Golden Ticket Cheer and Dance Championships

On February 23, 2012, in Television & Video Production, by Television Faculty

Golden Ticket Cheer and Dance Championships

Saturday, March 3, 2012 – 9:00am to 4:30pm

Live Stream Produced by BCIT Television & Video Production students

Live Stream available on BCIT-Broadcast.com

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Variety Show of Hearts Telethon

On February 18, 2012, in Television & Video Production, by Television Faculty

Many alumni of the Television & Video Production Program work on the annual Variety Show of Hearts Telethon, and we usually arrange a tour for our students so they can see what goes into the “behind the scenes” production of the event.

Visiting the set is a great chance for our first-year students to begin making industry connections with the production staff (many of whom work at Global Television, ProShow, and many local industry freelancers)…

This group of first-year TV students (posing with one of our TV instructors, who also works the event yearly), started off by touring the production Saturday morning, and subsequently volunteered, or were hired – doing everything from PA’ing and working with the producers, to studio camera for the live show…

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Touring the stations

On February 13, 2012, in Television & Video Production, by Television Faculty

One of our annual first-year activities in the Television & Video Production Program is touring our students through various Television stations (and maybe some other stops!) in the lower mainland.

Not only do the tours give our students a chance to see the operations and equipment behind the scenes at local broadcasters, they’re generally the first chance our students have to meet the staff and develop the connections that can lead to a job!

Of course, it’s always a benefit to our staff as well, who get to reconnect with our alumni and see what they’re doing now.  At CTV today, we ran into quite a few BCIT Alumni: Carl, Kim, Jeannine, Johnny, and Derek.  And there’s another half-dozen or so grads who we missed due to the timing of our afternoon visit (Jenn, Sam, Ara and a few others!).  One of the great strengths of our program is our network of industry connections!

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First Year Commercial Productions

On February 6, 2012, in Television & Video Production, by Television Faculty

It’s February, which means our first-year Television & Video Production students are in the midst of commercial productions!

The projects begin at this time in the spring every year and are designed to take the foundation skills that students learn in courses teaching planning productions, camera, lighting, editing and writing, and apply them in team projects.

The first set of commercials that the student production companies are working on this term:

  • BC Transplant Society
  • Commercial Drive Midwives
  • Nike 6.0 Shoes
  • Press Start Video Games
  • Muscular Sclerosis Society Canada
  • Frank’s Red Hot
  • What8ver Cafe
  • BCIT SIFE