Our team is in the Delta Hotel this weekend working away at the Secondary School model united nations that IRSAM puts together. Its a long weekend of interviews, green-screening, editing and tomfoolery.

Check out www.tvmtelevision.com on Monday for more information about the event and videos

Also, follow our USTREAM account to check out the closing ceremonies on Sunday!

Love, TVM

Want to get involved in TVMcGill? Intimidated by the amount of technical expertise you think you might need to get started? Start your semester off right by going to any and all workshops at this year’s Workshop Week, where we’ll give you all the skills you’ll need to plan shoots, film an event or scene and edit them to perfection. Take a look at our offerings:

*THESE WORKSHOPS ARE OPEN TO THE MONTREAL COMMUNITY AT LARGE AND ARE TOTALLY FREE!!!!!!*

M O N D A Y
Camera Basics with Adina (Arts Producer)
7PM in SSMU 403
Using our semi-professional HD cameras and new digital SLRs for filming.

Intro to Video Editing with Ellie/Molly (President/Chief Editor)
4PM in TVMcGill Office
Learn about the interface of our editing software, Final Cut Pro 7, and how to use the tools it offers to make a professional-looking piece.

T U E S D A Y
Production Management with Stacey (Executive Producer)
3PM in SSMU B30
Learn how to prepare for an interview, communicate with professional contacts and look professional on your shoot.

TVMcGill’s first General Meeting!
6PM in Lev Bukhman (2nd floor, SSMU building)
Come get an introduction to your producers, editors and administrators for the 2011-12 year. We’ll be showing you around our process, our website and pitching ideas for projects coming up over the next few weeks.

TVMCGILL LAUNCH PARTY @ GERT’S
PARTY PARTY PARTY WITH TVMCGILL
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=272689639426987
PARTY PARTY PARTY WITH TVMCGILL

W E D N E S D A Y

Video-Journalism and Ethics on Camera with Parker (News Producer)
5PM in SSMU 302
The video camera is a powerful and volatile tool for reporting and journalism. Be careful how you use it.

Camera Basics with Adina (Arts Producer)
8PM in SSMU 433A
Using our semi-professional HD cameras and new digital SLRs for filming.

T H U R S D A Y
Audio Recording Basics with Jon (Series Producer)
2:30PM in SSMU B30
Don’t fuck up the sound! Using boom mics, handheld mics, and wireless lapel mics on the set.

Advanced Editing with Ellie/ Molly (President/Chief Editor)
4PM in TVMcGill Office
Here we’ll take a look at using keyframes to animate titles, working with a green screen and editing sound. Bonus: quick introduction to After Effects and what it can do.

Sketch Comedy Troupe Callbacks! with Jon (Series Producer)
7:30 in B30
Join Jon’s sketch comedy troupe which will be producing comedy shorts throughout the semester. We’re looking for writers, performers and “big picture” people.

F R I D A Y
Lighting Basics with Dan (Features Producer)
4PM in SSMU B30
Cameras need a lot more light than we do to see. Make sure you know how to properly light a set in order to get the best looking footage for your video.

Thanks to everyone who supported TVMcGill in this referendum! We’re already looking forward to next year!

Are you interested in joining THE Student Television group at McGill?

TVMcGill is currently accepting applications for the upcoming 2011-2012 TVMcGill Exec.

Submit a one page letter of intent for the position you’re interested in as well as your CV to admin@tvmcgill.com before Friday April 1st.

Check out the TVMcGill facebook event for more details: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=150045985059923

Ready for your 15 minutes of fame?

FOKUS FILM FESTIVAL will be held Wednesday, March 23, 2011 @ 6 PM at Cinema Du Parc (3575, av. du Parc).

Tickets are $8 and are available from the TVMcGill office (across from Gerts in the SSMU building) or by emailing vpexternal@tvmcgill.com

For any further information, please contact vpexternal@tvmcgill.com

TVMcGill is currently running a referendum to renew our student levy. Visit tvmcgillreferendum.info for more information.

Voting starts Friday March 4th at 9:00a.m. Students can vote at OVS.SSMU.MCGILL.CA

Stuck in class and can’t make it out to the GA on Thursday? You can watch the SSMU General Assembly right here at TVMcGill.com on February 6th at 6PM

Back and ready for action after the winter break, the TVMcGill fam is looking to carry our excitement for everything film and television from 2010 into the New Year. Care to join us?

If you are interested in sharpening your production skills and keeping the McGill community informed and entertained, e-mail us at admin@tvmcgill.com or sign up for our newsletter at tvmcgill.com/listserv. You can also come visit us at our table during the SSMU Winter 2011 Activities Night, or feel free to swing by the office, B-29 in the SSMU building. Don’t let the people hunched over their editing suites scare you.

