Tag Archives: National Theatre of Scotland

Happy Ark Day | Scenes For Survival

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 … Continue reading

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Foundation Apprentices meet their mentor

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 … Continue reading

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Shift: Clocked In…Punched Out

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 … Continue reading

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Film & TV Students work their final “Shift”

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 … Continue reading

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Work is a four letter word

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 … Continue reading

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My week beats your year…

…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 … Continue reading

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Students “Shift” snow to ensure project is kept on track

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 … Continue reading

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‘Shift’ to Coatbridge allows more students to get in on the act

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 … Continue reading

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Students “Shift” up a Gear

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 … Continue reading

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TV students put in a good “Shift”

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 … Continue reading

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