FSU Holds 3rd Annual Frosty Awards

On Saturday afternoon, the Department of Communication and the Creative Communications Club held its third annual Frosty Awards, where Mass Communication and Communication Studies students showcase their creative work in video. The award show started in 2015, continued in 2016, and then went on hiatus in 2017.

“It feels good to have an event we care so much about be back and have students involved in it,” said Mass Communication professor Annie Danzi, who was part of the event committee. “It changed a bit from what it was a few years ago, but this is an event that is important to me and to my students, so we’re happy with it.”

Danzi also noted that this year’s Frosty Awards would “showcase a good mix of student work that they did for classes and some work they did on their own time,” such as documentaries, music videos, studio shows, and promotional videos. That appeared to be the case for this year’s awards show.

Lauren Calton, an FSU student who also worked on the event as part of the committee, stated that this what she would like to do for a job. “I want to do event planning, so this is a great way to get experience with it,” she said. “It [The Frosty Awards] is a great way for students to showcase their work, so throughout the year they’re working on things in their classes, like 487 Advanced Production. This is a way to show the public the things that they produce.”

Among the videos shown were “Students’ Opinions,” a short video about what students think of the Mass Communication and Communication Studies programs, “Aspen Extreme,” a satire review of the 1993 skiing film Aspen Extreme, “Halloween Spooktacular,” a studio show about Halloween featuring various FSU students as well as Danzi, and “Keyblade,” a rap music video that features a beat that samples music from the video game Kingdom Hearts.

Featured artists included Sidney Beeman, Lisa Bodley-Bjorklund, Kameron Clem, James Cousler, Joshua Daniels, Delron Glave, Dasia Jones, Jesse Puffenberger, Elijah and Isaiah Sutton, Menu’Ette Silver, Marlon Pointer, and the MCOM 387 class.