nice effects -- video seemed like a dream. Sound matched video nicely.
Category 13 Newscast (Radio)
No Award Given
Category 14 DJ show
First place - Fern Creek Traditional High School - Scott Christman - The clear winner among several entries. Nice voice, nice professional, well-paced delivery that sounds natural, not forced. You could take your high-school experience and build onto it for additional future opportunities. Suggestion: when entering a contest or making a tape for a future job, please scope the presentation. That is, cut out 99 percent of the music. They want to hear you and not the music.
Second place - Fern Creek Traditional High School - Kristi Farmer & Paula Johnson - Work on your enunciation. The word “hour” does not sound like the word “are.” But you have a good understanding of what DJs do and sound like. Work on sounding more natural. Your scoping was better than some entries.
Third place - Fern Creek Traditional High School - Nick Davis - You have a nice voice but are trying too hard to sound hip, cool or whatever. Work on sounding more natural and not so forced. Try just talking normally. I think it might work. Scoping on CD was good but could have been tighter.
Category 15 Sports Play-By-Play
First place - Graves County High School - Adam Hayden & Jamie Kendall - You have the basics of play-by-play and color commentary down. But work on improving the play-by-play a little. I sometimes felt like I didn’t know what was happening on the court. Really work to paint a vivid picture for your listeners’ minds eye.
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