Graduate receives BBC Innovation Award
26 February 2010
Liverpool Screen School celebrated student success for a second year running at the recent BBC ‘Connect and Create’ conference as Dan Bate, a graduate in iMedia from LJMU, won the BBC Partnership Award in Innovation.
A BBC initiative which links students with staff at the BBC in Manchester and with those departments in scope to move from London to MediaCity, Connect and Create .jpg)
aims to identify the best talent from the region and to put those students in the best possible position in time for the BBC’s recruitment push later this year.
The Innovation Award recognises work which demonstrates the interdependence of content and technology to reach out to new audiences and communities.
Receiving the award, Dan commented: "I'm thrilled to win this, as the competition was so strong. It's really encouraging to know that the skills and knowledge I gained from my time at LJMU are recognised and valued by the industry."
Dan’s winning entry provides the user with a virtual writing desk to explore artefacts from the Second World War, to uncover a personal story, providing a snapshot of life on one day in August 1940. The piece sets one individual’s experience against the backdrop of world history and invites the user to learn through exploration. Using traditional media sequences of sound, animation and text, the work delivers a story in an interactive and non-linear way, engaging the user and delivering history through narrative, encapsulating perfectly the BBC North's vision, ‘To innovate, inspire, surprise: always looking beyond tomorrow.’
