Author: New College Lanarkshire: Film & Television

  • Film & Television Lecturer Kevin Walls has been putting YouTube through its paces delivering classes on the platform throughout the Covid- 19 pandemic. With blended learning and reduced physical contact with classes looking likely for the forseeable future, Kevin discusses the methodology and advantages of teaching using the world’s biggest streaming platform. “The COVID-19 pandemic…

  • “On Friday the 22nd of May I launched “Always The Worst” Podcast on twitch. A podcast around all things film and TV, the first episode featured a review The Wickerman…from 2006. Remakes or reboots are always to be approached with caution and this is no option. Myself and the other reviewers took a critical, albeit comical, look at the…

  • Film and Television lecturer Kim Beveridge has recently worked on two features for the performance company “The Flames”, which deal with issues surrounding the Covid-19 Pandemic. Kim writes: As associate artist of Tricky Hat for over 10 years I was fortunate enough to visit Japan in 2018, as part of the creative team on a…

  • An NQ Film and Photography student has made good use of his time during the Covid-19 lockdown. Maclej Gapik finished editing his documentary “Citizen of the World” which documents his travels to far-flung corners such as Jordan, Iceland, Italy and Durness. Writing about his film he said; “I am interested in exploring new things, meeting…

  • HND Television students were approached by HNC Hairdressing at Cumbernauld campus and asked to film a promotional video as part of their course work. Nadine Giles, HNC Hairdressing student said: “We set out to make a promotional video for the Hairdressing and Barbering courses within New College Lanarkshire at Cumbernauld Campus. The aim of the…

  • My factual feature is based around Gregg McNeil a wet plate collodion photographer originally from the United States. He runs a studio in Larbert, Falkirk, the only commercial wet plate photography business in the UK. I would like to question him about why he has chosen this form of photography and turn it into a…

  • Today the UK woke up to a Conservative Landslide victory in the first winter General Election since 1923. Boris Johnson’s campaign was run on “Get Brexit Done” and this largely resonated with votes in England and Wales who overwhelmingly voted in 2016 to leave Europe. The picture in Scotland is vastly different. the SNP won a…

  • On Monday the 9th December film students, friends and family gathered at the CCA in Glasgow for a night of short films and documentaries produced in the first term by HN Film students at NCL’s Cumbernauld campus.  The programme included Film Noir trailers and Horror films from our HNC students and a range of diverse…

  • “My second film, I tried a bit harder, went a bit deeper into the character and came out with a film better than my first effort. I tackled the subject of male suicide. Which is a subject I feel I owe a bit of thought about. I managed to get a composer called Emily Frances…

  • Monday 9th of December is the date for a night of short films from NCL HN Film and Television  students, which are being screened  in Centre of Contemporary Arts in Glasgow. Students across both HNC and HND levels of Film and Television have been invited to show the features they have been working on in…