By Zainie Qureshi
Managing Editor
On the 29th of April, Metea Valley’s media education class placed first in the Music Video category of the MMEA awards held at Neuqua Valley. The music video category is one of the most competitive categories, and Metea won an award in it for the second time.
“It’s really the category that I think you’ll see the strongest entries coming from, so the fact that we won it again this year is a fantastic testament to the things we’ve got going on in here.” media teacher Brent Bloem said.
Their entry featured a story about two people who were in love and were trying to meet, but kept coming to the spot of meeting at different times. “The video’s premises were based upon two people who love each other and are trying to meet each other at a destined point, but they meet one another at asynchronous times. So the accumulation of the video is where they meet at the location that they’re supposed to, but she’s meeting at sunrise but he’s meeting at sunset, so they meet together, and in the background, you see the horizon, and you’ll see the sunrise coming up and the sunset going down simultaneously while they meet. And that’s just tremendous from a special effects standpoint,” Bloem said.
With all the heat surrounding the category, it was essential for the class to work hard at their entry and put their best work forward. “The music video was pretty intense. I’m super happy with how it turned out; there were some technical things that are beyond what some of the kids in this class can do. For example, we shot on a raw file, and on a raw file format it allows you to color correct, so the images came out stunning.” Bloem said.
Since the Mane initially started, they’ve changed a lot of what they used to do, and have made many improvements that have lead to their awards. “I think the Mane has been tremendous; I would hate to show you what it had been before. This year it’s looking really sharp. There’s always things that I want to add on. I’m a stickler for technical things, although our technical skills are superior to what they used to be,” Bloem said.