Category: News

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Foundation apprentices in Creative and Digital Media at NCL’s Motherwell campus met with an industry mentor last week and got a chance to pitch ideas for their forthcoming projects. Seth Hardwick is a video producer who works with the National Theatre of Scotland and is responsible for the creation of high quality trailers and promotional…

  • The Film & Television department are pleased to welcome Matthew Hardie and Peter Findlay to the team as our new Audio/Video Technicians. Matthew is an alumni of NCL who began his academic journey in 2015, studying Sound Production and then Film & Photography.  In addition to his academic skills he is also a keen musician…

  • The Film and Television department recently welcomed a new member of staff who will be teaching across all levels of our courses in the coming academic year. Digital artist, film maker and video designer Kim Beveridge originally worked with the Film & Television department in 2018 on the “Shift” project, a large scale multi-media theatrical…

  • Recently, a couple of students from HND TV raised a petition in order to gain support for the scrapping of the Parking Fees that have recently been applied in Cumbernauld Town centre. As students, they feel as though they are being unfairly punished for attending college and they are attempting to gather as many signatures…

  • Two NC Film and Photography students; Hannah Love and Barbara Ostrowska, accompanied sports students from NCL’s Broadwood campus to document their recent two week trip to Murcia, Spain funded by the Erasmus programme. The two were tasked with filming and photographing the sports students during an intensive programme of football coaching and training, which included…