New College Lanarkshire: Film & Television

Digital Imaging, Photography, Film and Television Production Courses

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  • The Carmen Bear

    The Carmen Bear is a short documentary directed and edited by Kieran Gallagher during his HND course at NCL.

    Filmed entirely on location in County Tyrone, Ireland, the documentary profiles upcoming amateur heavyweight boxer Rauri Haughey, as he prepares for a fight at the Patrician Hall in his hometown of Carrickmore.

    Kieran took on a range of production roles in shooting this feature as he was solely responsible for the camera operation, sound recording and interviews for this film.

    After completing his HND, Kieran went on to study at Degree level at the University of the West of Scotland.

  • Storyboarding “A Fever In The Blood”

    Storyboarding for  “A Fever In The Blood”

    HND Film & Television students were hard at work today developing shot lists and storyboards for their upcoming short film project “A Fever In The Blood”, a short film adapted from a Cohen brother’s screenplay.

    Storyboards are an often neglected aspect of aspiring film maker’s pre-production process, but they should always form the basis of your shoot and schedule.  They illustrate the cinematic language of your film, the framing conventions and narrative events. Students often complain that they lack the drawing skills needed to produce storyboards,  but storyboards are less about drawing and more based around communicating the shots needed to cast and crew. Many directors still draw their own storyboards for a shoot, no matter how basic their drawing skills.

    Storyboards become even more important when you are shooting scenes out of sequence.  The storyboard enables you to fit it everything together, no matter what order you shoot your locations/scenes in.

    Below are some particularly nice examples from Jonathan Lynn’s feature French Film Blurred, developed on our HNC Film & Television course.

  • HND Graduate London Bound

    Congratulations go out to Daryl Devine, one of our HND 2016/17 graduates who has recently been accepted on to the BA Hon’s Degree in Digital Film Production at Ravensbourne University in London.

    We wish Daryl all the best with his studies and hope that at some point in the future he can return and screen some of his degree productions and give our continuing HN students some feedback on studying film in London.

     

  • Bratva

    A carelessly planned liquid latex robbery has some unexpected consequences for a couple of amateur thieves, when the Russian mafia, the Bratva, get involved.

    Scripted, directed and produced by Stuart McConville for his HNC Graded Unit short film, Bratva was one of the standout submissions from 2013, with a solid script, good performances from the cast and some excellent camera work.

    After completing his HND at NCL, Stuart went on to study at Degree level at the University of the West of  Scotland.

  • Little Sister

    Little Sister is one track 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 Film & TV 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.

  • Young Man’s Old Man

    “Politics is in a kerfuffle at the moment. The usual suspects are being rejected and all kinds of crazy individuals are taking the reins. Arguably, this started with the rise of Jeremy Corbyn in the UK, and the reactions were strong. But they were all a rather singular voice, all a bit, past it.  I think it’s time to present something a little different”

    Short documentary, researched and shot by HND TV student Daryl Devine in his final year here at the Film and Television department at NCL. Using a series of filmed interviews and archive footage from various sources this documentary looks at the political landscape of the UK through the eyes of young people and takes aim at a perceived media bias in the treatment and reportage on Labour’s current leader, Jeremy Corbyn.

    With hindsight, Daryl’s documentary was closer to the mark than many of the political commentators and pundits forecasting results for the June 2017 election. Daryl had begun the project in late 2016 and completed this final cut in May 2017. This documentary gives voice to the often neglected political views of young adults living in the UK.

  • A Kestrel’s Manoeuvres in the Park

    A music video planned, shot and edited over one week during New College Lanarkshire’s Creative Break 2015 for the artist Pioneers of Anaesthetics.

    A happy accident during the post production process in After Effects gave this video its distinctive look and feel. In the creative process serendipity can sometimes play a major part.

    Creative Break is an annual event in our HND Film/TV course where HN Film and Sound Production students come together to record a track and make an accompanying music promo for a third party artist or band.

    Directed and produced by Matthew Burns and Sarah Malikov.

  • French Film Blurred

    “A washed out salesman’s disappointing life turns from bad to worse when his wife’s lover winds up dead and he’s left with the body. French Film Blurred is a story of gangsters, double crossers and some sorry saps who wind up stuck in the middle of it all.”

    Scripted, directed, edited and produced by Jonathan Lynn for his Graded Unit (1) Short Fiction Film, French Film Blurred was one of our outstanding submissions this year.

    Johnny paid particular attention to the sound recording and music in this film, scoring and creating bespoke tracks for the feature.  He also created very slick and professional titles and credits, using After Effects in the Digital Imaging and 2D Animation unit. One of the modules included in our HNC course.

  • Brian Miller Documentary

    Short documentary project shot by HND TV 2017 students about Brian Miller, the first New Town Artist in Scotland, who created many public art pieces in and around Cumbernauld.

    Producer/Researcher/Interviewer: Cheryl-Marie Healy
    Producer/Director/Editor: Daryl Devine
    Producer/Sound Recorder: Andrew Irvine
    Producer/Camera Operator: Gina De Lappe

  • Only In Dreams

    Only In Dreams is a promotional music video produced during New College Lanarkshire’s Creative Break 2017 for the music artist NNYLS.  Director: Jonathan Lynn (HNC Film & Television).

    The technics of this very abstract shoot involve pointing a video camera at its own live feed monitor to produce a video feedback loop.  This is an old and established technique used in many films and videos over the years, including the original Doctor Who titles from 1963.  The French have a phrase for this phenomenon; Mise en Abyme which literally means “placed into the abyss.”