Viking Fusion, a
student-run multimedia website for Berry College, recently earned finalist
positions in three categories of the College Media Association’s annual
Pinnacle Awards, which will be announced in October at the 2016 National
College Media Convention.
“This was a year of
growth for Viking Fusion,” senior theater major Deanna Cunningham, the
executive director for Viking Fusion, said. “We produced our first bilingual film, an
experimental short film and worked to redefine what news means to our audience.
You can’t grow if you don’t try new things. We tried, and now it is paying
off.”
The site was nominated
in the Broadcast Division for “Four-Year TV Station of the Year,” as well as
for specific video projects. Viking Fusion’s “Welcome to Valhalla” video, which
was a promotional video on Berry’s first football game played in the school’s
Valhalla stadium, is nominated for “Best TV Promo/PSA.”
“It was an ambitious
project from the beginning in that we had two weeks to do it,” senior Luke
Chandler, the video’s producer, said. “The fact that we overcame multiple roadblocks
only makes me prouder of the recognition it has received.”
The website was also
nominated in the Best Viral Video category for “The Studio Awakens,” which
parodied the trailer for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens."
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