A student animator just out of university will have her debut film shown on television after it won a Royal Television Society Award.

Emma Lazenby, 22, was presented with her Yorkshire finals animation award by BBC Look North presenter Clare Frisby at The University of Lincolnshire and Humberside in Hull.

The young animator, of Westerley Crescent, Silsden, spent six months making her film, Something's Missing, while on a three-year animation course at the university.

For the film's soundtrack she used recordings of discussions between her musician dad Chris, 50, and his elderly mother Gwendolyne who suffers from Alzheimers disease.

Then she drew 4,500 individual pictures to create the animation for the six-and-a-half minute film.

Emma said: "It's about a day in the life of my grandma and follows her memories as she regresses into the past because of her illness.

"The title Something's Missing is named after a song grandma used to sing to my dad about a lad who was a bit simple, so it's not a derogatory title. The film starts with her in the present at the nursing home and finishes as she goes back to being a child."

Part of the prize includes her film being shown on Yorkshire TV's New Visions series which focuses on up-and-coming film makers.

Dad Chris said: "It's very touching for me personally and it's also very sad to watch the film. Emma has taken bits of artistic licence in some places but at the end of the piece it's very touching indeed."

RTS Yorkshire committee member Robin Small said: "What impressed the judges, who are all television professionals, was the combination of a strong story and the personal narrative of Something's Missing.

"They felt it was an incredibly strong combination and very good film making."

Since finishing college in June Emma has already worked with a Scottish animation company and will have some of her work screened on Yorkshire and Scottish TV.

Emma's film is due to be shown at the beginning of December.

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