Liverpool students place second in video competition

The image of a giant hamburger squashing a person into its mouth has given five students of the Liverpool Regional High School entrepreneurship class a second place finish in a student video competition.

Entrepreneurship teacher, Kristopher Snarby had five students take a claymation course last November. “The marketing, the advertising, it ties in really well with that kind of stuff,” he said about Entrepreneurship and claymation. “You get your artwork, you get your slogan, which was be smart, eat smart or be eaten.”

Students Taylor Connolly, Jahaida Jimenez, Amy Lloyd, Jacob Roberts and Kyle Stewart created the 180 frame claymation.

The video shows a rather large hamburger eat a person as they walk by, with the slogan gradually appearing in the video.

The video has a MacDonald’s theme.

Snarby said the video contest was part of Knowledge Fest in Bridgewater.

At the end of April videos aired at Empire Theatres in Bridgewater. “It was packed,” with parents and grandparents, said Snarby.

The one competition rule was the video had to relate back to the curriculum some how, he explained.

LRHS tied their video into advertising and healthy living.

Everyone in the theatre voted for his or her favorite.

Just three from the LRHS group attended the competition.

Snarby was impressed they placed as well as they did considering the number of parents and grandparents who could of voted for their own children’s video. “To finish second with only three people kind of guaranteed to vote for us, I was pretty happy about that,” he added.

Elementary, Junior High and High School students entered the competition including Greenfield Elementary School.

Teacher Linda MacPhee said the students “created a video about their community,” from an internal and outside point of view.

Greenfield Elementary placed third.

The prize for second place was a multimedia computer, $500 and a trophy.

Snarby said they split the money in half, with $50 going to each student and the other $250 divided between the scholarship auction and to prom.