Production Production Production

On March 29, 2016, in Television & Video Production, by Television Faculty

This is going to be a slightly graphics-intensive update, we’ve been busy…

 

We haven’t posted any updates for a bit, because we’ve been CRAZY BUSY (well, that and Spring Break!).  In the last three weeks we’ve been producing student commercials at:

And we’d like to thank all of these local businesses for allowing our students to practice their production skills!  There have been lots of great learning experiences, including how to deal with Lower Mainland weather when shooting exteriors (bring rain gear, stay warm, craft services coffee), how to deal with unplanned power outages in your studio (commandeer an instructor’s office with windows), and how to shoot in a collectibles shop, when your crew and instructors are geeking-out over all of the goodies (limit the amount of spending money you bring!).

Only a few weeks of the term left before we switch into “Practicum Mode”, where our Television & Video Production students work with the Broadcast & Online Journalism students to create our weekly BCIT Magazine newscast!

And as always, the full sets of images from our location productions can be found on our Flickr album!

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Operation Smile

On March 1, 2016, in Television & Video Production, by Television Faculty

Operation Smile was founded in 1982 when Dr. William (Bill) P. Magee, Jr., a plastic surgeon, and his wife, Kathleen (Kathy), a nurse and clinical social worker, traveled to the Philippines with a group of medical volunteers to repair children’s cleft lips and cleft palates.

You can see our full gallery of behind-the-scenes production photos on our Flickr Page as well!

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Josh Platzer Society

On March 1, 2016, in Television & Video Production, by Television Faculty

The Josh Platzer Society For Teen Suicide Prevention and Awareness was founded by Jude Platzer in 2001 after the death of her teen-aged son Josh. The Josh Platzer Society (JPS) impacts the community through awareness raising initiatives and hands-on workshops. JPS runs a speaker series to schools helping equip students to deal with the struggles of depression and thoughts of suicide.

You can see our full gallery of behind-the-scenes production photos on our Flickr Page as well!

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Fentanyl Awareness

On February 11, 2016, in Television & Video Production, by Television Faculty

This past Tuesday, we were on-set with Empire Production’s PSA to promote awareness of Fentanyl abuse by youth.  This PSA is being produced to coincide with the drug awareness messages promoted by deal.org, the RCMP Centre for Youth Crime Prevention.

You can see our full gallery of behind-the-scenes production photos on our Flickr Page as well!

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First week of First-Year Productions

On February 1, 2014, in Television & Video Production, by Television Faculty

The first week of our term-2 Television student projects has been a busy one!

On Tuesday, our first-year production team “Keen-Wa Productions” was shooting a PSA promoting workplace gender equality using our new Sony FS-700 cinema camera, and on Thursday, “4:1 Films” faced the elements as we produced an exterior shoot for a bicycle safety public service announcement.

Only a small part of the production is on-set however; students spend weeks of work planning and preparing these productions!  Just showing up to shoot is easy, going fully prepared, and with all of the necessary documentation is a lot of work!

The faculty lectured on Music Videos (with a generous helping of Michael Jackson!), and we demonstrated some of our production gear such as the Jimmy Jib with a remote camera head, and HD field monitors.

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