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10.27.2006

On Friday, October 27th, IAR held it’s first highly anticipated AFP (audio for post-production) Festival, which turned out to be a huge success. The festival was hosted by IAR staff member and creator of the festival, Nell Gwynn and post-production audio teacher Dan Gaydos.The standing room only event for IAR students showcased creative lab projects of fourth quarter students done in their audio post classes and included screenings of movie trailers such as Lara Croft’s Tomb Raider and SAW II, movie scenes from Sin City, Speed 2, Lord of the Rings and Chicken Little, television commercials for Playstaion2, Travelocity and Volkswagen as well as animation. The students were responsible for creating Foley, ADR, sound effects, music and mixing each of their projects.

Awards

Overall Production in Audio-Post:

1st Place

Michael Gruebel

Raphael Gibbs

Vinny Guerrera

2nd Place Ariel Acevedo

3rd Place

Tyler Koos

Due to the great success of the first Audio for Picture Awards Festival, IAR held it’s second highly anticipated AFP Awards Festival on November 15th.

Students submitted television commercials, animated short films, video game trailers, movie trailers and movie scenes. It was a difficult task for the audio post-production faculty to choose the winners and outstanding achievements, as all of the submissions were excellent.

01.19.2007

On March 9th IAR students gathered for the third AFP Festival, but this time with a twist. Submission finalists were judged and critiqued live at the festival by an IAR faculty panel which included Noel Smith (Dean of Faculty), Zack Goldberg (Audio-Post Instructor), and Bob Kirschner (Audio-Post Instructor). The students were extremely receptive to the compliments and critiques that the panel had to offer.

Awards

Overall Production in Audio-Post:

1st Place

Saki Aihara

Tyson Martin

2nd Place

Danielle Werling

Neil Lipuma

3rd Place

Ayanna Obando

Anthony Gambale

03.09.2007

Awards

Overall Production in Audio-Post:

1st Place

Greg Lewis and Josh Levine

2nd Place Frank Colon and Steve Alvarez

3rd Place

Shantel Rosa

Oustanding Achievement for:

Sound Effects Creation

Frank Colon and Steve Alvarez

Music Supervision

Frank Colon and Steve Alvarez

Sound Effects Editing

Greg Lewis and Josh Levine

Creative Work

Rodrigo Galvan

Oustanding Achievement for:

Sound Effects Creation

Maximo Estrella,

Ariel Acevedo

Bruce Brown

Foley Supervision

Frank Caputo

Music Supervision

Issa Williams

Production Sound

Vladimir Ulysse

Robert Staton

Rahsaan Jones

Engineering for Audio-Post Kristhian Santiago

Michael Simmons

Issa Skomske

11.15.2006

Awards

Overall Production in Audio-Post:

1st Place

Edmanuel Leonor

LIeeshell Lehman

2nd Place JT Hargrove

3rd Place Sharod Smith

Jose Ruiz

Outstanding Acheivment Awards:

Music Composition

Andrew Powell

Dialogue Supervision

Mike O'Brien

Royer Parra

Troy Hinson

Music Supervision

Sagil Myrthil

Sound Design

Jose Ruiz

Sharod Smith

Edmanuel Leonor

Foley Recording

Darryl Hollis

Music Editing

Dan Mennella

Sound FX Editing

John Holland

Overall Project Management JT Hargrove

2007 kicked off with the third AFP Awards Festival. Fourth quarter IAR students eagerly submitted their audio-post production projects to be judged and then screened for their peers at the festival. Edmanuel Leonor and Lleeshell Lehman took 1st Place, J.T. Hargrove 2nd Place and Sharod Smith and Jose Ruiz 3rd Place. They were all awarded Apple Store Gift Cards for their dedication and overall work on their audio-post projects. Outstanding Achievement Certificates were also given to students in specific categories as Sound FX editing, Music Supervision, Dialogue Supervision, Foley Recording, Sound Design, Music Composition and Overall Project Management.Congratulations to all of the IAR students who participated and a special thanks to Nell Gwynn and James Garvey who make the AFP Festival possible.

