BA Hons Showcase 2020

The 4th Year Final Project is a chance for our Hons year BA students to display both their development and production skills. Students choose whether to submit an individual project or collaborate on several. Both scripted and factual formats are welcomed. This showreel demonstrates their resilience and resourcefulness in completing those projects in what has been a turbulent academic year. We are immensely proud of our students in creating such excellent work and invite you to join us in watching this montage of clips from both their final projects and some factual entertainment studio based shows produced earlier this year. The reel begins with a beautifully shot observational doc about Bute based hairdresser Wesley Snips by Jamie Murray. This contrasts with the Gaelic language drama Bròn written by John Nicholson about resolving a rift between two brothers which was filmed by Gregor Stirling and cast utilising City of Glasgow College performance students. Connor Grant has created a series of sketches as ads for Mercedes Benz which he ended up making with the help of his flatmates during lockdown when the planned shoots had to be cancelled. Prize Draw is the BA’s revised version of Pictionary as a studio game show, presented by BBC The Social’s own Anesu Gurure. The Cure is a very contemporary thriller about the life of a bicycle courier during a global pandemic followed by Puppies, Pensioners and Pandemics, a factual doc about charity Give a Dog a Bone during this current global pandemic. Traumatic is a short horror film set in an atmospheric country house written and directed by Max Cunyngham-Brown. Shared Lives is a moving insight into family life for carers by David Love. Stand Up Stand Off is a comedy competition filmed at City of Glasgow’s college own studio and presented on front of a live audience by Stuart Mitchell. Climate Change Climax is Zainaib Akhtar’s exploration of climate change activism in Scotland. The final doc is Queens of Drag by Emma Gilchrist which follows three femme presenting drag performers in Scotland as they prove that drag is about more than just ‘a man in a dress’.