Tag: National Theatre of Scotland
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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 online. The fruits of their labour, Happy Ark Day is a short film shot entirely…
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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 Theatre of Scotland and is responsible for the creation of high quality trailers and promotional…
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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 production – staged onsite at Summerlee by the National Theatre of Scotland – embraces several of them…
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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 begins tonight at Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life in Coatbridge. “This is a superb example…
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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 found renewed energy as they approach the 7th week of filming. On Monday evening, HNC Film…
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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 latest Shift video, a presentation for a partner college in South Africa and music promo…
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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 with the professional actors who are taking part in the project. On Wednesday, John Pittendreidh…
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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 about North Lanarkshire’s rich industrial heritage and Justin Parkes, Industrial History curator spoke at length…
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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 received from NTS was excellent and it set up the second week’s filming nicely. Two…
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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 talking about the project on location at Summerlee Heritage Museum. On Tuesday night Radoslaw Wnuk, Maja…