Mar 11

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!

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Mar 06

More commercials this week.  We’re back from our Olympic break and back to work!

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.

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Jan 22

Mmmm… Spaghetti!

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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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Jan 19

BCST 2220 – TV Commercials

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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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Dec 17

HD Gear Setup!

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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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