TVMcGill is now accepting applications for associate news, associate features and associate editing positions for the upcoming Winter 2011 semester. The application should include a short letter of intent stating who you are, why you are interested in the position and what you hope to bring to TVMcGill. Please email your applications to admin@tvmcgill.com. Deadline is November 30th.

Hi there,

Ever been in a short film? Ever wanted to act and be part of a collaborative team working on a creative project? Need some roles to beef up your portfolio?

TVMcGill is hosting a series of open auditions starting with one on November 20th from 1-4pm in Room 403 of the SSMU building (aka. the Brown building aka. the Shatner building).

Auditions will be held on a first come first serve basis and participants are asked to come prepared with a . Scenes from the script will be provided for participants upon arrival for a cold reading.

Casting is open to all sexes, ages and ethnicities.

Roles that are open to casting include:

1 male lead,

2-5 male supporting actors,

2 female supporting actors,

and many more needed for extra work!

For more information please email tvmcgillcasting@gmail.com

Hi TVMcGill world,

This week the Daily Publications Society (McGill Daily + le delit) are hosting their annual Student Journalism Week and they’ve tapped TVMcGill to help out. As you’re well aware, there is no journalism school at McGill and only one video production course is offered each year. This is where events like Student Journalism Week are super important/awesome. The Daily/Delit has teamed with Journalists for Human Rights, Media@McGill and CAPS to invite journalists, professors and experts so students can get an idea about the ins and outs of journalism.

TVMcGill is super excited to be apart of Student Journalism week again this year and will be hosting an Introduction to Final Cut Pro editing workshop Thursday, November 4th at 6pm in the TVMcGill office. This workshop will focus on final cut basics, but also effective journalistic editing (think intense fade to blacks, serif fonts, passionate instrumentals and shot-reverse-shot interviews). So please stop by and say hi and support Student Journalism Week.

More details can be found at www.mcgilldaily.com/journalismweek

Also if you have a moment check out http://media.mcgill.ca perhaps the awesomest research group on campus.

See you on Thursday!!!

- Ellie Marshall, Chief Editor

Our interview with OK GO last week was awesome! I had so much fun interviewing Tim and Damien (while also falling into the beauty that are Damien’s eyes). Check out some of these photos we got while at the shoot and the concert (photo credit Thea Fitz James). The guys made for a really fun interview, the two of them have amazing chemistry and I learned way more than I ever needed to know about Korean food, fragrances and anarchy.
Stay tuned for the interview and the excessive awkward laughter coming from me as I fell more and more in love with Damien (really, who couldn’t?)

Peace,

Bianca

ballers

confetti!!

our interview was better

filming the intro. my eyes are closed. good job Bianca

Be sure to check out TVMcGill’s live coverage of the SSMU General Assembly on Thursday October 21st starting from 6PM. Find out if Gerts has to turn down the volume, if the SSMU will abandon its policy regarding gender parity in speaking privileges and more!

Hello friends,

The “Empowering Girls and Women” objective of the conference continues to dominate the discussions. The idea that investing in women is also investing in social welfare is a popular one among speakers and commitment makers. Presenters also continue to drive home the importance of mobile infrastructure and internet access in developing areas as keys to economic development.

Arthur, Charly and I have all been talking about our growing disenchantment with the conference. Members are certainly raising important questions and promoting worthy causes, but there is clearly a bias toward—even an over-reliance on—technological, “magic bullet” solutions, rather than solutions that address the systemic causes of poverty and gender inequality. One of the most interesting aspects of the CGI commitments is their small-scale nature. Programs like the “Ring the Bell” campaign are great examples of this mentality. But the ideas coming out of the “headlining” conferences with business leaders and heads of state cling to a handful of buzzwords: micro-lending for women, social networking, leap-frogging, mobile access, internet-based employment, maternal health…and it’s frustrating that the discussion has become so unfocused.

It is also frustrating that a conference focused on “Empowering Girls and Women” hardly touches the other half of the problem, “Not Oppressing Girls and Women in the First Place.” In his “Meeting of the Minds” conference with CNBC, Clinton says: “The reason women and girls are important is that most of the people who never go to school in the world are girls, most of the people who are denied access to education beyond high school are girls…I did this partly because I think this is a really big long term economic issue for the United States. Any time you give up more than 50% of your human potential, you’re playing Russian roulette with your future, and there’s more than one bullet in the gun.” In the same address he says that women are, in many places, considered property, but somehow this issue of inequality is filed under “economic problems” rather than “human rights violations”? What do you think, is it important to address this issue from both sides or should there be a focus on constructive, market-based, and educational initiatives that aim to close the gender-gap?

