Students from Liberty County Schools are International Winners for Media Production!

Each year students in Liberty County select to participate in their school level media festival competition. Possible student project types include: webpages, podcasts, sequential still presentations, interactive still presentations, and live action videos. Projects are scored using a detailed rubric by volunteers, and only superior projects advance to the next level of competition.

Hundreds of projects are entered each year, but only the superior scoring projects advance to the state festival. An even a fewer number advance to the International Student Media Festival, where project entries are submitted from counties as far away as China and Israel!

The International Student Media Festival was held in Jacksonville, Florida November 9- 12. Sixty-eight projects from Liberty County were deemed winners at the festival. Of those sixty-eight projects, eight were selected as Judges’ Favorites! Only 10% of the projects in the entire festival are awarded this extra honor. Five students from Liberty County received the prestigious Best of Festival Award. Less than 1% of the projects entered in the festival are awarded this honor!

Students selecting to attend the festival were able to participate in hands-on workshops on topics such as video editing, digital photography, multi-media storytelling, stop-motion animation, podcast production, and using iPads for media production. Families attending the festival were able to participate in the awards assembly where students received medallions and certificates.

Visit http://www.ismf.net/video to view the outstanding student projects and to learn more about the International Student Media Festival!