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The Seventh Schools Video Awards Ceremony saw 56 awards being presented to students and 11 to teachers.
The Ministry of Education and Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s School of Film and Media Studies hosted the Seventh Schools Video Awards (SVA) Ceremony on 20 March 2006 to honour the efforts of 205 schools in their video production ventures.
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| Glittering prizes await the SVA Award winners. |
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The event, supported by the Media Development Authority, featured the Schools Video Awards (SVA) which was open to entries from all primary, secondary and pre-university students. Teachers submitted their entries in their very own Teachers Video Awards (VAT) category.
For their efforts, 56 awards were handed out to students, and 11 to teachers during the Awards Ceremony.
Serving Two Purposes
The SVA was started to provide an impetus for our students to express themselves creatively through the use of video. Over the years, the SVA has evolved and the competition now serves a dual function – that of allowing creativity and expression, as well as the creation of applicable teaching resources.
Moving in this direction, a new award, the Teachers Video Awards (VAT), was introduced this year. This served as a platform for teachers to create videos for classroom teaching.
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| ACS Pri captured the Gold Award for their documentary Handphones for Students, Necessity or Accessory. |
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Video Stars
The competition was intense in this year’s SVA, as it attracted a total of 321 entries from 97 primary schools, 93 secondary schools, 13 junior colleges and the Millennia Institute. Participants worked in a team of six, and with a teacher-facilitator, to produce the videos. ACS Primary, winner of the gold award in the Documentary Category, chanced upon their topic – Handphones for Students: Necessity or Accessory? – when a team member was idly playing with his mobile phone during a discussion.
The biggest challenge was making their documentary interesting, admitted facilitator teacher Mr Raymond Poon. They also encountered technical glitches when shooting the documentary, like the overly loud splashing noise in the soundtrack when Joel, a team member, jumped into the pool. This drove the team to think of innovative solutions. “We got a water polo player to jump into the pool after that,” laughed Mr Poon. “And it worked! We got a ‘nice and clean’ splash that’s not too loud,” he explained.
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| The NUS School of Mathermatics and Science, are thrilled at taking the Silver Award for their drama, The Secrets of Happy Children. |
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NUS High School, winner of the Silver Award in the Drama Category for Secondary/Pre-University students, had a heartfelt reason behind their drama, The Secret of Happy Children.
Said Charmaine Liew, “The story was inspired by our friend Darryl Foo, who left for Australia. We all miss him and wondered if he’s been missing home.” And when team member Dominic Ng, asked the team what home meant to them, the team decided to make it the theme of their entry. Everyone in the team then chipped in with their thoughts and wrote the screenplay.
When Teachers Get Behind The Camera
For Platinum winners in the VAT category Tan Siang Yu, Yong, Jong Shyan and Almeo Tan, the idea of incorporating “childhood imagination” in their entry, The Red Umbrella, came literally from a dream. Siang Yu recounted how he “just woke up and immediately wrote down the idea.” Having been so inspired, the storyboard was drawn up the very next day.
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| Teachers Tan Siang Yu, Yong, Jong Shyan and Almeo Tan emerged Platinum winners in the first-ever VAT cateogry for their entry Red Umbrella. |
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Almeo and Siang Yu found directing the scenes a challenge, as the main character in their video was a young girl pressured to hunker down to complete her schoolwork and perform better in school. Fortunately, as the young actress is Almeo’s daughter, they ran through the scenes together with directions given throughout the filming.
“Our film is about hope and imagination. Young ones have ideas that we sometimes take for granted. By not giving them a chance to express them, we quash the power of their imagination,” said the team about their award-winning entry.
The 2005 award winners had the opportunity to expand their professional practice and explore the educational potential of emerging technologies during fully sponsored overseas trips. The Distinction Award winners went to Microsoft Corporation at Redmond, USA and the Merit Award winners attended the 2nd Asia Pacific Innovative Teachers' Conference in Seoul, Korea. In addition to opportunities to share internationally, they also presented at the International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE) 2005 held in Singapore.
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