Today I’ll leave you with this: At a press conference discussing connecting refugees with mobile technology, musician and former refugee Emmanuel Jal performs a spoken-word piece about his experiences as a child soldier in Sudan.

That’s all for now,
Meg

Hey all,

This morning marks the official beginning of the Clinton Global Initiative conference. Former president Bill Clinton moderated the opening session, accompanied by Melinda Gates, President of Finland Tarja Halonen, CEO of Procter & Gamble Bob McDonald and Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt. An ambitious range of issues is being addressed this week, from education in Haiti and the floods in Pakistan to women’s empowerment and market-based sustainable initiatives. Clinton featured several commitment makers during the opening session, including a group called Bell Bajao, which will be globalizing their campaign against domestic violence. It’s a great example of the kinds of small-scale innovations the conference promotes. You can watch some of their short videos and see for yourself.

The themes of change and hope give the conference a very feel-good atmosphere. For better or worse, there is very little critical dialogue about the causes of world poverty, the environmental crisis, and gender inequality—issues that CGI commitment makers are trying to tackle through their initiatives. CGI is all about tangible solutions and grassroots pragmatism.

Honorary guests at the opening session include the Presidents of Rwanda, Vietnam, Israel and more, including Charly’s personal idol, NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof. According to Clinton, 67 current and former heads of state are present at this year’s conference. We also spied Maggie Gyllenhaal in the crowd and stumbled upon Avril Lavigne’s tweet about attending the conference (Canada represent!).

This afternoon we attended the Education Keynote lunch with presenter Geoffrey Canada, Meg’s personal idol, the Plenary Session on empowering women with US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, and a special session on peace in the Middle East moderated by former president Clinton with participants Salam Fayyad, Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority, and Shimon Peres, President of the State of Israel. Stay tuned for our video coverage later this week, and remember: TVMcgill has a mandate to represent you at this conference, so if you have any questions or want us to know what issues matter to you, please let us know by sending an email to news@tvmcgill.com, and we’ll look for answers.

-Charly & Meg

Every so often TVMcGill has the opportunity to embark upon adventures outside of the McGill bubble, to explore, from your perspective, the world outside of Montreal and bring light to issues, concerns, and amazing events that are relevant to our fellow students.  In years past we have travelled to cities around Canada, such as the Tar Sands protests in Ottawa last year, as well as the United States, most recently for the 2008 presidential elections.

This year we have been lucky enough to be invited, through one of our alums, to attend the Clinton Global Initiative Conference in New York City.  From today, September 20th, until Thursday the 23rd we will be among world leaders as they discuss issues ranging from education reform to sustainable development, from Middle East peace talks to the future of micro-financing.  And we will be bringing this all to you through the channel we (and we hope you) know best: TVMcGill.com.  Stay tuned for pictures from the conference, interviews from world renowned and world famous individuals (including, hopefully, several Canadian politicians and celebrities in attendance), blog posts updating you on the going on, a possible live-stream, and general information from this event. A complete list of interviews and a schedule of talks we will attend will be posted soon; connect to us through Facebook and you may have an opportunity to have your question answered by a world leader in the field you’re interested in!

The nine hour drive down was tough.  As was the 7am wake-up call.  But Charly, Meg, and I are doing this all for you.  We hope you enjoy it as much as we will.

All the best,

Arthur Cormon

Technical Director, TVMcGill

We were so happy and excited to see everyone at activities night but we’re even more excited about our upcoming first meeting! It’s going to be on Tuesday September 21st at 530 in the Lev Bukhman room (2nd floor) of the SSMU building. We have lots of exciting things coming up and we can’t wait to share it with everyone!

Welcome back everyone! We’re so excited about this upcoming year as our TVMcGill family of producers and editors are all revving to go with this year of television and film production.

We’ve made some pretty snazzy upgrades to our production equipment in order to improve our production quality and accessibility. We have new cameras, new lights, new audio equipment and even a green screen! But of course we still have that same old love for everything film and television at McGill.

If you’re interested in joining our TVMcGill family and would like more information, email us at admin@tvmcgill.com, sign up for our newsletter at tvmcgill.com/listserv or come by our table at the SSMU Activities Night on September 14/15th. Hope to see you soon!

-The TVMcGill family

Interested in film or television media? Want to get involved with McGill’s very own student-run television station? Email us at admin@tvmcgill.com to join our team.