Category: News

  • A group of New College Lanarkshire HND Film and Sound students are celebrating after winning an international Film award. Stuart McConville, Neil McNicol and Will Conway formed Team Effin A! Films to take part in the 48 Hour Film Project.  The competition is the world’s largest timed film-making competition which attracted more than 60,000 teams.…

  • Cumbernauld and Motherwell students came together to entertain fellow students with an afternoon of music at Cornerstone House in Cumbernauld. The students put on an acoustic/rock event which took its inspiration from Jools Holland’s eponymous BBC show. The joint partnership event featured around 40 students from both campuses. Alan Moffat, Film & Television lecturer said: “The…

  • A two day Direct Print workshop led by the Glasgow artist and renowned VJ Simon Richardson was delivered to NC Art students and HNC Television students recently. Simon has over 15 years experience making and exhibiting 16mm scratch film animations, mostly working as a VJ in nightclubs creating real time light based responses to the…

  • Three HNTV students recently attended  Moving Image: Scotland 2013, held at GMAC in Glasgow. Students took part in peer review as well as workshops delivered by Michael Hines (Still Game); Graham Johnstone (Gladiator) and Ed McCardie (Shameless) and were given the opportunity to network with students and industry  professionals.

  • Students from Motherwell and Cumbernauld colleges cemented their place in the history books on Sunday, December 2nd, when they performed inside the famous Wallace Monument. Thirty students from both colleges took part in the St Andrew’s Day celebrations at Stirling’s popular tourist attraction, which included a unique performance inside the monument. The musicians, from Motherwell…

  • Cumbernauld’s skies held a spectacular formation of Lenticular clouds this morning, that sent quite a few of us here at the Creative Industries department out for a photo and then online to do a little research. So, here’s the science…technically known as altocumulus standing lenticularus, these distinctive clouds form at high altitudes as strong winds blow over…

  • Almond Valley Heritage Centre were approached and asked whether they would consider allowing HNCTV students to shoot a promotional video for their facility.  The students didn’t know the project brief until they arrived at the centre and  had to quickly work out roles within their allocated teams and assign duties in line with the task.…

  • New College Lanarkshire HNC Film & TV students have recently completed a short promotional video for the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow.  The film focuses on the hospital’s MediCinema facility and the difference it makes to children who are receiving treatment at the hospital. “The MediCinema is a great provision for giving the…

  • HNC Film & TV students earned some valuable work experience filming two informational videos for broadcast at STV’s website. The students were tasked with researching and creating  ten-minute films, to highlight some of the many activities going on in Cumbernauld. Students Neil Irving and Danielle Campbell took to the skies, piloting a small plane over…

  • This years HNCTV Film Noir project has seen some collaboration between Film and Television students and the department of hairdressing. To achieve an authentic film noir look, students worked together researching hair and make up styles from the 1940’s and 1950’s. Film student Danielle Campbell received a striking makeover for a role in her groups…