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launched on SEA Superhomes鈥� Youtube channel and awarded second prize at Durham Energy Futures Film Festival.

果冻影院 Energy Institute and Loughborough University students Mike Fell, Louis Fifield, Faye Wade and Kate Simpson have been inundated with prizes including a novelty clapper board trophy, Amazon book vouchers and prize money for their short production.

The team created the film in just six hours during the LoLo Summer Event in July. The initial challenge, set by course tutors who liaised with SEA Superhomes was to produce a video to explain 鈥�what is a U-Value?鈥�. The crew were rewarded for their efforts when stakeholders from AECOM, ARUP, BRE, E.ON, EDF, CIBSE, Crest Nicholson and Willmott Dixon awarded them first prize. The competition was fierce but the team overcame the odds with their attempt to amusingly engage audiences.

鈥淭he winning team certainly know the way to a Marketing Manager鈥檚 heart. The video is technically excellent - beautifully constructed, scripted and conceived鈥� said Gordon Glass,

The thanks really have to go to Alan and Sharon - the iconic Lego characters who played the lead roles, confirming that the essential ingredient for any winning film is still just a little romance.

Credit should also go to Pink & White wafer biscuits and good old fashioned marshmallows for their performance as cavity walls and U-value warriors. The carefully selected song 鈥極ur House by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young鈥� was beautifully orchestrated to the U-Value improvements by Mike Fell who also plotted the storyline.

The Durham Energy Futures Film Festival competition was launched just days before the film production and team members had their sights set on movie recycling. Fellow CDT network PhD students from the Durham Centre for Doctoral Training held the festival at Tyneside Cinema on 27th September 2012. They successfully encouraged the creation of thought-provoking energy related films for 鈥榓 light-hearted evening鈥�.

鈥淚t is great!鈥� said PHD student聽 Samantha Clarke of Durham CDT. 鈥淲e love the romance, the stop motion sweets and the message about insulation, of course!鈥�

The first prize was awarded to York CDT for their fantastic film: "Why Build a Sun on Earth?鈥�. James Courtney received the best photograph prize for his 鈥淩otating Disc Electrode Vortex". All entries can be viewed here:

Article written by Kate Simpson