More Honors Scholarship split between three teams

The More Honors (MH) Academy announced this year’s MH Scholarship winners during their 13th annual awards ceremony in the Skaptopara Sports Hall on April 16 in front of more than a thousand students and faculty members. Three winning teams were awarded a total of 3,000 leva.

This year the task was to prepare a short video clip on any topic, showing creativity and clear understanding of the values of More Honors.

The MH Academy announced the contest a month before the ceremony through an allstud e-mail. The money given to the winners was raised by MH during the Alumni Challenge of 2009 by putting up for auction memorabilia from the history of the MH Academy.

"More Honors is all about showing reality in a mocking, funny way, and exemplifying the creativity of the bright minds [at] AUBG," Alexander Nestorov, an MH Academy member, said.

Thirty-one teams applied for the scholarship.

Sophomore Angel Ivanov was one of the winners. His video, called Flashback, depicts the joyous moments of a couple in their young years, portrayed through a collage in a photo album.

"I tried to come up with the inspiration listening to the kind of music that was on the video. I came up with some of the images, and then started developing them," Ivanov said. "There were some spectacular videos; I was surprised with the outcome," he added.

The second team consisted of juniors Alexander Pirlya, defacto’s visual editor, and Mirian Jugheli with the video AUBG Timelapse made from over 9,000 still pictures. It presents the AUBG community’s life from dusk till dawn, from different perspectives, using a time-lapse technique.

"Some of the videos were very artistic, some of them came up with nice ideas but needed more work on them, some were well edited, some weren’t," Pirlya said. "This year’s contest is much better than the previous one, it was more competitive and it promoted creativity among students," he added.

The third winning team consisted of sophomores Evgenia Rud and Alexei Dubrovin. Their winning video was titled Her list. The story is about a girl who keeps a list and descriptions of her boyfriends, who seem to always end up dead.

"There were some very nice and beautiful videos," Rud said. "It‘s much better, it fits more into MH style. MH itself is a video competition as AUBG is one big movie," she added