Andrew Hadley, a media production student with City of Liverpool College, has garnered critical acclaim for his soon to be published academic project.

25 City of Liverpool College students were selected to take part in a film editing competition organised by the college and Culture Liverpool, with the participants stepping into the role of media production professionals. Their task was to edit down footage of Liverpool’s Service of Remembrance & Dedication to create a five minute film for the city council’s website.

Completing the project in his own time, in addition to his studies, Andrew said that all his hard work definitely paid off:

“I am delighted to have won because I know first-hand how skilled other course members are and everybody worked so hard to produce their finished edit.

“This was a real challenge because we were working to tight deadlines and we had to deliver exactly what the client wanted whilst trying to inject some creativity and innovation. I must thank my tutors at The City of Liverpool College for giving me the expertise to complete this project and to Culture Liverpool for the opportunity to work in this real work situation.”

Andrew’s film, along with those of runners-up Gavan Jackson and Rebecca Ellis, were shown to the Lord Mayor of Liverpool and special guests at a presentation ceremony at Liverpool Town Hall hosted by Culture Liverpool.

Pete McDevitt, Head of The City of Liverpool College’s School for Media, Journalism and Production, said:

“This has been an exciting and hugely beneficial project for the students.

“They experienced what it was like to work to a client brief and deliver a broadcast standard product to a tight deadline. I am enormously proud of all the students and it was very difficult to pick a winner but Andy’s cut of the film was an incredibly professional piece of work.”

The Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Councillor Erica Kemp CBE said:

“ This has been a really rewarding project for us to work with the students of the college and see the young people put so much hard work into making a fabulous record of the city’s Service of Remembrance & Dedication.”

Julie Turner, Senior Event Manager at Culture Liverpool, said:

“It is a great pleasure for us in Culture Liverpool to support the nurturing of the future talent of the region. It lines up so well with the objectives we share with the college of skilling our young people to help shape brighter futures and widen opportunities that create jobs in the creative sectors in the Merseyside area.”

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Words: Peter Cribley