Nathan Maulorico of Unknown Films and Derek McGuire won the 2008 Skills USA Missouri competition in April, 2008. The contest consisted of creating a video from scratch with no preparation about what the video is required to be about. Each team has only three timed hours to create the video. Within that three hours story boarding, scripting, creative thinking, shooting, editing, and exporting must all be completed. This years requirements were to create a news broadcast style video, up to 90 seconds long, that contained no music or sound effects.
“This particular video contest was very hard, not only due to the extremely short amount of time alloted, but the subject matter as well with no musical audio to rely on to “smooth” out the piece. I really enjoy the challenge though, as we have many clients who want quality as well as speed, and these types of contests help improve those skills” -Nathan Maulorico
With the win of the Missouri gold medal, Nathan and Derek will now be competing for the National title in June