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2008-2009 NEWSLETTER19/11/2008 David discussed interview techniques and showed some examples. Two teams formed to plan next week's filming. The meeting closed after a feature on Terence Young of the Bond movies involving lots of interviews with relevant people. 12/11/2008 A disappointing turnout to watch the two summer project entries. Some summary stills and a photo gallery are available. Geoff managed technical problems well in the absence of a knowledgable projectionist. Phil related his trophy experience at Guernsey and then showed a film about the making of his Best Script trophy called Guernsey Coppersmith. Some of the 1-min films were reshown with improved sound - I want to go Home being particularly relevant on remembrance day. Tony showed his edited puppet film from the filming practical. The DVD player would not play a +R disc, so the film from the other practical group will be shown at another meeting. 05/11/2008 Our guest speaker couldn't attend so David stepped in with the corporate video presentation he had planned for an earlier meeting. He showed examples of how computer software could be made interesting with films made by Oracle Corporation and also a film about webplay - a schools interactive theatre program in USA and London. Roger then showed some American made low budget films in which the makers obviously had fun making them. 29/10/2008 Neil was sad to announce the death of Brian Hodgson. Geoff gave news of Guernsey - Phil awarded a Guernsey Lily, and one of his actors was awarded Best Actor. His film also awarded a Gold by UNICA and the IAC awarded/made him a Fellow. Congratulations Phil. There were 10 very good entries for the 1-minute competition. Laurie and Geoff were Stan Olman judges and nominated two films. Summary stills are available. Mark showed his Matera film again and members discussed aspects in detail. 22/10/2008 Several members attended Alan Lott's funeral on Monday. Members were grateful to Mark for stepping in at short notice when David was in Paris. Mark showed his latest documentary Matera using his cine projector. He wanted feedback but members felt they needed to see the film again after seeing his questionaire which may happen next meeting. Neil showed Tony's Family Outing film and invited criticisms, and then showed a much reduced version he had edited with Tony redoing the audio. The merits of the two versions were discussed. 19/10/2008 Six members enjoyed seeing
the films as Reading successfully regained the Gateway trophy at the
triangular competition hosted by Staines. The results were:
The picture below shows Don with the trophy. 15/10/2008 Practical filming appeared to go well, with some useful lessons being learned. The results will be edited and shown at a future meeting. David filmed members making the films - watch this space for his results! 08/10/2008 David handled the first practical evening by showing examples of ' 'How To' films with a Blue Peter presenter making a Thunderbirds Island clip, a cooking clip and some relevant U-tube clips including an origami swan. Two groups were formed to plan a subject to be filmed next week and David plans to film the groups making their films! Before the meeting started, Don proposed a vote of thanks to Brian for all his behind the scenes work (like printing the programme booklet) even though he is not on the committee this year. 01/10/2008 It was announced with sadness that our founder member Alan Lott died recently.It was also announced that we had been invited to film the local pantomime 'Jack and the Beanstalk' in Jan09. Several members volunteered. Neil led the first competition proceedings which disappointingly only involved two entries, but encouraging that it was won by a young new member. Summary stills are available. Laurie and Geoff were the Stan Olman gurus, but decided neither entry merited a nomination. The evening was filled with a nostalgic showing of selected films from the 2005 showreel. 17/09/2008 There were some new young faces among the regular members at the opening night. Socialising over drink and nibbles was followed by a film buff quiz controlled by Pete and Roger. Don provided some prizes for the winning group. The meeting closed with a showing of the final version of the O2O 10K run. Thanks to Brian for manning the projector in the absence of Phil. 06/09/2008 Four RFVM members braved the heavy rain to visit the new Surrey Border club premises in Farnum on Friday to show an interesting collection of 14 films from our latest showreel and some films made in less recent years. The showing was well received even though some of the films had been seen before by some of their members. 20/08/2008 At the recent committee meeting, the programme was finalised as much as possible. As Surrey Borders showed us some of their films last season, we will be showing them our showreel at one of their meetings which is before our season starts. Any member is welcome to attend at Farnham. |
