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.”

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”

Outstanding Achievement Awards

Musical Composition
Francis Debbane

Automated Dialog Replacement
Mike Bludson

SFX Editing
Nick Cutrone, Matt Collucci

Original Score
Juan Rivera

Audience Favorite
Juan Rivera