« Back to NewsNIA/NASA VIDEOGRAPHERS WIN TOP NASA HONORS
April 13, 2011HAMPTON, Va. – Mike Bibbo and Tom Shortridge, videographers of the half-hour TV show "NASA 360”, have been named among NASA's best, according to the agency's Videographer of the Year 2010 awards.
Bibbo and Shortridge, placed second in the production category for the segment, "NASA 360: Composite Materials/Edison2 Very Light Car." The segment tells the story of how new stronger, lightweight materials are used to make spacecraft and other vehicles, including cars, more efficient.
The NASA 360 series is based at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., and is produced for NASA by the National Institute of Aerospace, (NIA) also in Hampton. The program airs on NASA TV, select airlines and 450 public broadcasting, cable and commercial stations across the country and is part of the NASA eClips project that provides free NASA educational video content for the Internet. More than five million online viewers have downloaded NASA 360 at http://www.nasa.gov/nasa360.
Viewers can also subscribe to the video podcast through iTunes and episodes can also be seen online at NASA's Web site, on Hulu, YouTube, MySpace and Facebook.
A panel of "motion media professionals" from NASA and national organizations judged videos for the Videographer of the Year awards. They rated the three-minute entries on professional excellence, technical quality, originality, creativity within restrictions of the project, and applicability to NASA and its mission.
Other NASA Videographer of the Year 2010 winners include NASA Langley’s Rob Lorkiewicz, a contractor with Crewestone Technologies Inc., who placed third in the production category with a segment titled “"Virginia Tech Lunabotics 2010" and videographers at NASA's Kennedy and Johnson Space and Marshall and Goddard Space Flight Centers.
Awardees receive a trophy and/or a certificate. Winners were announced April 12 during NASA’s digital TV working group meeting held during the National Association of Broadcasters 2011 conference in Las Vegas.
To see the award-winning videos, please go to:
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