Sponsored by the Rod Serling School of the Arts at Binghamton High School, the Rod Serling Video Festival has awarded prizes for short student videos each year since 1995. Once again, WSKG TV televised the winning videos... also archived on YouTube.com and linked below for your viewing pleasure!

<---Click to view the complete June 1, 2007 WSKG TV broadcast of the 2007 Rod Serling Video Festival award winners. Access individual videos below.

BEST OF SHOW, 2007

<--Click here to see this year's BEST OF SHOW video, "The Lonely Scarecrow." The judges liked the complete approach to filmmaking, including story, lighting, music, sound effects, design, and animation. It was created by Eleanor Poore, Mary Eberz, and Hope Hastings, 11th grade art students at Vestal High School, who said “Everyone else’s animations in our class were going to be comedies, so we decided to make our serious.”

BEST K-6, 2007     

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to view “The Penguin,” voted by our judges BEST K-6. Created by third graders: Diana Marsala, Melissa Page, Ben Keenan, Savannah Holliday, Francesca Valenti, Kathryn Rohring and Jackson Fickett from Victor, NY.

< --Click here to see "Shades of Night: The Watchers," by Santino DeAngelo, our BEST SCREENPLAY for 2007. The Rod Serling Video Festival certainly doesn’t require that videos have any sort of “Rod Serling” type theme, but we enjoyed the next video’s Serling-esqe style and twist to the ending. 11th grader Santino De Angelo, Binghamton, says his video is only the first of a series called “The Shades of Night.” This “pilot episode” is called “The Watchers.”

BEST DIRECTION, 2007

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to play “We Move Along,” winner for “BEST DIRECTION” by 11th-grader Katherine Banko, from Susquehanna Valley high school, in Conklin, NY. Katherine describes her video this way: “a young girl loses her boyfriend, and his spirit saves her from herself.”

<--Click to view “Through the Light,” winner for “BEST EDITING” in this year’s Rod Serling Video Festival. The filmmaker is Glen Wood, an 11th grader at Chenango Forks High School. The judges were impressed with the fast-paced editing style during the skateboarding sequences, as well as the judicious application of spot slow motion. NOTE: This video starts with music only.

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to see "Penguin Paradise," created by 12th grader Shannon Morrison from Vestal High School in Vestal, NY. It won “Best Use of Music” in the 2007 Rod Serling Video Festival. The judges liked the fact that Shannon employed her friends to play the music that accompanied the dancing clarinet - slash - penguin.

<--Click to play "The Life of Blob," which tied for BEST CLAYMATION this year. Vestal High School 11th graders Sayumi Miura and Michelle Land made the film.

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to view "Alien vs. Astronaut (AVA)", BEST CLAYMATION (TIE), a film by six eighth graders from Maine-Endwell Middle School: Mark Gustafson, Andrew Kahn, Gabby String, Leland Mc Clafferty, Katie Silvestri and Elana Levine.

< --Click to see the winner for best cinematography in the 2007 Rod Serling Video Festival, “Lost Minded,” by Jake Quain. He’s a senior at Chenango Valley High School in Binghamton. Jake shot his video at the Gravel Pits in Chenango Bridge. At the judges’ screening, we were impressed with Jake ’s use of the camera.

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to take a look at "Bear Revenge," one of three honorable mention videos this year, this one by 8th graders from Maine-Endwell Middle School: John Balzani, Andrew Bohunicky, Elizabeth Comstock, Dan Curtin, Josh Garrehy and Greg Parks.

<--Click to view "Zucchero," one of three honorable mention videos. This one is by Christopher Perrella, a 9th grader at Niskayuna High School in Niskayuna, NY.

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to play "Final Memories," an honorable mention video by Jay Ford, a 12th grader who made his video as a class project at Broome-Tioga BOCES in Binghamton, NY.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
          Some award winners have gone on to bigger and better video projects. Joe McIntosh won "Best Computer Animation" in 2001 for "Cold Encounters of the Third Kind."

< --Click here to see "Cold Encounters of the Third Kind," Joe McIntosh's 2001 award-winning video

 

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to see "Viewmaster," Joe McIntosh's 2006 Senior Project for his Film & animation degree at RIT. (Not part of the Rod Serling Video Festival, but interesting to see where Joe has gone with his work).