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HND Film & Television student Yvette Malone’s short documentary exposes the cruel practices involved in the battery hen industry and how three ex-caged hens were rescued and re-housed. The documentary mixes hard hitting archive footage with location interviews and a skyped video presentation from the American animal activist Gary Yourofsky. Following on from her HND…
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Difference is a short film directed and produced by HND Film & Television student Johnny Lynn. It’s his response to a single word brief; “Difference” that was set by Napier University as part of the entrance criteria for their BA Film degree course interviews held in March 2018. Johnny chose a simple and topical theme…
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Watch Us Grow is a voluntary organisation, charity and social enterprise based in Cumbernauld. The organisation was established in 1999 with the aim of helping people with support needs lead more fulfilling lives. They use their garden facilities in Palacerigg Park to provide horticultural therapy, helping people build confidence, self esteem and employability skills, supported by…
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HND Film & Television students are now well underway with their final semester units and projects, filming documentaries, short films and music videos that will hopefully make it into their finished Graded Unit showreels due in June. One of the units timetabled this term is Compositing and Motion Graphics where the students design a logotype…
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The Shift project came to a spectacular conclusion last week with a four night run of live performances at Summerlee Heritage Museum, which received some glowing reviews. “The dictionary offers various meanings for the word ‘shift’: Simon Sharkey’s large-scale community production – staged onsite at Summerlee by the National Theatre of Scotland – embraces several of them…
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This cover of The Stone Roses’ “I Am The Ressurection” is the encore from an entire concert film titled “One Night With Codeine Velvet Club”. The film was planned, filmed, edited and produced by staff and students at New College Lanarkshire’s Film & TV Department, to promote the band’s debut UK tour. A five camera setup was…
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Last night marked the end of filming on the Shift project for our HN Television students. 27 students from both HNC and HND have worked tirelessly over the last 8 weeks on delivering promo material for the National Theatre of Scotland event which begins tonight at Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life in Coatbridge. “This is a superb example…
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There is a time when you near the end of a shift when you invariably start to clock watch. Everybody has done it at some point in their lives. However, the students working on the Shift project have not faltered and they found renewed energy as they approach the 7th week of filming. On Monday evening, HNC Film…
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Back in December we covered the shoot for James Edwyn & the Borrowed Band’s song “Pushing Statues”, which was filmed at the Pearce Institute in Govan. The band have now posted the finished edit of the video to their official YouTube channel. “Pushing Statues” is the second single from James Edwyn & The Borrowed Band’s …
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“My advice for anyone who’s thinking about applying for an apprenticeship is definitely three words: Take the plunge.” In 2015 former New College Lanarkshire HNC Television student Stewart Campbell beat over 1300 applicants to gain a BBC Scotland modern apprenticeship. His success was all the more impressive taking into account that he is severely-to-profoundly deaf.…