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…

…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…

At the start of the week 3 of the “Shift” project, our students were asked to return to Summerlee Heritage centre and interview two key people for the project. Clare Weir, Collections and Exhibitions Manager was on hand to talk about North Lanarkshire’s rich industrial heritage and Justin Parkes, Industrial History curator spoke at length…

The second week of the NTS “Shift” project began with both TV classes reviewing the previous weeks work and identifying the main strengths and weaknesses of the final short video which went live the previous Friday. The feedback the students received from NTS was excellent and it set up the second week’s filming nicely. Two…

Monday the 5th of February saw the very first day of location filming on the Shift project for HNC Film and Television students Laura Gilbert and Shannon Munro. Simon Sharkey, Associate Director of NTS (National Theatre of Scotland) was filmed talking about the project on location at Summerlee Heritage Museum. On Tuesday night Radoslaw Wnuk, Maja…

HN level Film and Television students met with the National Theatre of Scotland on Friday the 2nd of February for a briefing session on the live location filming they will be undertaking to document the theatre group’s Shift project. Shift is an arts project for the people of New Lanarkshire, a large scale, multi-media theatrical event…