The first round of judging for the UK Music Video Awards 2014 has now begun in over 20 awards categories, with all the entries in the music genre and technical achievement categories being judged by the MVA Jury Membership - comprised of hundreds of music video professionals from the UK and beyond – via the online judging platform.

Each Jury Member has now received an email from Louise Stevens, Event Director of the UK Music Video Awards, explaining the category or categories they've been asked to judge, the criteria they should apply for the judging, and asked to select their six favourite videos per category.

The email will also contain the Jury Member's personal login and password to access the videos on the judging platform - and this will also be their login details when the Individual Awards judging opens to all Jury Members later in September.

The deadline for making selections is next Thursday, September 12th. Then a shorter list of the Jury Members' favourite videos will go forward to a second round of judging, which will take place in a series of live panel sessions later this month. If you are an MVA Jury Member, and have yet to receive an email, get in touch with the UKMVA team at info@ukmva.com.

This year's shortlists for the UKMVAs will be announced in early October, with this year's UK Music Video Awards taking place at Queen Elizabeth Hall at London's Southbank Centre for the second year in succession, on Monday November 10th. Tickets to the ceremony and aftershow will go on sale shortly.