New College Lanarkshire: Film & Television
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…so penned Lou Reed in his liner notes for his seminal masterpiece “Metal Machine Music”. In some ways this also sums up the Film & TV department at Cumbernauld. Last week the students worked on 5 different project including the latest Shift video, a presentation for a partner college in South Africa and music promo…
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Film & TV Lecturer, Alan Moffat, visited Pirie Park Primary School in Govan this week as part of the school’s planned activities on STEM. He spoke to three P4 classes about some of the technical roles that make up the Film & TV sector and he also gave a practical demonstration of some of the equipment…
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After a visit from the “Beast from the East”, the HNTV students got back into the “Shift” project and delivered an edit for Week 5. Johnathan Lynn and Cameron Shaw visited Whifflet Community centre on Tuesday evening and filmed interviews with the professional actors who are taking part in the project. On Wednesday, John Pittendreidh…
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At the start of the week 3 of the “Shift” project, our students were asked to return to Summerlee Heritage centre and interview two key people for the project. Clare Weir, Collections and Exhibitions Manager was on hand to talk about North Lanarkshire’s rich industrial heritage and Justin Parkes, Industrial History curator spoke at length…
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NC Film & Photography student Anthony Johnston has been putting his new Sony DSC-HX400V camera through its paces and has shared this atmospheric shot, taken during the cold snap a few weeks ago (31st January 2018). Anthony writes: “When I got to take home and trial my new college camera, nothing escaped the lens. I took…
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The second week of the NTS “Shift” project began with both TV classes reviewing the previous weeks work and identifying the main strengths and weaknesses of the final short video which went live the previous Friday. The feedback the students received from NTS was excellent and it set up the second week’s filming nicely. Two…
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This week the Film & TV department welcomed 4 students from Galway Technical Institute on a 3 week study visit. This follows on from the highly successful exchange from last year. The students were given their timetable and introduced to the classes they will be sitting in on. They were also given an overview of…
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Monday the 5th of February saw the very first day of location filming on the Shift project for HNC Film and Television students Laura Gilbert and Shannon Munro. Simon Sharkey, Associate Director of NTS (National Theatre of Scotland) was filmed talking about the project on location at Summerlee Heritage Museum. On Tuesday night Radoslaw Wnuk, Maja…
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HN level Film and Television students met with the National Theatre of Scotland on Friday the 2nd of February for a briefing session on the live location filming they will be undertaking to document the theatre group’s Shift project. Shift is an arts project for the people of New Lanarkshire, a large scale, multi-media theatrical event…
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NC Film & Photography students took delivery of their very own camera kit this week as part of a new initiative launched this year. The equipment will be theirs to keep on successful completion of their one year course as part of a costed programme within New College Lanarkshire for bursary funded students only. As…
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