FILMMAKING students from City College Brighton and Hove have been recognised with a special presentation for their work live streaming events for Brighton Dome.

The students’ hard work and skill has allowed hundreds of people to watch events at Brighton Dome venues in real time on the internet.

Since 2013, City College students have been gaining invaluable hands-on experience of working with state-of-the-art audio-visual equipment to enable live streaming in nearly 100 events across all the Brighton Dome venues, including a wide variety of high profile shows during Brighton Festival.

Thanks to a grant from the Arts Council, Brighton Dome and Brighton Festival regularly live streams events so they can be viewed on computers or smartphones. Brighton Festival live streams from the 50th Festival in May 2016 have reached almost 4,000 online viewers.

“We really wanted to celebrate the achievements of all the City College students who have worked with us on our live streams,” said Carole Britten, director of marketing at Brighton Dome and Brighton Festival. “This is such a valuable partnership to us - helping us to produce high quality digital content and reach out to new audiences.”

The high profile events students have live streamed include Tim Crouch and Spymonkey’s re-enacting of every onstage death from the works of William Shakespeare in The Complete Deaths.

The students used four cameras in different positions to film the events live, while a student acting as a vision mixer picked which shots viewers watching on the internet could see.

“It’s fascinating and exciting to do something industry-related and it involves so much more than just filming,” student Louis Parker said. “It covers things like broadcasting, vision-mixing, framing, getting on-the-fly shots and just using our initiative to cover events that we usually don’t know that much about beforehand.”

The 18-year old now wants go into television production or screen making.

“What makes working on the live streams such a fantastic learning experience is that we’re working on something so professional and we’re controlling it all ourselves,” said student Savanna Gladstone, 19. “More generally on the course, I love how we’re pushed to create our own material, given freedom to express our creativity and encouraged to achieve at the highest level.”

Jim Lee, City College Brighton and Hove tutor, said: “The work the students have done over the last four years has been amazing.

“They’ve not only worked in a manner you’d expect of professionals in this medium, but they’ve always tried to apply their own creativity to the filming and vision mixing of the shows.

“It’s no surprise that students who’ve worked on these events in the past have gone on to work professionally on live broadcasts in sports, politics and the arts as well as corporate events. Let’s hope that this exemplary partnership continues for many years to come.”