On June 5th, IAR held its highly anticipated Audio for Picture (AFP) Awards Festival, which showcases fourth quarter IAR student audio post-production projects. Over 35 projects were submitted ranging from movie trailers, television commercials, television scenes, movie scenes, videogame trailers and animated short films. Students are responsible for sound effects, editing, music, dialogue replacement, mixing and foley.The festival was packed with IAR students and faculty. Pre-fourth quarter students eagerly watched on as many said that they could not wait to participate in the festival when they reach their fourth quarter. At the end, the festival host, Nell Gwynn announced the AFP Award Winners and Oustanding Achievements, which were given in several categories and judged by IAR faculty.IAR would like to thank the students who participated, Nell Gwynn, Dan Gaydos, the judges and IAR tech support James Garvey and Scott Nawrocki.

Awards

Best Overall Audio Post-Production:

1st Place Christopher Anderson, Greg Carmichael

2nd Place Nick Beckler, Casey Zanowic, Jon Brennan,

Jay SeibertMichael Santangelo, Anthony Russoniello

3rd Place Michelle Koch, Trevor Duncan

Outstanding Achievements:

Best Overall Post-Production:

Shin Kamei, Gilian Gandy, Tyler Hartman, Michelle Koch, Trevor Duncan

Christopher Anderson, Greg Carmichael

ADR Casting and Directing: Claude Paul

Music Editing: Casey Zanowic, Nick Beckler

Project Management: Daniel Selsam, James Chapman

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06.05.2007

On August 29th, IAR again held its Audio for Pictures (AFP) Awards Festival showcasing the audio post-production projects of fourth quarter students. Over 25 submissions were entered ranging from movie trailers and television commercials to animated scenes. Students selected a segment of video and added their original sound effects, editing, music, dialogue replacement, mixing and foley. The projects were submitted in one of three categories based on length. The Short Format was 30 seconds, Medium Format 30-90 seconds, and Long Format over 90 seconds. A winner and runner-up were selected in each category, and various awards for outstanding achievement were distributed. The packed audience consisted of grads, students and guests, and they were presented screenings of each of the projects submitted.

IAR would like to thank all of the students who participated, the judges, Nell Gwynn, who organizes and manages AFP, and IAR tech support for Ileeshell Lehman, James Garvey and Scott Nawrocki.

Short Format

Winner: Keiichii Morinaga

Runners-up: Assante Livingstone, Chris Kilcullen

Medium Format

Winners: Yessenia Rodriguez, James Shelly

Runners-up: Gary Tchorzewski, Nicanor Trinidad

Long Format

Winner: AJ Shamus

Runners-up: Anthony Collier, Angelo Davila

Outstanding Achievement Awards

Best Dialog: Roman Chimienti, Danielle Parente

Original Score: Asfar Khan, Scott Marlowe

SFX Editing: AJ Shamus

Original Soundtrack: Assante Livingstone, Chris Kilcullen

Best Music Edit: Stafford Velasquez, Meir Weinberger

Best Sound Design: Anthony Collier

Best Mix: Tambi Younes

Best overall Soundtrack: AJ Shamus

Audience Favorite: Luis Alvarez, Victoria Angueira

AWARDS

08.29.07

On the first of November, 2007, IAR held its Audio For Picture (AFP) Awards Festival, open to students in their last quarter at IAR, when they have the Audio Post Production class. Entrants selected a segment of video and took out the original audio. They then had to replace the audio with original work including music, sound FX, foley, and dialog. Participating students collaborated on projects, and worked as teams to add character voices and share ideas. Final submissions for the AFP Festival were judged, screened and awarded at the event. Pizza, popcorn, and beverages greeted the spectators as they entered the room. Every seat was filled and every bit of standing room was taken, with students and faculty spilling out into the hallway.

The projects were classified into three areas based on length: Short Format, Medium Format, and Long Format. The video segments the students chose were incredibly diverse and ranged from popular current movies such as 300 and Blood Diamond to unexpected movies such as Big Trouble in Little China and Kung Fu Hustle. Also used were the animated movie Street Fighter, a Sony Playstation television commercial and a parody of the A-Team television show with IAR instructors in the lead roles.

