Category: Student Films

  • Over the lockdown period HND Television student Jasmin Ewing got involved with the digital project Scenes for Survival, a collaboration between BBC Scotland and National Theatre of Scotland creating a specially curated new digital programme of work that is available online. The fruits of their labour, Happy Ark Day is a short film shot entirely…

  • An NQ Film and Photography student has made good use of his time during the Covid-19 lockdown. Maclej Gapik finished editing his documentary “Citizen of the World” which documents his travels to far-flung corners such as Jordan, Iceland, Italy and Durness. Writing about his film he said; “I am interested in exploring new things, meeting…

  • My factual feature is based around Gregg McNeil a wet plate collodion photographer originally from the United States. He runs a studio in Larbert, Falkirk, the only commercial wet plate photography business in the UK. I would like to question him about why he has chosen this form of photography and turn it into a…

  • “My second film, I tried a bit harder, went a bit deeper into the character and came out with a film better than my first effort. I tackled the subject of male suicide. Which is a subject I feel I owe a bit of thought about. I managed to get a composer called Emily Frances…

  • “My main plan for my showreel is to show off my work as a director and writer. To this end I will need to show footage from projects I have written and directed myself over the last few years. Thankfully I have worked on some projects in college including my graded unit from last year…

  • “The music for my showreel is written and provided by my friend Saga Wahlström. The music is inspired by Woodkid’s “Run boy Run”. It is quite an up-tempo song with a sort of thrilling feel to it. In the middle of it, there is a slower, calmer part which helps building up to the last…

  • “The reel will be a progression of my experience through college – all the projects, events and time I have spent towards working on my portfolio – so for me it will be especially nostalgic. I want to be able to have the viewer feel the same.” – Chloe Cummins, HND Film & TV Student…

  • Three former NCL HND graduates have created a new promotional video for New College Lanarkshire’s Film/TV and Sound Production departments. Film and Television alumni Johnny Lynn and Duncan Formosa and Sound Production graduate Kieran Greig were tasked with producing a promotional short to highlight the skillsets and equipment utilised in the areas of Film/TV and…

  • HND Film and Television student James Reid and lecturer Alan Moffat recently followed a team of students from the HND Sound Production course down into the Inchindown underground oil tanks in Invergordon, Ross-shire to document a very special ambient recording project. Tasked with capturing a sound source in an acoustically interesting environment, Erin McHugh, Andrew…

  • “The idea for the showreel is to craft a narrative of some sort.. I want to use more than one soundtrack so I can demonstrate editing to different pacing. I plan to introduce the showreel with the titles, showing my name and that it’s an editing and cinematography showreel. Then I plan to move into some footage…