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Sets from the television series Lost Girl will soon find their way to the Laurier Brantford campus.
The sets -- which are two rooms from the show --- were donated to the school by Toronto-based Quantum Entanglement Entertainment Inc., a newly-formed company creating television, video games and film.
The sets, when fully assembled, take up more than 10,000 square feet of space.
"The Laurier Brantford campus is the ideal location for these set pieces," said Paul Rapovski, COO of Quantum. "Not only will they help preserve the key sets of one of the most successful cult TV series, but they will help students gain hands-on experience working on authentic sets in the rapidly-growing creative and games centre within the Brantford region."
Laurier is awaiting provincial government approval of a new Game Design and Development program, which would be offered in partnership with Conestoga College beginning in September.
Kathryn Carter, associate dean at Laurier Brantford, said the campus hopes to offer industry opportunities to students in the Games program in film, television, and game design.
"We hope it will help educate students about the craftsmanship of these sets," said Rapovski, who is an executive producer of Lost Girl. "We hope it will generate some interest in the industry."
Lost Girl is a Canadian supernatural drama that premiered on Showcase in September 2010.
It follows the life of a bisexual succubus named Bo as she learns to control her supernatural abilities, help those in need, and discover the truth about her origins.
The show is in its sixth and final season. Production wrapped up in October.
The sets, facsimiles of a room in a house and a bar, are being stored in a university facility in Waterloo where they will stay until September, said Kathryn Carter, associate dean at Laurier Brantford.
"We currently don't have a space to resurrect the sets, but we have a few ideas in mind," she said.
Carter connected with another of Quantum's founders, Denis Dyack, when helping create the Game Design and Development program, which led to the donation of the sets.
"The sets will be a tremendous asset to faculty and students at the campus," said Bruce Arai, dean of the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences. "Exploring things like narrative, performance, structure and motivation in a person using the sets will add greatly to students' abilities to build better games during their degree."
Rapovski said sets from television shows and movies are usually dismantled and discarded because saving them is painstaking and time consuming.
Sets from the television series Lost Girl will soon find their way to the Laurier Brantford campus.
The sets -- which are two rooms from the show --- were donated to the school by Toronto-based Quantum Entanglement Entertainment Inc., a newly-formed company creating television, video games and film.
The sets, when fully assembled, take up more than 10,000 square feet of space.
"The Laurier Brantford campus is the ideal location for these set pieces," said Paul Rapovski, COO of Quantum. "Not only will they help preserve the key sets of one of the most successful cult TV series, but they will help students gain hands-on experience working on authentic sets in the rapidly-growing creative and games centre within the Brantford region."
Laurier is awaiting provincial government approval of a new Game Design and Development program, which would be offered in partnership with Conestoga College beginning in September.
Kathryn Carter, associate dean at Laurier Brantford, said the campus hopes to offer industry opportunities to students in the Games program in film, television, and game design.
"We hope it will help educate students about the craftsmanship of these sets," said Rapovski, who is an executive producer of Lost Girl. "We hope it will generate some interest in the industry."
Lost Girl is a Canadian supernatural drama that premiered on Showcase in September 2010.
It follows the life of a bisexual succubus named Bo as she learns to control her supernatural abilities, help those in need, and discover the truth about her origins.
The show is in its sixth and final season. Production wrapped up in October.
The sets, facsimiles of a room in a house and a bar, are being stored in a university facility in Waterloo where they will stay until September, said Kathryn Carter, associate dean at Laurier Brantford.
"We currently don't have a space to resurrect the sets, but we have a few ideas in mind," she said.
Carter connected with another of Quantum's founders, Denis Dyack, when helping create the Game Design and Development program, which led to the donation of the sets.
"The sets will be a tremendous asset to faculty and students at the campus," said Bruce Arai, dean of the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences. "Exploring things like narrative, performance, structure and motivation in a person using the sets will add greatly to students' abilities to build better games during their degree."
Rapovski said sets from television shows and movies are usually dismantled and discarded because saving them is painstaking and time consuming.