The entertaining event was a perfect ‘send-off’ to those students who had just graduated IAR the day prior. Staff member Nell Gwynn, who hosts the AFP events, announced the winners and remarked, “In the single year we’ve been hosting this event, the quality has skyrocketed.”

AWARDS

Short Format

Winner: Michael Roland, Roy Santiago

Runner-up: Dennis Tyrrell, Frank Turbe

Medium Format

Winner: Ackeil Rowley, Jonathan Sekula

Runner-up: Austin Redmon

Long Format

Winner: Kalon Dansereau

Runner-up: Jean Moten

Outstanding Achievement Awards

Creative Choice: Troy Sampson, Frank Coppola

Overall Production: Kalon Dansereau

Automated Dialog Replacement: Austin Redmon

SFX Editing: Ackeil Rowley, Jonathan Sekula

Project Development: Robenson Salomon, Jean Moten

Audience Favorite: Troy Sampson, Frank Coppola

Austin Redmon, Nell Gwynn, DanGaydos, Michael Roland

Zack Goldberg, Flavio Gaete,

Kalon Dansereau

Lyell Loyd, DanGaydos

11.01.2007

IAR hosted the Audio for Picture Awards Festival on Wednesday, November 21st. Students and faculty enjoyed viewing the dynamic and diverse projects IAR’s FB class created. It was a night to recognize and reward the hard work students put into their submissions and celebrate their accomplishments.

AWARDS

Short Format

Winner: Ariel Alejandro, Alex Kouros

Runner-up: Atsuo Matsumoto

Long Format

Winner: Jason Perno

Runner-up: Thomas Gelhaus

Outstanding Achievement Awards

Overall Production: Jason Perno

Automated Dialog Replacement: Alexandra Blackman

Sound FX Editing: Thomas Gelhaus

Audience Favorite: Ed Farrell

11.21.2007

The Spring Audio for Picture (AFP) Awards Festival was a great success. The festival showcased audio/video projects from four IAR class sections, the most of any festival. Students were required to take a pre-existing video of their choice and recreate all sound effects, dialog, musical scores, and foley. The projects were limited to three categories based on time length: Short Format, Medium Format, and Long Format. The larger number of applicants yielded a very diverse and creative field of projects such as commercials for SAAB, Coke, and Playstation to short films and movies like Billy’s Balloon, Talladega Nights, Final Fantasy, and Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure. One submission, Godzilla, amused the crowd with character dialog done by IAR faculty gibing each other. For the first time, students addressed the audience about their projects, answering questions about their creative and technical decisions. Matt Crawford, the creator of the AFP version of Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, remarked, “It took about 30 hours of foley work alone, but the hardest part was doing Pee Wee’s voice. I actually had to pitch shift it to get it close.” This new element of the AFP awards format was extremely informative and exciting. A new award was introduced to the AFP, Judges Choice, which was given to the highest scoring project out of all three formats. Thank you to all students who submitted.

3.25.2008

Outstanding Achievement Awards:

Sound Editing & Sound Design: Uygar Yucebas, Majid Afzali, Thomas Ryan, John Rucker

Original Score: Ninjin Galsanbat

Music Editing: Ninjin Galsanbat

Script Supervision: Shawn Kuiper, Alice Kallenius

SFX: William Villane, Keith Schwendenmann, Chris Pena

Overall Production: Leah Carrero, Matt Crawford

Judges Choice: Majid Afzali, Uygar Yucebas

AWARDS

Short Format Winner: Brian Finucaine, Wes Conroy

Short Format Runner-up: Kaycee Avwomapka

Medium Format Winner: Majid Afzali, Uygar Yucebas

Medium Format Runner-up: Catherine Morey, Anthony Ungaro, Philip Lazar

Long Format Winner: Matt Crawford

Long Format Runner-up: Carlos Altamarino, Manuel Lugo

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07.02.2008

Students in their 4th quarter at IAR take: Post Production-Audio, which teaches them the techniques of creating an audio soundtrack synchronized to video. Subjects include location sound production, SMPTE time code, dialog, audio bed tracks and sound effects. Students are given the chance to enter the popular Audio for Picture (AFP) Awards Festival, where they use the tools they learn in the class, choose a pre-existing video piece and recreate all aspects of the audio for it.

