The owner of the Grand Prix of the all-Russian competition of student videos organized by the "Student travel League" in the category "Student tourism in your region" was a film crew of students of the Volga region Academy for the 3-minute video "Kazan – city of opportunities"presented to the jury.
In the open Internet voting, the video took the second place, gaining 697 votes (1100 from the winner of the "audience choice" prize - "Kursk in the city sculpture"). But the jury thought that the work of students of the Kazan Academy-the best of the competition. Moreover, in this category "Kazan – city of opportunities" won against the main competitor by a large margin (584 against 373).
The absolute winner of the competition was determined by adding the results of the voting of the audience and the jury, so the victory went to the video about Kursk. But the jury found it necessary to highlight the video about Kazan.
The official press release on the website of the" Student travel League "says: "the Jury decided to additionally highlight the video" Kazan-city of opportunities " of the Volga state Academy of physical culture, sports and tourism (Kazan). The video took the second place in the nomination "Student tourism in my region", but according to the voting results the jury scored the maximum number of points — 584!»
Adela Saitova (editor and editor) and her co – author Evgenia Osipova, before taking up the creation of "Kazan-the city of opportunities", already had the experience of video shooting in the framework of work in the student media center of the Academy. Initially, the competition proposal was to shoot a short video based on the student tourist route in Kazan, formed by the representatives of the travel League, who had previously visited our city. But having got acquainted with this route, Adela and Evgenia decided to make their own. He became, in short, ran only in Kazan, within its surroundings, while maintaining their "student format". First of all, in terms of prices: took into account the modest financial capabilities of the average student-tourist.
- At first, we focused on the famous TV project "heads and tails", "budget" part of it, but in the end it turned out something different,-says Adela.
It is interesting that the video consists entirely of the original footage shot by the student film crew (Adele and Zhenya helped in the filming of the Academy student Kasim Safin), as under the terms of the competition it was forbidden to use footage from the Internet:
- We did not even include in the video a photo of the actor Alexei Vorobyov, who starred in the film "Treasures OK" about the search for treasures of lake Kaban, - says Adela.
But the presentation text, prepared by the film crew at the request of the organizers of the competition, begins with the words of the famous historical character, Empress Catherine II: "This city is undoubtedly the first in Russia after Moscow..."everything shows that Kazan is the capital of the big Kingdom!»
Further, the young authors, of course, turn to modern Kazan: "... We were really happy when we learned that the competition dedicated to student tourism starts, because some of the participants of our creative group are trained in this direction. There was a great opportunity to realize their ideas.  But we were even more pleased with the idea that we are doing a good deed: with the help of a small three-minute video we will be able to attract as many students-tourists to our beautiful city Kazan as possible. When creating the video we faced some difficulties, there were many ideas, I wanted to show everything! But the time limit was strict, so the plot included those places that we would recommend to visiting friends, tourists ... Initially we planned to complete the shooting for two days, but the surprises of nature (snow, rain) stretched this process for almost two weeks. Despite this, we have always been on the positive side, because wherever we went with the camera, we were always greeted warmly and with a smile, with a really Tatar hospitality. During the filming we – Adele, Eugene and Kasym-received a huge amount of impressions and experience. We did not just shoot the story about Kazan, we spent time together, had fun, learned a lot, because we are also visitors, not indigenous residents of Kazan. We Express our gratitude to everyone who organized this competition, who allowed us to participate in it! Be sure to come to visit us, in the beautiful city of Kazan! Because here you will find your inspiration. Here you will find yourself…»
Well, the owners of the Grand Prix do not intend to stop there. They are going to show everyone the full 10-minute version of "Kazan-city of opportunities". And adèle Evgenia already thinking about a career video-blogger. Of course, the blog will be about tourism.