Thousands of creative industries practitioners in the South West are invited to put their work forward in a bid to win one of the prestigious awards.
Some new award categories have been added to reflect the ever-increasing range of creative media skills and there are now 18 categories for the most innovative:
Television project
DVD or CD
Community web use
Corporate web use
Mobile communications project
Multi-platform project
Independent film or video
Screen graphics
Print graphics
Photographic project
Installation or exhibition project
Audio or music project for screen
Live events
Virtual world or gaming project
Branding
Collaboration between business and young people
New Talent / New Business
Outstanding contribution to innovation
Karen Stockdale of the Media Innovation Awards said, “The standard of entries for the last three years has been outstanding. The level of creative talent and innovation in the industry keeps getting better and better and I am really looking forward to this year’s entries.”
Entries for the competition are invited from the 8000 members of the five media cluster groups in the region, The Gloucestershire Media Group, Plymouth Media-Partnership, Cornwall Media Focus, Swindon Media Group, Creative Bath, Wessex Media Group and Bristol Media. It is also open to the 2000 members of the South West Design Forum groups - Designed in Devon, West of England Design Forum, Cornwall Design Forum, Somerset Design Enterprise Network, Gloucestershire Design Network and Dorset Design Forum.
The event culminates in a glittering gala awards dinner in Plymouth on 18th March 2010 to celebrate the cream of the creative media industry and it has already attracted a number of sponsors. The event itself is being sponsored by South West Screen, the South West of England Regional Development Agency, Pyramid Presentations, Plymouth College of Art, and PR Dogs; while the individual categories are being sponsored by City College, Plymouth City Council, Pyramid Presentations, Tell, the Formation Zone at the University of Plymouth, Innovation for the Creative & Cultural Industries, Out of Hand, Silverstream, Business Link and Tamar Science Park.