{"id":4867,"date":"2011-11-29T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/long-beach-state-student-awarded-50-000-for-music-video\/"},"modified":"2011-11-29T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T10:37:00","slug":"long-beach-state-student-awarded-50-000-for-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/long-beach-state-student-awarded-50-000-for-music-video","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State Student Awarded $50,000 for Music Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"659\" height=\"335\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AE5JYjoO2NQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>  <em>The OnVidi.com Student Film Contest asked for students to submit an original, three-minute or less film, video or digital production that fell into one of five categories\u2014comedy, action, drama\/romance, music video or documentary.&nbsp; First-place winners from each category would be awarded $10,000, and one entry would be selected as the best overall submission, winning a grand prize of $50,000. <\/em> <\/p>\n<p> <strong>7:20am | <\/strong>With all that went wrong during the shoot, Cal State Long Beach (CSULB) student Leah McKissock, 22, has been awarded the grand prize of $50,000 in the OnVidi.com Student Film Contest for her 2-minute, 22-second music video entry featuring Israeli artist Mika Ben-Yami as the best overall submission in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The video is conceptualized through one-shot, meaning the video was filmed in one take with no edits &#8212; primarily because the song is unusually short. McKissock noted that the words \u201cevery morning\u201d are sung repeatedly throughout the chorus, and this made her imagine the artist, Mika Ben-Yami, getting out of bed at the start of her day\u2014the opening scene of the video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter that I became obsessed with a visual idea of her waking up in a bed in the middle of a beach,&nbsp; probably because I love when in surrealism a person or object is completely displaced,\u201d McKissock pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>The actual production of the video, however, presented some real challenges. First, McKissock said, Ben-Yami insisted the video be done in the time frame of one month, which she added is the shortest amount of time in which she has ever made a video.&nbsp; This gave the team little time to prepare.<\/p>\n<p>After days of high winds and usual weather caused her to lose some crewmembers, most of the crew was able to come back &#8212; most. McKissock lost her steadicam operator, a crucial crew member since the entire video was supposed to be one single shot on a steadicam.&nbsp; She found a replacement steadicam operator, but in the end, he wasn\u2019t up to the task, so they ended up letting him go.&nbsp; Finally, as the production was running out of daylight, the cinematographer stepped in and shot the entire video handheld.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it ironic that the song is titled, &#8220;Nothing is Wrong&#8221;? <\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\"  alt=\"\" style=\"margin: 1px; border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/m_image1322557402-30849.jpg\"><br \/><em>22-year-old senior film and electronic arts student Leah McKissock, from Long Beach State.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all that went wrong during the shoot, Cal State Long Beach (CSULB) student Leah McKissock, 22, has been awarded the grand prize of $50,000 in the OnVidi.com Student Film Contest for her 2-minute, 22-second music video entry featuring Israeli artist Mika Ben-Yami as the best overall submission in the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":69864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hi-lo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4867"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=4867"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}