The Video Graphics Association, better known as the VGA, is a
student body within the institute which started as a small group
of students interested in making videos. The body having initially
made two videos for welcoming the freshers during the counseling
process of the year 2008 has expanded to constitute a total of a
hundred students in the academic year 2008-09. The VGA now undertakes
activities like making of documentaries on social awareness, academics
and for student entertainment. The VGA also makes short films aimed
at not only sending messages out to the public but also for competing
in national level film festivals.
Till date the VGA has made two videos for the counseling days which
tell the story of the Institute’s development from absolutely
nothing to a building equipped with the best quality academic facilities-
the way the founding batch has seen it grow.
The VGA has also made a music video dedicated to the pioneering
batch of the Institute which had been to Kuchchh, Gujarat on a rural
internship during the summer of 2008. The video is living proof
that this one batch when put together will always find a reason
to smile even when they are put in the harshest rural conditions.
No wonder the title of the video says ‘Friends Forever’.
The VGA participated in an event organized by the Institute of
Petroleum Management, Gandhinagar in association with National Institute
of Fashion Technology (NIFT in Gandhinagar) and Dhirubhai Ambani
Institute of Information Technology (DA-IICT in Gandhinagar). The
event was conceptualized on ‘Young India’ and was aimed
at awakening the youth towards the nation. Many Institutes in Gandhinagar
and Ahmedabad had also participated in the event. The VGA had made
a video to make a sleeping youth to ‘Wake Up’ to India.
The VGA is now moving over to making another video for social awareness,
two short films, academic documentaries and also plans to work in
collaboration with more institutes to do whatever good it can to
society.
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