Switching gears slightly with the first-year Television & Video Production students, we’ve moved from training on live multi-camera production to single-camera electronic field production (EFP). Check out our Gallery for more photos!
In order to develop these skills, our first-year faculty members, John Mills, David Griffiths, and Ashif Jivraj decided to model a small production for our students and shoot a 30 second commercial for Coast Mountain Bus Company (part of Translink).
This production process is not just about heading out to a location with a crew and a camera, but included everything from site surveys, to obtaining the necessary insurance and contracts to put this production together. Make no mistake, this is a lot of work, and our students will be doing the same on their own productions!
The process introduced both sets of first-year students to the skills and on-set coordination necessary to work in the film and television industry. While we’re not a film school (and we would argue that we are better), many of the same skill-sets apply no matter if you’re working with digital technology or film stock.
In this case, we are shooting on Panasonic HPX-300 P2 HD cameras. The first day of shooting was in AVC-Intra 100 at 1080-24PN, and the second day in DVCProHD 720-24PN, just for the sake of trying something different.
The students will be producing their own commercials in HD in the coming weeks, check back for more updates and the final products that are uploaded to Vimeo and YouTube!
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!
In preparation for severe weather in the coming weeks, BCIT has communication methods in place to keep students and staff informed and updated.
In the event of severe weather conditions that may affect BCIT campuses, bcit.ca will be updated by 6am on weekday mornings and information revised as the situation changes. If there are any campus closures, an alert will also be sent to staff and students registered to receive BCIT Alert messages.
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As an alternative to checking the website, you may also call the BCIT switchboard at 604.434.5734 for campus closure updates.
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
Safety, Security, and Emergency Management
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.
