Jan
10

Sparkies 2012

It’s back! Our annual awards show cel­e­brat­ing the achieve­ments of TVNM stu­dents through­out the 2011-12 aca­d­e­mic year. If you’re plan­ning to attend (and why wouldn’t you, really?), pen­cil in Wednes­day, March 21st from 6–9 pm. We’ve got a new venue, and pre-production is well under­way. Our solid-gold host once again is Eric Howard. Tick­ets will …

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Jan
05

HNY from TVNM

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It’s a new year, and we’re already back at work in the TVNM pro­gram. After a (hope­fully) rest­ful hol­i­day break, stu­dents return Jan. 9th to get back at ‘er.  With only 10 weeks until intern­ship, sec­ond– and  third-year stu­dents are in a race to the fin­ish, while first-year stu­dents have courses — new and returning …

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Dec
12

Loyalist TVNM in the News

Loy­al­ist is hit­ting the streets of Stir­ling in Jan­u­ary … and EMC is help­ing us spread the news! Check out this arti­cle for more details …

Sep
07

48-Hour Film Festival is underway!

Loy­al­ist TVNM kicked off its second-annual 48-Hour Film Fes­ti­val Wednes­day after­noon. A total of 24 teams have entered the race to com­plete a film before Fri­day after­noon. Two fac­ulty teams have also cho­sen to par­tic­i­pate — just for fun. The cri­te­ria this year is: Colour: Orange Object: Ladle Phrase: “Avoid it at all costs.” The completed …

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Aug
30

Back to Class: Tuesday, Sept. 6th

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Loy­al­ist TVNM stu­dents are head­ing back to class in Sep­tem­ber! If you’re one of the lucky few counted in this group, please note that classes start on Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 6, 2011 (NOT Wednes­day, as sug­gested in other cor­re­spon­dence from the Col­lege).     Year 1: 9:00 am. Media Stud­ies Ori­en­ta­tion, Loy­al­ist Gym­na­sium (you will be escorted …

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Jun
02

Eric’s Blog: Media Streaming to your TV

Apple-TV

    This is very cool stuff. I just entered the world of Apple TV. This is not an ad for Apple TV just a com­ment on stream­ing con­tent on your com­puter and the web to the big screen. There are lots of devices out there. I’m old school…ok I’m get­ting old too but that’s not …

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May
26

Another BEAC win!

Loy­al­ist stu­dents picked up another award from the Broad­cast Edu­ca­tors’ Asso­ci­a­tion of Canada. Darker Side of Gray, a styl­ized tele­vi­sion intro sequence pro­duced by third-year TVNM stu­dents, picked up the award for Best Com­mer­cial or Promo for 2011. Pro­ducer: Dil­lon Hod­gin Direc­tor: Ken Har­ri­gan Direc­tor of Pho­tog­ra­phy: Nick Lee Edi­tor: Adam Palkovits Con­grats to the stu­dents and …

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May
13

Eric’s Blog: Master Class in Imagery

Angelheart

In my last blog I talked about how the story is king. Well, what you do with that story as a direc­tor is extremely impor­tant as well. A lit­tle gem of a movie from the 80’s called Angel Heart, is like a text book of how to use imagery to aid the story telling process. You …

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May
09

Eric’s blog: The Story is King

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The story is King. I don’t care about all the spe­cial effects, 3D, fancy edit­ing, humon­gous sets, out­landish cos­tum­ing, or great high pro­file actors. If you don’t have a good story, you’ve got noth­ing. After recently watch­ing a TV series called The Black Donnelly’s it became very clear that my first state­ment is true. This series …

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May
05

Music Video wins BEAC Award

Third-year Loy­al­ist TVNM stu­dents have won the 2011 BEAC (Broad­cast Edu­ca­tors’ Asso­ci­a­tion of Canada) Music Video award. Stu­dents Paul Duck, Paul Ray­mond, Mitch Haigh and Ryan Hiuser won the pres­ti­gious award for pro­duc­ing their music video “Start­ing Again,” with the Ontario-based band Oh! The Scenery. The stu­dents spent two semes­ters in their final year cre­at­ing the …

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