The AFP awards are an exciting and creative experience for students. “It’s a tremendous collection of art,” says Nell Gywnn from Student Services, who leads the AFP. Students chose from their favorite films, television shows, commercials, and cartoons. One project was a movie trailer and rather than using video from the original, the student re-created the trailer by piecing together different scenes within the film and adding unique voice-overs, music, and sound effects. An audience favorite was a spoof of the Matrix movie with an argument debating the pros and cons of digital recording vs. analog recording using improvised humorous dialog of characters during a fight scene. Thanks to all who submitted.

The Summer 2008 AFP Winners are:

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Outstanding Achievement Awards

ADR: Avery McFadden, Andrew Fuccillo, Brian Chirlo, Edward Long

Music Editing: Jason Earl, Chris Sullivan, Mike Weiner

Music Selection: Alexander Velez, Carlos Buitrago, Doug Schaefer, James Spring

Sound Design: Matt MacUmber

SFX: Alexis Puig, Alex Santullo

Original Score: Madli Kent, Jason Russell, Damond Thomas

Overall Post Production: Rivka Einy, Carlos Berthet

Audience Favorite: Alexy Larroy, Jackie Gonzalez

The Summer 2008 AFP Winners are:

1st Place

Mefail Ljumanoski with "Robots"

2nd Place

Rivka Einy and Carlos Berthet with "Team America Redux"

3rd Place

Madli Kent with "Happy Tree Friends"

09.02.2008

For more than two years now, IAR has presented its Audio for Picture (AFP) Awards Festival to showcase student post production projects. AFP is not officially a part of the audio-post production course given in the last quarter, but it has become an important, exciting opportunity for using the tools students learn in the course. Students choose any pre-existing video piece and recreate all aspects of audio. The high level of competitiveness and ambition demonstrated by the student projects distinguished this Fall’s AFP Awards from previous events. Nell Gwynn, creator of the AFP, remarked, “Normally, we have short form projects, but this time virtually all submissions were two minutes or more. The top three prizes were hotly contested, and having missed the top three by only a half a point, the judges recognized Juan Rivera’s project as an audience favorite.” The range of projects included scenes from movies, TV shows and animated films, such as ‘300,’ ‘I Am Legend,’ ‘The Notebook,’ ‘The Chappelle Show,’ ‘Ice Age’ and ‘Shrek.’ Nell made the important point that “The AFP forces students to raise their standards and creativity, and gives them a final project or ‘demo reel’ to showcase their talents if they want to pursue audio-post as a career.”

Outstanding Achievement Awards

Musical Composition: Francis Debbane “Vanilla Sky”

Automated Dialog Replacement: Mike Bludson

“Chapelle Show”

SFX Editing: Nick Cutrone & Matt Collucci “Bad Boys 2”

Original Score: Juan Rivera “300”

Audience Favorite: Juan Rivera “300”

The Fall 2008 AFP Winners are:

1st Place

Kevin Perrin “I Am Legend”

2nd Place

Sean Oates & Daniel Riofrio “Shrek: Muffin Man Scene”

3rd Place

Danny Molano “The Crow”

IAR held its 2008 Winter Audio for Picture (AFP) Awards Festival on Wednesday, December 10th. In their 4th quarter Post production Audio course, students choose any video segment they wish from a movie trailer, TV show, commercial, or cartoon and then delete all audio content. They then recreate every aspect of the audio portion including dialog, sound FX, sound design, and musical composition. IAR students use the recording techniques they learn in IAR’s Post Production course to create impressive projects. The projects are judged by IAR’s faculty and are shown to peers, faculty, and the Administration at the festival. AFP creator Nell Gwynn stated, “The AFP gives students the opportunity to create a demo reel to use if they choose a career in post production.” This season, students submitted projects from videos such as “Max Payne,” “The Clone Wars,” “The Punisher,” “XXX,” and “Man on Fire.” Thank you to every one who submitted!

