The Spring Audio for Picture (AFP) Awards Festival was a great success. The festival showcased audio/video projects from four IAR class sections, the most of any festival. Students were required to take a pre-existing video of their choice and recreate all sound effects, dialog, musical scores, and foley. The projects were limited to three categories based on time length: Short Format, Medium Format, and Long Format. The larger number of applicants yielded a very diverse and creative field of projects such as commercials for SAAB, Coke, and Playstation to short films and movies like Billy’s Balloon, Talladega Nights, Final Fantasy, and Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure. One submission, Godzilla, amused the crowd with character dialog done by IAR faculty gibing each other. For the first time, students addressed the audience about their projects, answering questions about their creative and technical decisions. Matt Crawford, the creator of the AFP version of Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, remarked, “It took about 30 hours of foley work alone, but the hardest part was doing Pee Wee’s voice. I actually had to pitch shift it to get it close.” This new element of the AFP awards format was extremely informative and exciting. A new award was introduced to the AFP, Judges Choice, which was given to the highest scoring project out of all three formats. Thank you to all students who submitted.

The Spring 2008 AFP Winners are:
Short Format Winner: Brian Finucaine, Wes Conroy
Short Format Runner-up: Kaycee Avwomapka
Medium Format Winner: Majid Afzali, Uygar Yucebas
Medium Format Runner-up: Catherine Morey, Anthony Ungaro, Philip Lazar
Long Format Winner: Matt Crawford
Long Format Runner-up: Carlos Altamarino, Manuel Lugo

Outstanding Achievement Awards:
Sound Editing & Sound Design: Uygar Yucebas, Majid Afzali, Thomas Ryan, John Rucker
Original Score: Ninjin Galsanbat
Music Editing: Ninjin Galsanbat
Script Supervision: Shawn Kuiper, Alice Kallenius
SFX: William Villane, Keith Schwendenmann, Chris Pena
Overall Production: Leah Carrero, Matt Crawford
Judges Choice: Majid Afzali, Uygar Yucebas