Huge congratulations to Ben Killackey for winning the Young Talent of the Year (Live Production) at the Broadcast Tech Awards 🏆✨ Ben is one of the Solent University students who orchestrated a successful live stream of Team Solent Kestrels Basketball club 🏀. Using #Cuez, that is 😉 We’re thrilled to have collaborated with Ben for an exclusive interview. Check it out here https://lnkd.in/eTPtbVYx and read the full article here https://lnkd.in/dmPiF-5P Talents like these are the future of #broadcasting industry! Here’s to your future success, Ben — we know this is just the beginning 💪🏼
Still totally speechless, and thats just from being shortlisted!! Feels really special to have been named Young Talent of the Year (Live Production) at the Broadcast Tech Awards last night. A huge congratulations to all the nominees Tia Shenton, Sean Jones, Chrissy Agius, Lara M. & Taz Addison, you guys are all so awesome keep smashing everything!! Over the past 2 years I was lucky enough to lead Sonar Events, Solent University’s student-ran production company, where we produced content, live broadcasts and hosted live events both within the university and for clients in the local community, with our coverage of Team Solent Kestrels Basketball club being our flagship production. These were purely passion projects for all of us, with every job and every game we wanted to push ourselves more and more and I’ll never be able to fully express my gratitude to all my peers who were all so motivated to push everything as far as possible. Every single person who was involved in Sonar built such a fantastic community within the university which I feel so lucky to have been a part of! I was just doing what I loved and to be able to share that with others was really special. Through SonarEvents I loved sharing what I learnt with others and helping people to push themselves out of their comfort zone - I’m sure there are a few people on here who wanted a few words with me after attending one of my afternoon EVS crash courses to then find out they’d be operating and building closers less than 24 hours later for one of our basketball broadcasts!! (And then going on to smash it!) But I’m proud as a team we never let anyone sink and were all so supportive of each other. My love for sharing my passion extends out to being involved with the Rise Academy, a super deserving winner of the Industry Skills Initiative award last night, I would’ve been living my absolute dream if one of those workshops came around to my school when I was younger, and seeing so many people loving what we do is the most rewarding experience. I really must thank every single person at Solent University, both staff and peers who for some reason went along with lots of our crazy ideas as we pushed for more and more, everyone there is so so talented and it makes me so happy to see everyone doing so well! I’m so lucky to have had lots of industry support over my time at Solent too, and for that I am so grateful - and to my mentors a huge thank you for helping both myself and Sonar navigate this industry, it’s a huge goal of mine now to pass that back on as I continue to grow having started my career at Sky! So many people have helped me achieve this award and I really don’t think it should be individual, I sound like a broken record but I really am so grateful!
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