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Last year Kaimai School had one finalist in the New Zealand Movies and Digital Excellence Awards (MADE Awards). This was a short film entitled “Midnight Robbers.” This film won the Year 4 to 6 category. This year Kaimai School has four entries in the MADE Awards finals.
The first entry through is the Year 4-6 short film by Shyanne Erueti, Tessa Olsson and Tegan Cutforth called “Apple Surprise.” This short film focuses on an apple that makes its way to join the children in the classroom, only to come to an unexpected ending.
Students from Room 3 had to write, film, direct, act and edit their own film. The film had to entertain the viewer as well as create an emotional response.
“The trickiest part of filming for us was getting the apple to roll in the right direction,” said Tessa. “It was also hard for me to try and stay still when filming using the green screen.”
“I am so pleased that our film was good enough to make the finals,” said Tegan. “Especially when we had lost a lot of our edited work and had to start over again!”
“I am looking forward to seeing the audiences’ reaction when we win!” added a hopeful Shyanne.
Kaimai School has also, for the first time, achieved finalists in the Year 7 to 8 Digital Manipulation category. Students are required to take a photo and manupulae it using a programme such as Photoshop. The students from Room 1 had a focus around ‘Global Connections.’
“What is really exciting is that of the six finalists, three are from our classroom,” said Room one teacher, Sonjae Henderson.
Darren Skudder, Reeid Harmsworth and Bianca Collins will all be crossing their fingers that their name is called out on the night.
“I had seen a picture with a man holding a book and I thought it would look good if I made it look like a whole lot of stuff was flying out of the book,” said Darren. “I am really happy with the way my picture turned out.”
“I was surprised that I made it through. This was the first time my work has made it through to a final,” said Reeid.
The finals night will be held at Bay Court on Thursday the 10th of November. The MC for the night will be Shortland Street actress, Kimberley Crossman, with the Supreme Award being announced by Weta Digital’s Sir Richard Taylor.
