{"id":1095,"date":"2018-06-20T08:52:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T12:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2018-06-20T09:59:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T13:59:54","slug":"vsu-students-win-at-the-american-youth-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/2018\/06\/20\/vsu-students-win-at-the-american-youth-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"VSU Students Win At The American Youth Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1096\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1096\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/06\/AYFF-2018-Winner-Nat-Ragland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1096\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/06\/AYFF-2018-Winner-Nat-Ragland-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/06\/AYFF-2018-Winner-Nat-Ragland-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/06\/AYFF-2018-Winner-Nat-Ragland-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/06\/AYFF-2018-Winner-Nat-Ragland-644x1145.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured \u2013 Nathan Ragland with his award for Best Photography for his mini-documentary CAIDEN\u2019S PHOTO\u2019S<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">This past weekend, four Valdosta State University students won big at the American Youth Film Festival (AYFF) held in Atlanta, Ga.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Competing among other college students from across the nation, the Valdosta State students submitted work that they produced independently and within their Mass Media courses. Nathan Ragland, graduate of Oglethorpe County High School, won for Best Photography for his mini-documentary, <em>Caiden\u2019s Photo\u2019s<\/em>. Ryan Braynt, graduate of Hart County High School, won for best Movie Poster for his film <em>Shut In<\/em>, which also screened at the South Georgia Film Festival. Seniors Matt Snow, of Lanier County High School, and Taren Pinesett won Best Commercial for their spot for Hollywood Needle Tattoo, which was produced in Prof. Dennis Conway\u2019s Production II class.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Valdosta State students received discounted submissions to the AYFF in conjunction with the festival\u2019s partnership with the South Georgia Film Festival. The AYFF seeks to create a positive platform for young people to discover and explore their talents as filmmakers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Article submitted by: Jason Brown, Associate Professor Mass Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This past weekend, four Valdosta State University students won big at the American Youth Film Festival (AYFF) held in Atlanta, Ga. \u00a0 Competing among other college students from across the nation, the Valdosta State students submitted work that they produced independently and within their Mass Media courses. Nathan Ragland, graduate of Oglethorpe County High&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-officeofthedean"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/coa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}