The First Lego League BC Provincial Championships were a nice opening live event production for the BCIT Television & Video Production students this year!
We had a great group of volunteers who donated their time on Friday and Saturday to produce the event. Our students were doing everything from running the cables to switching, directing, running the cameras and streaming the signal online. Check out the photo gallery for some behind the scenes production action!
We had a few technical issues with our internet feed that resulted in the quality being lower than we had hoped for, however a fix is in the works and we’re already looking forward to our next live event. Stay tuned!
Second-year Television & Video Production students Mariam Demian and Andrea Gilbert are producing a documentary in Cairo, Egypt on orphans and the Egyptian adoption system this February/March.
Thousands of children live in orphanages without ever leaving and even sometimes stay and work there because they have not received a good enough education to move ahead in life and adoption is not legal- therefore, there’s never even a chance of them having a real family. Your help will allow the organization to provide a clean, safe and nurturing environment for the kids, because for now, there is no other option.
Your support for this project would be so very appreciated! Partial proceeds will be donated to the Littlest Lamb Orphanage as they’ve so far been supportive in giving us interviews when we get there. Additional proceeds will go towards our project shedding light on this very important issue.
It’s a big project and it’s ambitious, but we’re working hard to make the most of this documentary because it’s a topic that needs attention!
Tickets are $10. Tickets will be available through Mariam and Andrea, as well as at the door between 7:30pm and 11pm.
Location:
Lamplighter Pub 210 Abbott St (Gastown)Vancouver, BC February 1, 2011 Time: 7:30pm Tickets: $10
BCIT Television & Video Production students will be producing a live webcast of this year’s First Lego League BC Provincial Championships, held at the BCIT Burnaby Campus on Saturday, January 15, 2011.
The FIRST LEGO League is a robotics program for 9 to 14 year olds, which is designed to get children excited about science and technology — and teach them valuable employment and life skills.
Tune in to our live stream URL to watch the action beginning at 9am PST!
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In cases of severe weather, we advise the use of appropriate footwear on campus, as travel routes and parking may be modified given the snow conditions.
Thank you,
Glen Magel
Director
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Saw this interesting sample posted on YouTube this morning – a software research project from the Ilmenau University of Technology (Germany) in the area of “Diminished Reality”.
The software takes a similar approach to the new “content aware fill” in Photoshop CS5 and applies it to video in real-time. It’s not flawless yet, but pretty cool!
Research project in the area of Diminished Reality by Jan Herling and Wolfgang Broll, Ilmenau University of Technology, Department of Virtual Worlds / Digital Games, 2010.
This week has been the first time we’ve taken our new first-year students out to work with their equipment around the BCIT Campus in a “production capacity”.
Students have been out practising the camera, audio, and composition skills they’ve learned over the last few weeks to produce short segments about some of the trades and technical students at BCIT. We’re looking for proper technical control of the camera (focus, aperture, white balance, audio levels), proper use of microphones (which mic to use, where to place it for optimum pickup), and how to compose shots to make it interesting for viewers.
After shooting, we head back to the broadcast centre to spend the afternoon in the edit suite with Final Cut Pro, putting all of the footage together so we can do some critiquing in class and learn about what worked and what didn’t.
A fairly busy day, but great hands-on experience!
