Underwear and chocolate

On March 6, 2010, in Television & Video Production, by Television Faculty

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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Clean Shoes & Whiskey!

On January 29, 2010, in Television & Video Production, by Television Faculty

Our commercial productions this week fell into two categories:  Cleaning Products and Drinking Products.

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…

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Mmmm… Spaghetti!

On January 22, 2010, in Television & Video Production, by Television Faculty

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

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.

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BCST 2220 – TV Commercials

On January 19, 2010, in Television & Video Production, by Television Faculty

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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Live production training!

On December 3, 2009, in Television & Video Production, by Television Faculty

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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