Video coordination

Video gives UVic an exciting opportunity to share its distinctive characteristics and increase its connection with our primary audiences. UVic Communications + Marketing has a central role in video strategy and production on campus, through the Video Co-ordinator, who guides and champions campus wide video production. 

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High-impact videos

Strategic, high production value videos which highlight our research strengths, dynamic learning and/or our extraordinary academic environment tell the UVic story. These videos can be factual or persuasive. They are produced by contractors in partnership with the involved units.

Barkley Sound Field School - University of Victoria
This archaeology field school was conducted with the support of the UVic Department of Anthropology in cooperation with the Tseshaht First Nation, Huu-ay-aht First Nations, Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, and the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre. The field school is particularly grateful for the support of Denis St. Claire, Ian Sellers, Wanda Robinson, Stella Peters, and staff from Parks Canada, Tseshaht Beach Keepers, the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, and the Hakai Institute geospatial team. In summer 2016, Anthropology professor Iain McKechnie instructed a six-week archaeological field school. Twelve UVic students dug at an old First Nations village and camped nearby. Students worked with First Nations and other experts to learn about human history. For more on this past year’s course please visit: http://bit.ly/2ewxSDl or https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/coastalfieldarch/ http://bit.ly/2fM9wHt For more on the Hakai Institute drone footage shown in this video visit http://bit.ly/2fpM9z3
Top scholar spent teen years on street, now calls UVic home
UVic alumnus Ryan Tonkin, now a Vanier Scholar, has always considered UVic his second home—especially when he didn't have one. After earning his BA and squeezing in an MA at UVic in only 16 months before heading to Harvard Law School, he could’ve pursued his doctoral studies anywhere and instead, returns here in September as the first student in the UVic Department of Philosophy’s new PhD program. Read more about Ryan: https://www.uvic.ca/ring/news/2017+vanier-scholar-ryan-tonkin+ring UVic's YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/uvic

See more videos from the Strategic Videos playlist on YouTube.

Social media snippets

Informative videos, 30-60 seconds in length, with overlaid text is a recent trend in video—particularly for social media like Facebook and Twitter. Since audio is muted about 70 per cent of the time videos are viewed on Facebook, overlaid text is a way of delivering your message in spite of this restriction. These videos can be shot and edited with a smartphone, making them easy and quick to produce.

UVic visual arts prof commemorates Tom Thomson
On the 100th anniversary of iconic Canadian painter Tom Thomson’s death in Algonquin Park, intermedia artist Paul Walde will swim the length of Canoe Lake on July 8 — accompanied by a synchronized swim squad, canoe flotilla and brass band — followed by one minute of silence recorded from the bottom of the lake. Walde, chair of the University of Victoria’s Department of Visual Arts, intends to reframe the early 20th-century artist’s legacy and enduring images of Canada in a gallery installation. http://finearts.uvic.ca/visualarts UVic's YouTube channel http://youtube.com/uvic

See more videos from the Social Media Snippets playlist on YouTube.

Smart phone videos

Technology has made great strides in the past few years, replacing video cameras and computers in video production. Shoot slow motion and timelapsed clips; edit and share your video right in your phone without touching a computer.

See more videos from the Smart Phone Videos playlist on YouTube.