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In the time it takes you to read this sentence, Dogubomb’s award-winning video will have started and ended.

Dogubomb Productions, created by three Pellissippi State students, recently earned top honors in a video competition sponsored by the Cadillac Division of General Motors Corp. More than 3,000 entries, each lasting no longer than five seconds, were judged, and Dogubomb’s effort was considered one of the four best in its category.

The team consists of Paul Cain, John Kramer and Christopher Floersh, all Video Production Technology students. Although they have produced short videos before, this is the first one that has earned an award.

The “Cadillac Under 5” video competition coincided with a promotional effort boosting the automaker’s models that can accelerate from 0-60 mph in five seconds or less. The competition attracted entries from students, amateurs and professionals, and 20 were chosen as winners.

Cain says the team’s video shows a group of detectives standing around, sipping coffee, and then it shows what they are looking at, a roadway littered with the chalk outlines of bodies on the pavement. It was entered in the mystery category.

Cain, 20, served as director of photography. Kramer, 21, was director, and Floersh, 20, was lighting director on the video. They went to Los Angeles in March to receive the award.

The students have entered original productions in the Secret City Film Festival in Oak Ridge. They plan to participate in the Knoxville Nine-Hour Film Festival in June at Pellissippi State.

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