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:
- TAZ Comics
- Gracie Barra Ju Jitsu
- Big Pete’s Collectibles
- Steel Toad Brewing
- Bikes on the Drive
- Soft Peaks Ice Cream
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!
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!
The first PSA production this week is for the “Gwatermala” Run for H2O. We take easy access to clean drinking water for granted, and not everyone has the luxury of just turning on a tap inside their house…
You can see our full gallery of behind-the-scenes production photos on our Flickr Page as well!
Our next Television & Video Production group project produced by first-year students is for the Adoptive Families Association of BC.
Bright Idea Productions wrote a bit of a tear-jerker that show much children waiting to be adopted just want to be a part of what the rest of us take for granted.
We’re back in production next week with two more PSA projects, one for the “Gwatermala” Run for H2O, and one for Charity Intelligence Canada.
You can see our full gallery of behind-the-scenes production photos on our Flickr Page as well!
Our first-year Television & Video Production students have just started their first group projects this year, 30 second PSAs for local community and charity groups!
This Tuesday we were at the Kitsilano Community Center for a short production illustrating how people from every walk of life can come together to contribute in their community.
Be sure to check back often, as we will be shooting two PSAs every week for the next four weeks, taking a short break, then coming back to start production on 30 second client projects.
You can see our full gallery of behind-the-scenes production photos on our Flickr Page as well!
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.