Digital Imaging, Photography, Film and Television Production Courses
“A vulnerable young woman is lured to a house of religious zealots. Defenceless and alone, can she survive the crazed cultists and defy their sinister leader?”
Produced in his HNC year as his Graded Unit (1) Short Fiction Film, The Fellowship of Theo was scripted, directed and edited by Daryl Devine.
Ali Murray, one of our visiting lecturers in the Faculty of Computing and Creative Industries at Cumbernauld campus, recently completed the sound design and dubbing mix for a new film, Stockholm, My Love, directed by Mark Cousins.
It follows one woman’s footsteps through the streets of her native city, on a journey of recovery from a bad thing that happened to her exactly one year before. It’s an exploration of grief, identity and the power of architecture and urbanism to shape lives, and a celebration of the power of walking and looking to make us all feel just a little bit better. With new music by Neneh Cherry and old music by Benny Andersson (of ABBA) and Franz Berwald.
Ali said:
“I’ve known the director, Mark for a few years and worked with him on his last film, I am Belfast. Every now and again Mark gets in touch and says “Hey, I’ve got this idea!” Each film is very different and distinct but very much ‘Mark’. He looks at it all from a creative point of view and wants you to be creative too. It’s a pleasure to work with someone so enthusiastic.”
Ali’s work on the film took place last summer for around six weeks. For more information on Ali and his work, visit www.alimurraysound.com
Students of HND Sound Production and HNC and HNC Television courses had classes suspended for one week to take part in the ‘Creative Break’ project.
The 40 students involved were split into four teams and challenged to work with a band or singer-songwriter on recording a song and filming a promotional video from scratch.
The finished pieces included an instrumental by Jonathan Lynn (aka NNYLS) entitled ‘Only In Dreams’, a politically-charged track ‘Definitely The Vipers’ by Gregor Thomas (aka Good Cop Bad Cop), ‘Resolution’ by Snout, and ‘Tell It To The Mountain’ by Garry Thomson (aka G Lazarus & The Cartel).
All participants attended a showcase on the final day at which the videos were screened and each group received a gold disc in recognition of their efforts. Over the coming weeks, students will be encouraged to revisit the videos and learn what could be improved upon in future.
Singer-songwrite Gregor Thomas decided to take part as a recording artist in Creative Break after working on the visuals as an HN Film and TV student last year.
Gregor, who hosts the ‘New Town Sessions’ for Cumbernauld FM, said:
“I really enjoyed being a part of the whole experience last year. My track ‘Definitely The Vipers’ is quite political and the video is about a poker game in which the dealer is cheating and the players have their hands literally tied, but still have to play the game. I’ve experienced Creative Break from both sides now and it has been a really positive experience for me.”
Garry Thomson from Airdrie chose to participate on his own after his band, Black Cat Revue, were unable to take part due to work commitments. Garry, who studies HNC Television, said:
“I like to make music and often you don’t have access to the facilities as much as you would like to.When this opportunity came along, I thought that it was too good an opportunity to let it pass by. Ideally I wanted to get my whole group involved, but with the guys all working and having commitments, it just became more difficult. I had people around who helped me out with drums and backing vocals.”
In previous years, artists involved in Creative Break have included Kill Surrrf, Chris Ashton (who was a contestant on last year’s X Factor), Light Arrows, Pioneers of Anaesthetic and Black Swamp Villains.
Lecturer Andreas Jonsson said:
“I’m really happy with the results both from a sound point of view and a film point of view. There have been some really creative ideas, particularly in sound. Every year that we’ve done this, students have come away from it with a good motivation for going forward. This kick-starts their creativity and reminds them why they’re in the creative industries and it is to do these collaborative projects and work with people and be creative. That’s always a positive thing.”
Former HND Film & Television graduate Yvette Malone returned to New College Lanarkshire to give a guest lecture to our current NC Film & Photography students as part of their Creative Process unit.
Yvette is a documentarist and vlogger currently in the final year of her BA Hon’s in Television at City of Glasgow college. During the course of her lecture she presented both her HNC short film “Ceasefire” and her HND documentary “Cage Break” before talking about her current project EVTV, a YouTube channel highlighting veganism and vegan issues.
” Giving our students the chance to hear about former graduate’s experiences after they’ve left NCL is a great way of inspiring, motivating and educating our learners in their own progression choices. Yvette’s lecture was full of personal insight and experience about this process and many of the students have given very good feedback about her presentation.”– Michael Grant
Film & Television Lecturer
Two HND TV students worked side by side with the Sky Sports team to film the Scottish Cup tie between Albion Rovers and Celtic on the 22nd January, 2017.
Dale McLean and Brandon Shanley had the opportunity to film the event alongside the broadcasting giants following a partnership initiated for their Work Experience unit with Albion Rovers to film all their matches.
Students from 0ur current HNC Film & Television course are out and about over the next few weeks filming at Palacerigg, Almond Valley Heritage Centre, Summerlee Industrial Museum and Culross, getting to grips with the basic techniques of location shooting.
The class is split into small teams, who are tasked with getting a range of shots and interviews from each location in preparation for their News Gathering unit, which takes place over ten weeks next Semester.
BBC The Social showcases daily content from creative people across Scotland and recently featured content from one of our former 2015 HND students, David Gray.
David studied at HNC and HND level with us, before progressing on to year two of a Film-making & Screenwriting degree at the University of the West of Scotland.
If you are a content creator and would like to get involved visit BBC The Social.
Congratulations go out to our HND Film & Television student Duncan Formosa, who has been accepted onto the prestigious Royal Conservatoire Scotland’s multi award winning BA in Film-making, one of the most competitive and acclaimed film courses in the UK.
“Duncan has been one of the hardest working and arguably one of the most technically gifted students we have had on the Television course. He eats, sleeps and dreams film-making and his passion for the subject has shone through. The selection panel at The Royal Conservatoire have thankfully recognised this. We are hoping that Duncan will return at some point and show us some of his productions.”
– Alan Moffat,
Film & Television Lecturer.
Three New College Lanarkshire HND Film & TV students have gained valuable work experience through producing a promo video for Burnett Motorsport during their work experience unit. Martin Boyle, Josh Mckinlay and Justin McGuire were tasked with filming the team’s exploits on location at Knockhill race track. Martin said:
“We arrived at the Knockhill on Saturday, which was a test day and explored the track to scout appropriate filming locations. There were many warm up races so we had plenty of opportunities to fine tune our filming approach for the next day. We experimented with shooting at different frame rates for coherent slow motion shots to be composed in the edit. Once we were satisfied with our set up, we filmed interviews with the drivers and mechanics.”
“On Sunday morning we were teamed with the Burnett Motors TV team who gave us free reign to film. Justin and Josh filmed races while I shot the preparation of the Legends class motors. While filming these shots I was introduced to Stevie, the head of the Burnett Motors team who wanted me to set up the GoPro cameras for in car footage. This was a great opportunity to work with new equipment. I worked the GoPro set up for the rest of the races while Josh and Justin shot the track footage and continued interviewing. The Burnett Motorsport team won the competition, so we capped off the experience with footage of their trophy presentation and celebration. Our contact at Burnett throughout the weekend was Chris Wallace who was extremely helpful and accommodating.”
Former New College Lanarkshire HND Film & TV student Jamie Logie featured in a BBC Scotland documentary “How Scotland Works” which aired last night.
In the documentary, Jamie talks about his role as part of the very successful new music website/channel Tenement TV. The company, who are based in the heart of Glasgow’s West End, record professional stripped back live sessions in their state of the art top floor studio and also ‘On Location’ at various venues/ festivals / events across the UK.
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