06 l May 2014 news EUROPE Pro Sound Awards – Lobbying a-gogo!
WE’RE OFF to a fl ying start for this year’s Pro Sound Awards! Sony Europe has been
confi rmed as the fi rst major sponsor for the second outing of the Awards, to be held at the Ministry of Sound on 25 September 2014.
“Sony are delighted to return for a second year to sponsor the Pro Sound Awards Broadcast Audio category, highlighting the importance of professional audio solutions within the entertainment and news gathering industry,” said James Leach, marketing manager, professional audio, Sony Europe. “We’re very pleased that James has helped kick off this year’s plans with the
heavyweight support of Sony,” said PSNEurope’s Dave Robinson. “We hope to welcome more sponsors over the coming months, to make the 2014 edition of the Awards even better than last year!” The lobbying period for the Awards began last month and immediately, the new Best Theatre Sound category proved to be extremely popular, with a healthy number of suggestions as to who should be a winner already logged. Pitches for the Best Studio and Marketing Campaign have also been quickly out of the blocks. But, we need more! Yes, dear reader, we want to hear from you too!
The lobbying period continues until the end of this month, 31 May, so drop us a line with your suggestions. See the boxout (right) for what the categories are, and who is eligible. In a nutshell: write (up to) 300 words on who/what deserves wider recognition, and email it to prosoundawards@
intentmedia.co.uk. Lobbying is free, anyone can do it, and making your thoughts known is easy.
Early bird tickets are currently available for the 25 September event for just £79+VAT, and include The Pre-Roll, our early evening session of lively panel- style discussion, new for this year!
For more information contact
sara.mather@
intentmedia.co.uk www.prosoundawards.com
Sony’s James Leach launches the PCM-D100 portable high res audio recorder at the BVE show earlier this year
HOW IT WORKS
Read through the categories and see which one(s) you feel you want to make a pitch for: either nominating yourself, your team, an associate, or just a project or person you have been impressed with and want to give wider recognition. Provide as much factual information as possible – data and evidence of notable successes are invaluable. Up to three hotlinks to relevant material online can also be provided. And by all means ask your colleagues or industry friends to make their feelings known. But please – no more than 300 words per entry. Send your pitch for each award under consideration to prosoundawards@
intentmedia.co.uk. Based on the email
nominations, the Pro Sound Awards team will create a list of fi nalists for each category. This
THE AWARDS CATEGORIES 2014 All suggestions and applications should apply to achievements/events between 15 JUNE 2013 and the close of the lobbying period.
LIVE/TOURING SOUND Engineer of the Year Eligible: Any engineer working in a touring, theatre or one-off event environment at FOH or monitor position, who has demonstrated exemplary contribution or performance
Best Tour Sound Production Eligible: Any PA/rental house who shows outstanding work in a live production (theatre, touring, one-off event, festival)
Best Theatre Sound Eligible: Any sound design individual or team, system supplier or operator(s) who has/have demonstrated an exemplary contribution to a theatrical piece, be it musical theatre or other
STUDIO Engineer of the Year Eligible: Any engineer
(mastering, recording, post-production) who has contributed signifi cant input or innovation to a commercially available project
Best Recording Production Eligible: Any commercially available audio recording (single/album/soundtrack) worthy of merit
Best Studio Eligible: Any recording/ tracking facility which has shown exemplary work
Best Sound
(Post-Production) Eligible:Any sound design team or post-production outfi t who has contributed signifi cantly in the ‘sound-to- picture’ stages of the creation of a commercial project
INSTALLED SOUND Best Permanent Installation Project Eligible: Any service
provider/equipment supplier/distributor/ installation team
demonstrating outstanding support on or contribution to a permanent installation project
Best Temporary Installation Project Eligible: As above for permanent, but for a temporary installation project
Team of the Year Eligible: Any specifi er/ consultancy/installation company showing
exemplary work with audio on a commercial project or projects
BROADCAST AUDIO Best Facility Eligible: Any broadcast studio/post-production house demonstrating outstanding contribution to or on a broadcast project
Broadcast Event of the Year Eligible: Any broadcast event, where sound makes a signifi cant impact/ contribution, worthy of wider recognition
Team of the Year Eligible: Any broadcaster/ service supplier showing exemplary contribution to the creation/delivery of audio content for a commercial broadcast project/event
MARKETING INITIATIVE Eligible: Any team (from the manufacturing/ distribution/ reseller/ consultancy sectors) showing originality/innovation – within a marketing campaign for professional audio
RISING STAR Eligible: Any newcomer, from any sector, worthy of wider recognition
process involves looking at the performance of those nominated companies over the past year, plus the information provided by the lobbying emails. We DON’T base fi nalist positions on the number of emails we receive about a particular company. A shortlist of fi nalists for each category will be presented to a large panel of judges from across the spectrum of the pro-audio industry. These judges ultimately will choose the winners of each Pro Sound Award (with the exception of the Grand Prix and Lifetime Achievement prizes – these will be chosen by the Awards team – while the Audio Pro International team will choose the Rising Star winner). And then we wait for the big night, when all is revealed: 25 September at the Ministry of Sound.
PROSOUNDAWARDS D
Thursday, 25th September 2014 Ministry Of Sound, London
www.psneurope.com
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