The awards cover all forms of production in Scotland and aim to recognise and celebrate excellence and innovation across a range of genres and crafts.
2017 sees a number of changes to the judging criteria, including the introduction of a Young Journalist of the Year Award.
The Royal Television Society Scotland’s annual Student Television Awards were held at BBC Pacific Quay, Glasgow on Wednesday 27th January.
The Factual Category Award went ‘Dipper from the Water of Leith’ which was made by students from the University of Edinburgh. This programme won three awards overall.
RTS Scotland launched its annual awards at the end of November, announcing new categories for directing, on-screen personality and history.
“The real strength of the awards is that they are very inclusive – they’re not just for people that work on multi-million pound productions, they are for everyone involved in the audio visual world in Scotland,” said STV Director of Channels and RTS Scotland awards committee chair Bobby Hain.
Claire Enders offered a robust defence of public service broadcasting in delivering the RTS Scotland Campbell Swinton Lecture to a sold-out lecture room at BBC Scotland in November.
The founder and owner of media researcher firm Enders Analysis backed the Scottish Government’s media policy. “Here, the administration believes that public service broadcasting is a fundamental good for all and believes in the core market interventions – the BBC, Channel 4 – that have been developed over almost a century,” she said.
Pro Tools demonstration
Will be conducted by an Avid specialist revolving around Pro Tools version 12 within a Post Production environment. Avid’s flagship control console, the Pro Tools | S6, will also be on show.
Post Production - audio dissection of a scene
Paul Wilson will open of his dubbed scenes for discussion. This will involve the audio techniques employed to enhance a selected scene of Paul’s choice.
Loudness Specifications for Television
The discussion took place at STV’s studios in Glasgow and was chaired by Angus Simpson, who will produce the The Fountainbridge Show on the new channel in Edinburgh. STV was awarded city television licences in January 2013 to operate city television channels in Scotland’s two largest cities.
When Tony Hall needed someone to investigate Jeremy Clarkson's attack on his producer, he looked north and summoned Ken MacQuarrie, the calm and reserved Director of BBC Scotland.
As an experienced member of the Editorial Standards Committee, MacQuarrie was an obvious choice. His terse report sealed Clarkson's exit. What the Top Gear presenter made of the enigmatic Scot, his polar opposite, remains the stuff of speculation.
