Purple Valley Films

The Williams Show is PVF’s latest project, a weekly program produced at Willinet, Williamstown’s local cable access station. The show allows Williams students, faculty, and staff to be on a regular program and participate in any way they like. This can include, but is not limited to: singing, dancing, acting, debates, opinion pieces, chats, musical performances, educational pieces, and fencing. Williams students are also invited to submit their own videos for the show. Additional segments will replicate the “man on the street” journalist stylings of the Video Freex, and the critical, skeptical reporting of Paper Tiger Television.

http://www.youtube.com/TheWilliamsShow

Please email ak1@williams.edu if you are interested in helping film or if you would like to be on the show.

Photographs by Gabriel Diaz.

Do not be surprised this weekend (Nov 8 and 9) if you see a large group of people with cameras, lights, SteadiCam, dollies and jibs/cranes—because we are making a music video! Co-produced by Bulldog Productions (Yale) and Purple Valley Films (Williams), “Heart Twice Broken” is directed by award-winning actor and screenwriter Alexander Dominitz, along with several other crew members from the Yale film school and Purple Valley Films.

The production gives Williams students a rare chance to work with professional equipment from Boston and a director of photography from Chicago. Few college films ever achieve this level of production quality and scale (we have over 40 extras). In addition, Williams actors will get a chance to perform on-camera along with the band. On most film sets, crew members only get to work with one department; on the “Heart Twice Broken” set, however, students will sample the camera, wardrobe, and grip/electric departments. This production brings to our students a unique film-making experience as it is in the industry.

The video will be shot at various locations including Dodd, Thompson, Goodrich and Currier. You’re more than welcome to visit us and talk to the cast and crew members. For more information about the shooting schedule, contact Danny Y. Huang (yh1) or Andrew Dominitz (ard1).