Exeter University’s award-winning student film and television station We arrange talks and workshops for our members and are a NaSTA affiliated student station.
XTV is the Film and Television Station of The University of Exeter Students' Guild
Find us on our Guild Page:
-my.exeterguild.com/groups/JF37B/xtv
We produce anything from short films, documentaries, live broadcasts, animations, music videos, comedies, lifestyle shows and much more. XTV content is released simultaneously on our YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok accounts. So follow this pa
ge, as well as our other accounts to keep up-to-date with all of our releases and events. Our FIXR Page:
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We also happily accept commissions, be it anything from University societies to external parties. To make commission enquiries, email: [email protected]
Email [email protected] for any further information.
O Shadow of Ours يا ضُلَّنا is a film that documents emotional stories told by two women who fled the war in Sudan. The title is inspired by Yahyaa Fadlalla's poem, which conveys the notion of never losing hope, no matter how long or how much it takes.
O Shadow of Ours يا ضُلَّنا is a film that documents emotional stories told by two women who fled the war in Sudan. The title is inspired by Yahyaa Fadlalla'...
Time to announce another casting call!
This time we are looking for one male and one female of university age to act for an upcoming project 'A Film Only Lives in The Dark'
Using the audition script send your self-tapes to [email protected] or feel free to reach out with any questions!
Good luck!
Ever wanted to make your own short film? Not sure how you use our camera equipment, in order to do so?
Join us on Wednesday for a camera workshop to learn the basics of our camera equipment and put those skills into practice! 🎞
See you at 4:30 in Forum Seminar Room 9, where committee will be giving a workshop on our camera equipment and how to use them in filmmaking!🎥
How would YOU film this scene? You’ve got the basic info so how would you make it your own? What do you want the characters to wear? What would they be eating and drinking? Would they be eating or drinking? How would they sit? How would they speak? What shots would you want to include?
We would LOVE to hear your ideas and even see your ideas so don’t be afraid to film something or write something and send it our way!!
If you need a team to film with- message the whatsapp group chat!
World Building can be tough- especially when you’re deciding how you want your film to LOOK and FEEL
Here are some questions to ask yourself as you begin writing!!
WE NEED YOU!!! to come and help us film the annual Exeter does Strictly Come Dancing hosted by Ballroom&Latin soc!
If you’re interested in helping out make sure to message us! No experience needed- just passion and a desire to have a good time!!
Make sure you join us for a chill eve at the Impy this Friday!!
It’s a casual and chill way of meeting your fellow members, meeting committee, discussing film ideas, talking about film- talking about anything really.
There’s no pressure to stay for a long time- you can come for 10mins, come for an hour, use it as pres, use it for dinner- it’s up to you!
Hope to see you all there!!
Join us on the 23rd January at the Monkey Suit from 8pm until late dressed up as your favourite movie character! 🎬
Get your costumes ready and hang out with other XTV members to kick-off term 2!
We can't wait to see what film characters you are going to dress up as! Tickets are available on FIXR! See you then! 😊
Join us on Sunday 21st January for our first event of the term and for Rewelcome Week. 🎬
Come along to Revolution from 1pm to 4pm for a scriptwriting session, where you can develop your script ideas, meet fellow writers or gain knowledge on scriptwriting. Our committee will be there to answer any of your questions! 📝
Get your tickets on FIXR now, see you there!
Free Event
On Saturday June 24 between 11am and 3pm Refugee Week event at the Transit Shed located at Exeter Quay.
Some of the interviews I made with refugees and asylum seekers will be on display.
In this gripping and eye-opening interview, I bring you the powerful story of Mansoor, a courageous individual who embarked on an extraordinary journey to se...
Short moment from one of the interviews with Ukrainian refugee Sonya.
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Starfished:
Starfished tells the story of a woman who has had a damaging rumour spread about her throughout her place of work, we follow her attempts to trace it to source and confront the person responsible, and this rumour is strangely connected to a Starfish, somehow. It deals with workplace politics and internal fighting. It is a comedic take on the subject, greatly inspired by television shows such as The thick of it, Veep or Succession.
Hello,
I am looking for people to join me as part of my crew in the production of the short film ‘Starfished’.
I am looking for people who feel experienced enough in sound and lighting to be responsible for those areas of the production. The equipment will be borrowed from the University tech team.
The sound mixer will be responsible for picking up ambient sounds and dialogue. While lighting will be responsible in creating the correct tone that I am searching for- well lit.
You must be free on these dates.
Saturday 11th March: 11:00-13:00, 19:00-22:30.
