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Salford
student wins top award:
A thirty minute documentary
costing just £2000 has won a top Royal Television Society award,
beating off competition from the BBC and Granada.
The prize for "Best
Cable, Satellite or RSL Programme in the Region" was handed over to
proud student director, Paul Barron, by Slade-hero Noddy Holder, at
Manchester's Palace Hotel in December 2001. Other prizes went to Factory
Records founder Tony Wilson and Coronation Street star Georgia Taylor.
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Student Director
Paul Barron |
"It's fantastic for a
student documentary to be nominated at all in the professional awards,
but to receive two nominations - and win one of them - is quite
incredible" said Barron of the prize. He also drew attention to the
support he had from fellow students Ke Chen and Kenneth Campbell, adding
that it served as "a great tribute to the media school at Salford
University".
The film, entitled
"Final Clearance", told the story of the characters working at
a house clearance firm in Chorlton. It took three weeks to shoot and a
further six to edit before the makers were satisfied it was ready for
transmission. It was shown on Manchester's Channel M late last year.
Since winning the award,
both the BBC and Granada have expressed an interest in bringing the programme to a wider
audience.
STATS:
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The documentary was also
nominated for "Best Programme Reflecting Life in the
Region" - an award set up in memory of the Mancunian journalist
Brian Redhead.
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"Final
Clearance" was the audience's favourite at the Exposures
Student Festival in Manchester in 2000.
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Channel M can be
received by 200,000 people in Manchester just by tuning their
television to channel 39.
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It is one of the
smallest television stations in the country, yet 75,000 people
regularly tune in.
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Other programmes
produced by Salford University for Channel M include "Gloves
Off" and "Interference" where guests have included
Sir Paul McCartney, director John Madden, actor Christopher
Eccleston, writer Irvine Welsh, comedians Steve Coogan & Peter
Kaye and MI5 turncoat David Shayler.
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