Come out and meet us at the BIG info session & Program Expo!

If you’re interested in seeing what the BCIT Television and Video Production program has to offer, drop by BCIT’s Burnaby campus on Wednesday, March 31st from 5-8pm.

The entire Broadcast Department will be set up in TownSquare A/B so visitors can meet our students and faculty, and have a look at the Television and Video Production program’s new P2-HD production workflow combined with our new Broadcast Pix production system for live events!

First up this week, and a first for our new P2-HD production cameras is a PSA for the Delta Community Animal Shelter.

Some people are unwilling or unable to deal with troublesome pets, and their first choice is to get rid of them – but you wouldn’t do that to your own children… Would you?

We also had a bit of a problem at BCIT this week with zombies…  Normally when encountering zombies, survivors of the apocalypse don’t have to worry.  Zombies move both slowly and awkwardly and are easy to avoid.

Well, unless they’ve found a case of “Beaver Buzz” energy drink, which can “wake the dead”…

No zombies were harmed in the making of this commercial.  The “survivors” on the other hand…

First up this week was the classic story of a poor guy that gives his girl an “unfortunate” gift on a special day.  The end result is that he ended up in the doghouse.  Check the image gallery to see if you can spot the ill-advised gift…

Our second commercial of the week was actually a public service announcement to try and encourage people not to drink and drive.  Although you won’t see it on the gallery photos, the idea is that everyone has a “life clock” that shows how much time they have left before death.

Of course, drinking and driving would cause that number to be shortened rather quickly…

If you look carefully at some of the photos, you’ll see CG tracking dots on some of the actors where the students will be using After Effects to composite-in tracked countdown clocks.  Should be interesting!

The first-year class had our first field-trip of the term and got to tour through CBC Vancouver’s new digs.  The recent construction did wonders for the newsroom and production facilities.  Very nice!

First up this week was a commercial for Fruit of the Loom underwear.  Thanks to the kind folks at Knowledge: for allowing us to use their studio for the white cyc background.

Next up was a commercial for Purdy’s chocolates – allowing a young businesswoman who has a less than successful presentation, but melts the hearts of the board members with a box of tasty chocolates!

Coming up soon – our first commercial productions using our new P2-HD HPX-300 cameras.  We are happy to be teaching tapeless workflows!  When combined with our Facilis and Omneon servers, it’s a potent combination.

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!

We used the portable system to successfully replicate the same “Studio 1 Live” show that we produced earlier in the year with a full control room, audio room, and VTR room within the broadcast centre.  The possibilities are very interesting indeed…

First up was SoftMoc shoe cleaner.  Shot in-studio and on location, showing the product and giving an example of the real-world messes it might have to clean up!

Next was a commercial for Jim Beam Bourbon Whiskey – illustrating the hazards of attempting a romantic encounter when alcohol is involved…

Some of our second-year students showed up with a bit of HD production gear to shoot behind the scenes video for use in a promotional video which should be showing up in a few weeks.

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!