Sunday 12th March: 11:00-13:00, 20:00-23:00
Monday 13th March: 12:00-15:00
Saturday 18th March: 09:30-11:30, 12:30-14:00, 21:00-22:00
Sunday 19th March: 12:00-14:00.
Thank you.
Please email me at [email protected]
Anastasia is a refugee from Ukraine and this is her story.
The story of Anastasia Kuznetsova from Horlivka, Donetsk region in Ukraine.
In the last 4 months I been working on this short documentary
Form and Foster is a 7 week programme focused on helping unemployed participants design, develop and sell the products they create during the course.
💀Thrills and Chills await at X-Media’s Halloween Party! 💀
Join us for a night of spooks as we celebrate All Hallows' Eve at The Monkey Suite.
Date: 27/10 🎃
Time: 9PM
Theme: Come ready to haunt the night with your society.
Xpression: Vampires 🧛♂️
XTV: Pirates 🏴☠️
Exeposé: Ghosts 👻
Razz: Witches and Wizards 🧙
Join us if you dare, Tickets at the link in our bio!
New release!
A new short film is out on our YouTube channel so go and have a watch!
If you’re keen to get on set this year we have lots of upcoming projects lined up for you to get involved with!
Or send us your own scripts to [email protected]!
Head to our YouTube: XTV Online and see some of our previous projects!
Want to get involved in a project this term? Get involved with our upcoming short film ‘Born of the Wind’!
Work as part of our camera crew, or help out with lighting and sound.
If you want to show off your acting talents then go for a speaking role or act as an extra!
Email [email protected] to get involved and have your name included in the credits!
Up next: we have a new workshop next Friday on lighting!
We’ll be using studio lighting to create light and dark in scenes and create atmosphere!
This is a members only workshop so be sure to buy your membership before next week! Free FIXR tickets are now live on our page.
Please bring a confirmation email or a screenshot of your XTV membership with you to Friday’s workshop. See you there!
Thanks to everyone who came along to today’s workshop!
We hope you learnt some new camera tricks and it was great to see so many future filmmakers!
*Stay tuned for next week’s workshop!*
Hey everyone! We have a camera workshop lined up for you next week so come and get stuck in!
George will be going through the basics of how to set up a camera for filming, different shot types and lots more! We’ll be bringing our camera equipment so everyone has a chance to get behind the lens!
This workshop is open to members and non-members - feel free to treat it as a taster session to see if you like the look of XTV!
Pop by the M&D room any time between 1:30 - 4:30 to have a go!
Hi all! If you want to get sporty this term then join our intramural netball team!
We have a joint X-media team a long with Razz, Éxepose and XPressionFM so come and get involved!
Sign up on our google doc using this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13m3F2qd8jk-NBGCJN38AmfSwOj0MwCf1Sz3EQkXXapA/mobilebasic
Hi all! Hope Week 1 is going well for everyone!
If you fancy getting sporty this term, join our X-Media intramural teams!
We’ve got football and netball lined up for this year so sign up and get involved!
Swipe to learn more, intramural starts Sunday 9th October!
https://youtu.be/bIsHqdzvmn4
Here is an example of what we did last year at XTV.
Exeter Connect - connecting charities in Exete.
As BFI 2022 is just around the corner, we're re-posting some of the most memorable reviews from BFI 2021, just to give you a taste of what this incredible annual festival has to offer!
The French Dispatch:
The film opens with an introduction to the variety of medium it employs; rustic animation, print culture and the classic two-dimensional, quasi-theatrical cinematography that distinguishes Wes Anderson from other directors. This heterogenous and varied terrain lays the perfect background on which to frame the fragmented narratives. Individual and seemingly unrelated stories from the Newspaper, ‘French Dispatch’ rub shoulders in a confused and discordant mosaic. However, each story echoes a universal irony, an appreciation for beauty and taste alongside a pathos for the end of an era in France marked by the death of a young and optimistic revolutionary, and the death of the director of the paper himself.
The film cleverly manipulates the periodical. Taking the flat, daguerreotype articles that one can imagine giving only a cursory glance over an idle tea and transforming them into a format that demands the consumer’s attention- cinema. The narratives may be incongruous, like the very articles wedged together within the pages of the periodical -economy, art and cuisine- but that incongruity is perhaps the films’ purpose. A closed and tidy narrative is unnecessary, what Wes Anderson seeks to achieve is something more fundamental, to capture momentary and tragic snapshots of the human experience in a rapidly disintegrating hierarchy.
