Hart House, an iconic gathering place at the University of Toronto, is somewhere students, staff, faculty and community members come to slow down, make things with their hands, and engage with the analogue parts of life that a university education doesn’t always make room for. Hart House in Frame reflects that ethos directly, complementing short-form video storytelling with hand processed photographs developed in the Hart House darkroom. The result is content that doesn’t just talk about what Hart House is. It looks like it.
This session goes under the hood of the production system behind the series: the workflow, tools, and handoff points that keep quality consistent across episodes, and the editorial decisions that happen inside the edit suite. How do you take 30 minutes of interview footage and find the one minute story inside it? What are the benefits of establishing a labour-intensive ongoing video series in a busy production environment. How do you integrate analogue photographs into a polished digital workflow? For communicators without a production background, these questions can feel like a black box. This session opens it up.
Nicholas Carter
Multimedia Communications Officer, Hart House, University of Toronto
Nick Carter is a Multimedia Communications Officer at Hart House, University of Toronto, where he produces video and multimedia content for both internal and external audiences. He brings to the role a background that spans freelance videography, communications work across sectors including provincial healthcare and private industry, and independent narrative filmmaking as a director and editor.