BCIT – Television & Video Production

So as you may know, there’s this little sporting event going on in BC right now. There’s a little bit of media coverage and a few athletes have come to town to compete…

The result has been that BCIT is closed-down until March 1st.

Of course, even if we were open, we wouldn’t be getting much work done, seeing as how over 120 of our students and staff are working (and everyone getting paid!) for various media outlets involved in producing programming for the event. From NHK to NBC, CTV to OBS, both students and alumni are working everywhere, doing anything and everything.

More than just a film school…

BCIT – get working!

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Thursday’s shoot was on-location in New Westminster with a commercial for the “Old Spaghetti Factory”.

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First commercial production today for our first-year students.  Check out the gallery for more behind-the-scenes photos.

This year, the first 8 of our commercials will be SD shoots, then moving to HD for the second 8!

We are going on-location Thursday, should be fun!

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Had a chance to get our new Broadcast Pix switcher up and running last week!  Our HD gear is commissioned now as well, so we’re going to be starting HD productions in the next few weeks!

We’re starting the training process in order to get students out doing live multi-camera switched productions in the near future!  Students will be looking for production opportunities (read: non-profit projects) soon!

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A Productive day!

With a small group of volunteers, we assembled our five new Panasonic HPX-300 P2-HD camera packages!  Starting next term we’re going to be moving to HD productions and tapeless workflows.

Post production will be one one of our new Mac Pro edit suites which are loaded with both Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Studio, in addition to the Adobe suite of products to give TV & Video Production students the widest possible range of options for their post-production workflow.

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Today is our final episode of “studio 1 live”, our short-form live tv training process. Television students are responsible for both the “on camera” performances and the “behind the scenes” directing, audio mixing, camerawork, lighting, etc.

Next term we will be producing tv commercials for real clients, shooting music videos & news stories and much more!

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** REGISTRATION CLOSES THIS WEEK – DETAILS INSIDE **

Rogers SportsNet – Sports Broadcasting Seminar at BCIT

Saturday, November 21, 2009

The Details

Over the past several years, more than 100 students each year have mixed with and learned from Sportsnet personalities and production personnel, along with local sports broadcasting and print figures at this annual Seminar.

This year sees our series of seminars and presentations focused on Reporting, Play-by-Play, Television Technical Production, Investigative Sports Reporting, Game Production, Public Relations, and repeats of our successful “Critique Sessions”, where the Sportsnet on-air pros assess student on-camera presentations.

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Additional screening added!

Monday October 19 – 8:30pm

Vancity Theatre – 1181 Seymour St. Vancouver

Normally a colourful, positive, vivacious young woman, Eva is only a ghost of herself when directors Nimisha Mukerji and Philip Lyall begin documenting her life for this heartrending film. She is suffering through the advanced stages of Cystic Fibrosis. She feels as if she is drowning on the inside – lungs so full of mucous each breath is nearly impossible. Eva’s lungs are functioning at minimal capacity as her family and friends helplessly watch her deteriorate. Physically beaten down by her disease, Eva needs a new set of lungs to save her life. She waits – months – for news of a donor.

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If you get a chance to go to the Vancouver International Film Festival, be sure to get a ticket for 65_RedRoses, winner of the Top Ten Audience Favourite Award at Hot Docs 2009.

BCIT Television alumni Justin Cousineau worked to edit this very special documentary which chronicles the remarkable story of a young woman who requires a double lung transplant in order to live through Cystic Fibrosis.

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I’ve spent a couple of days putting an photo book together for the first-year events from 2009.  Have a look and see what you think (PDF download below).

I mostly did this just for myself as an experiment, however I think it turned out pretty well, and if there’s enough interest, I could put a group purchase together to get an actual printed version for anyone who wants one (about $50 for hardcover 8.5×11″, $15 for softcover 8×6″)

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