By Lizzie Blackledge
King Richard:
The difficulty it seems with biographical films is the immense pressure to remain close to the truth yet distant enough that the narrative does not fail to honour sufficiently somebody’s reality. Raw and sensitive but not mawkish; relatable but not generic. King Richard manages to balance such complexities with grace and style. Portraying the story of Venus and Serena Williams’ rise to fame at the hands of their determined and insistent father, the film celebrates the love of a father towards his daughters and his unwavering desire to see them achieve but remain happy and fulfilled whilst doing so. It is a more sympathetic depiction of a character often publicly depicted as an ‘overbearing bully’ (Ide). Although the film doesn’t avoid the controversial aspects of his personality, it never fails to connect these whole heartedly with the love he has for his family and his desire to protect and nurture his children to the best of his ability.
Mothering Sunday:
Mothering Sunday is a lyrical spectacle transporting viewers back to the year of 1924 through costume, dialogue and nostalgia. The plot follows protagonist Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young) and her romantic relationship with Paul Niven (Josh O’Connor). The film combines flashback techniques with a nonlinear plot structure to create a layered narrative like that of a memoir.
Young is depicted in youthful naivety and her curiosity and inquisitiveness carries endearingly through the screen. The depth of Jane’s character and her unspoken emotions are conveyed effortlessly to viewers and character relationships seem to unfold before us as the film progresses.
The lighting and colouring of Mothering Sunday becomes a character of its own with rainbows and refracted light dancing delicately through frames. The soft, warm wash lighting of the scenes in summer add a sense of poetic magic to the film creating a beautiful spectacle.
The film’s use of rich colours combined with understated acting and an engaging plot create a film that is both poetic and moving.
I am Alex, a mature student/filmmaker and head of training at XTV. This summer I had the chance to work with an amazing family from Ukraine, and I want to share the 2 short films I made.
If anybody is interested in more details about the camera, lighting, or location I used, please contact me.
https://youtu.be/ZIlfzcVf-sM
https://youtu.be/F6vnrsH1k24
Petrachkova Family- The journey from war to peace.From Odesa to Devon.
EUniverCities student ambassador
The EUniverCities network will be holding a meeting in Exeter on 7-9 June 2022. Student representatives of our network partners (15 cities across Europe) will be attending this meeting and will be engaging in student-focused workshops and activities. One of the aims is for students to collaborate on a short film (on a defined topic related to arts and culture) as part of the programme.
We are looking for students to represent Exeter during this meeting. The student ambassadors will attend some of the meeting sessions, participate in discussions with students from European universities, and help support the students’ filmmaking activities. We are especially keen to work with students who have:
- A demonstrable interest in arts and culture
- The ability to work in a group with students of different nationalities
- Some experience in filming and editing video material
You must also be available for the duration of the meeting activities (to take place on 8 and 9 June; you would also be invited to a welcome dinner on 7 June). There will be one or two online meetings before the event (to take place late May). There may also be an opportunity to work on editing the film after the event.
This role is offered as a research volunteer post. We will be offering a payment of £100 plus expenses for attending the event itself, with a further £100 offered for assistance with editing after the event.
To apply, please send a brief expression of interest by email to Katherine Shingler, EUniverCities Network Coordinator: [email protected]
Follow the XTV members’ group 2021-2022 for info more relevant to this upcoming year!
- EGM Results -
Listed below are the results for our second round of elections for the committee 2021/22. Congratulations to everyone!
Head of Factual: Sebastian Bopp
Head of News: Christiana Bingley
Head of Training: Alexandru Dragan
Well done to everyone!
🎉COMMITTEE ELECTION RESULTS🎉
The results are in! Introducing the new committee for 2021/22...
Station Managers: George Seymour and Lizzie Blackledge
Heads of Creative: Mae Elliott and Will Mead
Head of Publicity: Sophie Brown
Congratulations to the newly elected committee members! We're sure you'll do a fantastic job and we hope the next year will run a little bit smoother. We will be reopening elections at some point in the next few weeks, so if you ran this time and weren't able to secure a position, there'll be more opportunities coming up. More information to come so keep an eye out!
Lockdown 3000 may be upon us but the film love affair and content doesn’t stop ✋
Our Term 2 (digital) memberships are up and available on the guild website!🎊💻🤗
>> https://www.exeterguild.org/societies/xtv/
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XTV is the Film and Television Station of the University of Exeter, founded all the way back in 1992! We produce short films, documentaries, live broadcasts, music videos, comedy sketches and more. We provide equipment and training to our members, as well as talks from industry professionals and commission opportunities.
Our content is released simultaneously on our YouTube channel and here on Facebook, so follow this page to stay up-to-date with all of our releases and events.
We are open to commission requests, be it from university societies and events or external parties. Please email [email protected] for more information.
XTV is a NaSTA affiliated student station. Website: www.xtvonline.co.uk YouTube: youtube.com/xtvonline Email: [email protected] Commission Enquiries: [email protected]
