Category: News

  • In the main we tend to focus on student success stories, but we seldom talk about what happens when things go wrong. In March of this year, three HND students attended an event in Glasgow where they were asked to document the day and evening. The Question Session event at the CCA was organised by…

  • The Film & TV department have entered into a partnership with Lady Rocks, Glasgow’s female section of basketball team, Glasgow Rocks. The team caters for girls aged 10 through to Senior women, and play in the Scottish Basketball Championship. From September 2018, we will be filming senior home games on a Friday evening at the…

  • 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. One of the units timetabled this term is Compositing and Motion Graphics where the students design a logotype…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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 …

  • …so penned Lou Reed in his liner notes for his seminal masterpiece “Metal Machine Music”. In some ways this also sums up the Film & TV department at Cumbernauld. Last week the students worked on 5 different project including the latest Shift video, a presentation for a partner college in South Africa and music promo…

  • Film & TV Lecturer, Alan Moffat, visited Pirie Park Primary School in Govan this week as part of the school’s planned activities on STEM. He spoke to three P4 classes about some of the technical roles that make up the Film & TV sector and he also gave a practical demonstration of some of the equipment…

  • After a visit from the “Beast from the East”, the HNTV students got back into the “Shift” project and delivered an edit for Week 5. Johnathan Lynn and Cameron Shaw visited Whifflet Community centre on Tuesday evening and filmed interviews with the professional actors who are taking part in the project. On Wednesday, John Pittendreidh…