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The ACTV Film Festival is an annual event created by students studying Media at Ayrshire College in a joint project for their Film & Broadcasting and Essential Skills classes. The department and this project has received financial backing from the Ayrshire College Foundation.
The event showcases student films made throughout the year. Students take on roles which include Hosting & Scripting, Marketing & Promotion, Video Poster Design, Special Guest Relations, Editing & Technical, Voting Platform Execution and Team of Directors. This presents opportunities for students to develop technical and media specific skills as well as meta-skills and essential skills in Communication, ICT and Working with Others. Due to COVID restrictions, the Film Festival this year will take place online from the comfort of your own home! Everyone is invited to watch and participate in our online event which takes place on the ACTV Film Festival 2021 Teams Page on Friday 11th June at 2pm. The footage will also be uploaded to our ACTV Youtube Channel. The festival will showcase the amazing talent of student filmmakers at Ayrshire College. Student Films will be pitted against each other in a battle for the coveted Best Film Awards. Winners will be chosen by the audience who get the chance to vote for their favourite films in an online poll. Special guests from the film and media industries support our event each year. This year’s special guest is BAFTA Winning filmmaker, Hannah Currie. The festival is organised for fun, meanwhile it also tests the student's teamwork, production, and organisational skills. The event brings the students together as they work in a team to plan and host this event. NQ student Taia McPherson said, “I think it’s a good way for the students to show off what they’ve done over the course of the year, especially with the tough year we’ve all had.” NQ student, Lewis Millar, believes, “It’s a brilliant opportunity to showcase our developing skills within the film industry and develop transferable skills like working in a team and overcoming challenges.” As stated in an article by Weforum, billions of students are affected by the pandemic with remote learning and no face-to-face teaching, however students at Ayrshire College have pushed through the challenges of working remotely. We hope you can join us to celebrate our achievements at 2pm on Friday 11th June.
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Legendary Ayrshire-born singer-songwriter Colin Hay is the stand-out name on Sun Turtle Records’ new 21-track compilation album, ‘Lockdown Sessions Vol 1’, released today (4 June).
The Ayrshire College record label’s latest project showcases the Ayrshire music community’s incredible spirit and determination shown throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. With musicians and bands still unable to fully rehearse, record and perform live, Sun Turtle Records decided to embrace the DIY ethos adopted by many artists by putting together the album ‘Lockdown Sessions Vol 1’, which provides a platform for artists who have remained hard at work during the pandemic. Each of the 21 tracks have been recorded at home, with the Men at Work lead singer Colin Hay agreeing to record an exclusive version of his solo hit ‘Next Year People’ for the album. All proceeds raised through sales of 'Lockdown Sessions Vol 1' will be split equally between the Ayrshire Hospice and Scottish Association for Mental Health. Sun Turtle Records’ A&R team reached out to Colin Hay and after negotiating with his lawyer and Sony Publishing to secure a free license, Colin was “onboard for his hometown and the charities”. Colin even took the time to send the students a special video message about the process of his recording. Getting Colin involved in the project is a major success for the Ayrshire College students and the Sun Turtle Records record label. The album is set for an exclusive digital release via the Sun Turtle Records Bandcamp on June 4th 2021 and features contributions from previous Sun Turtle Records artists JOG, Mannequin Mannequin as well as this year’s The Voice UK semi-finalist, Jeremy Levif, and a host of Ayrshire based artists. The full tracklist is:
As well as last month's charity single release for Ayrshire College #PassingPositivity campaign, 'Don't Forget Who You Are' by Jai McDowall, Sun Turtle Records has released two other pieces of music recently, KINGFISHER’s A/A single ‘Bon Voyage’ and Calypso Jet’s EP ‘Nineties’. KINGFISHER is an alternative indie three-piece band featuring two former HNC/D Sound Production students of Ayrshire College. Their drummer, a former student and classmate, sadly died in 2018 and the band have released ‘Bon Voyage’ in his memory, using a poem that they found he had wrote as the lyrics for one of the songs. Calypso Jet, also known as Blair Innes, is an electronic/dance/house music artist who was also a Sound Production student at Ayrshire College. His track ‘Love Me Better’ was recently BBC Radio Scotland's Track of the Week, with the music video arranged and edited by two Ayrshire College Access to HNC Music students, Kerri Alison and Nicole Kilpatrick. The Ayrshire College Foundation has provided funding for the Music & Sound Production department at Ayrshire College to help them realise these ambitions. |
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