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Caribbean Life, N 18 OVEMBER 20-26, 2020
Michael Eldon Prass displays his plaque and prize. Prass Family
Michael E. Prass wins GT
50th Video Competition
By Tangerine Clarke
Seventeen-year high school student,
Michael Eldon Prass, who aspires to
become a medical professional, as well as a
successful gamer in multiple video games,
said he became excited, when named winner
of GT 50th Video Competition (GT50),
in celebration of Guyana’s 50th Republic
Anniversary defeating scores of competitors
in the February 2020 contest.
“I hadn’t really won anything on that
scale before so the feeling was pretty
overwhelming at first,” said the young
man who migrated to the United States
just two years ago, and is excelling in his
course of study.
Just recently presented with his prizes,
due to the on going coronavirus pandemic,
Prass will enjoy a round-trip ticket for two
to his homeland. He also won a Microsoft
SurfacePro Laptop 120GB 13-inch display
Laptop, compliments of Simplicity IT, and
a plaque, from non-profit, Guyanese In
The Diaspora, (GID) in conjunction with
the Guyana Consulate New York, and
former Consul General, Barbara Atherly.
The young man, who lives in Rochester,
New York with his family, credits his
mother, Pauline, for inspiring him to enter
the contest that invited students between
the ages of 14 to 18 years old to enter the
competition, that asked “What can Guyana
at 50 do, to catapult its advancement
on the world stage?”
Wise beyond his years, Prass, a former
student of the New Guyana School, and
prestigious Queens College High, (QC),
said he first brainstormed ideas on “what
I’d want to make a video on.”
“I went into the challenge thinking
that I would do something different from
the other contestants, an area that isn’t
that well explored in Guyana,” he added.
“When people talk about careers in
Guyana and what they would like to pursue,
you normally hear stuff like medicine
or being a lawyer — which is fine, but
there are not too many people looking
for careers in the arts, despite the vast
amount of potential for it,” expressed
Prass.
Speaking like a true professional, Prass,
at first was not too confident of winning,
but he wanted to ‘pitch my idea out there
anyway.” His video, “We Are Art and the
Development of Guyana’s Future” won the
Gold Medal prize.
He further explained that the video
making process was the hardest part,
but he ultimately birthed the idea that
followed up with a script. “It was simple,
except for shooting of the scenes, the editing
and gathering of the footage to compliment
the audio, that was challenging.”
“I had to scour the Internet for various
artists, musicians, performers. Luckily,
since my sister followed a lot of Guyanese
artists, and my brother Taylor North is a
YouTube rapper, the process was much
easier,” he said.
Before entering the Video Challenge,
the young man was doing what most students
like him do, completing homework
assignments, or playing Super Smash
Brothers on Nintendo Switch, video
games.
According to him, he didn’t do any
research before entering the competition.
“I’ve made a few videos that utilized
somewhat standard editing, and the video
shooting process wasn’t too hard either.
I had the idea of making “memes” to
practice video editing so it wouldn’t be
too hard to implement transitions,” he
shared.
The talented youth is confident that
his idea was unique. “Not many people
really focus on entertainment or the arts
in Guyana. I’m also fairly certain that I’m
one of the few people in my grade that
was interested in playing video games at
a high level, which was my initial idea but
eventually I settled for entertainment and
the arts in general,” he said.
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