The Winter 2008 AFP Winners are:

1st Place

Sera Chung: “Spirit: Stallion of Cimarron”

2nd Place

Zandile Peniston & Gustavo Medina: “Fast and Furious 4”

3rd Place

Carlos Chang, Carlos Charles & Antun Zepina: “XXX”

Outstanding Achievement Awards

Best MIX

Shalik Marshall “Max Payne”

Sound FX Editing

Grace Plunkett & Justin Parker “The Punisher”

Sound Design

Alex Sierra & Talia Rodgers “The Clone Wars”

Original Score

Ronald Cherisme “Avatar”

Audience Favorite

Charles Addai-Boadi & Chris Soklaski “IAR I & II”

Audio Dialog Replacement

Alfredo Taveras & Leonardo Perez “Man on Fire”

Music Selection

Mona Letterese “Repo! The Genetic Opera”

Overall Post Production

Sera Chung “Spirit: Stallion of Cimarron”

12.10.2008

On Tuesday, April 7th, IAR hosted its 2009 Spring Audio for Picture (AFP) Awards Festival. In the fourth quarter of IAR’s program, students take a post production course. The course introduces students to the production of an audio soundtrack synchronized to video. Using the tools they learn in the classroom, students complete their own post production projects and can submit them to be judged in the AFP Awards Festival.

Students can choose any video segment they wish from which they delete all audio content. Then using the techniques they have learned at IAR and in the post production course, students recreate every aspect of soundtrack including dialog, sound FX, sound design, and music score. Faculty member Lyell Loyd is a Senior Staff Engineer at WABC-TV and the A1 show mixer (senior audio engineer) for “Live! with Regis and Kelly”. He brings his professional experiences into the classroom as he teaches the post production course. He remarks about this season’s projects, “There was more animation this time and they are impressive pieces. On the first day of class I tell them to start thinking about what they want to work on for their final project.” The diversity in tastes, styles, and projects was represented by selections that included Terminator, the animated film Warriors of the Wind, The Soloist, and Dawn of War. Thank you to every one who submitted!

04.07.2009

The Spring 2009 AFP Winners are:

Best Overall Project Luis Santovena, "War Hammer"

Best Music Editing Brittany Keen, "2046"

Best Automated Dialog Replacement George Flayer, "Sharktale"

Best Sound Editing Javier Flores & Rafael Morales Jr., "Transformers"

Best Original Score J.P. Palmerio & Dayva Segal, "City of Lost Children"

07.14.09

On Tuesday, July 14th, IAR hosted its 2009 Summer Audio for Picture (AFP) Awards Festival. In the fourth quarter of IAR’s program, students take an audio post-production course, one of the school’s most popular subjects and a growing industry filled with lots of job opportunities. They learn to synchronize audio to video. In the course, they then define and produce their own post-production projects from start to finish, and can submit them for recognition at IAR’s AFP Awards Festival.

Students choose any video piece they wish and then they delete all audio content. Using the techniques they have learned at IAR and in the post-production course, students recreate every aspect of audio including dialog, sound FX, sound design, and musical composition. IAR invited Wendell Hanes as one judge for AFP. He has scored over 600 commercials, themes, and promotional spots for television, and has authored the post-production book, “The 30-30 Career: Making 30 Grand in 30 Seconds!” Wendell critiqued every student project and shared his comments and advice with the audience, which included students, family and friends. “Sound design is all about the contrast between highs and lows,” he said. “The sound is intense during explosions and car crashes, but immediately low when switching to dialog. Use volume and reverb. Think about the environment the video is showing and build sounds that match. “Sometimes there will be audio that you do not see on screen. During the fight scene in the movie Gladiator, as the intensity of the fight builds, you have to intensify the sounds of the crowd, tigers, and background music.” This AFP’s projects included Fast and Furious, Wall-E, 300, Gladiator, War, Nine, Drop Dead Fred, Kung Fu Panda and many more.

Thank you to every one who submitted!

The Summer 2009 AFP Winners are:

1st Place Bing Jee Ng – ‘Animatrix’

2nd Place Dolo and Jay Hendershot – ‘Up’

3rd Place Saul Ruiz Rodriguez and Max Rudd – ‘Tron’

Runner Up Manny Diaz – ‘Man On Fire’