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.
Yvette Malone
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 Film & Television course at New College Lanarkshire, Yvette went on to study BA Hon’s in Television at Napier University’s Glasgow campus, graduating with a First Class Honours Degree in 2017.
You can catch Yvette at her YouTube channel Electric Vegan where she puts her production skills as a documentarist and vlogger to good use in her channel which is based around Vegan and animal activisim issues.
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.
Actors Stuart Bell and Colleen Hay play the leads in the short film “Difference”.
Johnny chose a simple and topical theme of the difference between a man and a woman, in their preparations and experience of a night out, using his post production skills to composite a split screen effect to tell both stories simultaneously.
Written, Directed, Filmed and Edited by Jonathan Lynn.
Production Sound – Sean Gallagher.
Post Production Sound – Thomas Dornan
Cast:
Colleen Bell as The Woman
Stuart Hay as The Man
Steven Warnock as The Sleaze
Extras –
Pete Smith
Lewis Matheson
Garry Thomson
Cameron Shaw
Benji Lynn
Jordan McBride
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 a small number of staff and local volunteers.
HND Film and Television students, Daryl Devine and Hannah Knowles, were tasked with filming on location at the Watch Us Grow garden and shop at Palacerigg and shooting an interview with Watch Us Grow’s general manager Anne McCulloch, who gives some background to the organisation in the film.
“It is particularly satisfying for our students in HN Film and Television to create and produce promotional content for third sector charities like “Watch Us Grow”.
Organisations like this often struggle to find the funds to produce filmed promotional content. Short films like these can offer different viewpoints around an issue and give social enterprises such as these a much needed promotional platform for their endeavours.”
-Michael Grant, Film & Television Lecturer.
For more details on Watch Us Grow please visit their website at:
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.
Production storyboards for Jonathan Lynn’s Dog Dead Productions
One of the units timetabled this term is Compositing and Motion Graphics where the students design a logotype for their own production company and render an animation for it in Adobe’s After Effects. This animation will form the opening sequence for their finished showreels. This unit is one of a number in our HN Film & Television course that teaches post-production and specific software skills.
Applications for our HNC Film & Television course (beginning 20th August 2018) are now being taken. To apply follow this link
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 in strikingly epic style.”
– Mary Brennan, The Herald.
“Visually the production is stunning and spectacular in nature. Moments of beautiful live music, smoke and flashing lights to large white globes turning from back breaking products of labour into a fun game in which the audience is included.”
– Lucy Newbery, Underdog Reviews.
The final episode of SHIFT Transmission is also now online and looks back on the project with director Simon Sharkey and some of the community cast participants, who talk with affection about the friendships and memories that have been forged during this project. This last episode also features some vox pops with members of the audience, shot on the last night of the performance by HND Film and Television student Cameron Shaw.
The National Theatre of Scotland have been very generous in their praise of the contribution made by our HN Film and Television students over the last eight weeks:
“Thanks to all the wonderful students at New College Lanarkshire who’ve helped us go behind the scenes, the cast and creatives who brought SHIFT to life and to our audiences who braved the weather to come and put in a shift!”
And our own thanks go out to Emma Schad, Seth Hardwick and especially Lead Producer Kim Beveridge at The National Theatre of Scotland, for giving our students the chance to add such an ambitious and creative project to their production CVs.
Credits for Shift Transmission listing HN Film & Television students that worked on the project.
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 used to record the footage for the film, including a dolly track stage-front, a locked off camera at the back of the stage and three hand held cameras in operation during the gig. Weeks of planning led up to the show in November at Glasgow’s Oran Mor and New College Lanarkshire HN Film & Television students were involved in all parts of the production.
“‘There are no second chances with live events, and filming them is one of the most demanding and exciting areas of the business to work in. Giving the students the chance to work on actual industry projects like this offers them invaluable experience, which greatly benefits their own studies and work.”
“They were able to take part in each of stage of the project and saw the job through to completion, delivering a quality film of a great performance to one of the biggest media companies in the world – Universal.”
– Michael Grant, Film & TV Lecturer,
New College Lanarkshire.
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 of multi-agency partnership working where National Theatre of Scotland, North Lanarkshire Council and Creative Scotland have endeavoured to create what is perhaps the most ambitious theatre event ever to have been staged in North Lanarkshire.
The fact that they have chosen Summerlee as the venue to host this is quite poignant when you consider the importance of Lanarkshire and how it helped shape modern day Scotland.
Our Film & TV students have been documenting the journey through rehearsals as well as following the professional actors and community cast. The TV students and the acting students who are performing have been an absolute credit to the college and it is something their respective departments are very proud of.
Key personnel within project, as well as members of the wider community with whom the students have dealt with, have been immensely impressed by the maturity, professionalism and above all, the work ethic the students have shown. The show itself promises to be a truly memorable experience and I would personally recommend anyone living in and around the North Lanarkshire area to go along and see it”
-Alan Moffat, Film & Television Lecturer.
The event runs from Thursday 29th March to Sunday 1st April. Please note that this is an outdoor event which runs in the evening so it is recommended that you dress accordingly.
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 and Television students Darren Livingstone, Jim Reid and Maxine O’Hare travelled to Whifflet Community Centre to interview professional actors, Daniel Cahill and Fletcher Mathers. The next day, HND Film and Television’s Stephanie Black and Tam Wright went to St Margaret’s High School in Airdrie and filmed Daniel being interviewed by his former Drama teacher, Monica Nisbet. On Thursday, John Pittendreigh had perhaps the most challenging edit to date where he had to pick through 20 minutes of interviews. Again, the edit was delivered by the deadline on Friday.
“In some ways, the environment we grow up in shapes who we are and how we think about the world. Seeing Dan go back to school and be interviewed by his former teacher, as well as speak to the next generation of actors, in some ways sums up what Shift is about. He spoke at length about what the Shift project was and why its important that we don’t forget that Lanarkshire has such a rich industrial heritage and why it’s important that the next generation recognise the sacrifices their parents, grand parents and great grandparents made in forging their communities.
I’m very proud that our TV students have played a huge part in telling the Shift story and I’m hoping that they are starting to see the benefits of having a good work ethic…something we in the Film & TV department are always banging on about!!!”
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 new album; “High Fences”.
Director & DOP: Alan Moffat
2nd Camera: Albert Lucas (HND Film & Televsion, New College Lanarkshire)
“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.
‘Since starting my apprenticeship, my attitude to how my disability is portrayed has changed’
His apprenticeship has enabled him to get hands-on experience in a number of areas within the BBC, including stints across a range of departments covering TV, online services and Radio, where he joined the team behind Kaye Adam’s show for BBC Radio Scotland.
‘Stewart’s enthusiasm, dedication and passion for broadcast media were all apparent during his time at New College Lanarkshire studying HNC Film & Television and it’s heartwarming to hear that his apprenticeship with BBC Scotland has made a qualitative difference in how he views himself, his disability and his opportunities within the Creative Industries sector.’
-Michael Grant, Film & Television Lecturer
Modern apprenticeships have been developed to help new or existing employees enhance their skill sets. Working closely with Scotland’s industries and employers to make sure apprenticeships meet their needs. You can read more about Modern Apprenticeships and Stewart’s experience at this link
New College Lanarkshire: Film & Television 