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Several organisers have pleaded for some form of ideas bank for club programmes.
I've begun listing a few garnered from newsletters, magazines and websites
... but Ted Wisedale of Bolton suggests getting info from the best source:
you.
Send a brief email along these lines to
webmaster@theiac.org.uk:
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Filming Local History
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A local historian gave us a talk supported by archive film on events which
had occurred in between the war years. Films included the construction of
an extension to the Town Hall in the 1930's involving over 850 men showing
many forgotten crafts.
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The archive film fascinated members and raised awareness of other groups
within the community with whom we could work. Groups moving to new locations
or perhaps closing down.
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Contact for more info: someone@someaddress
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from Manx Video Camera Club: two short movies shot on the same visit
to a local marina: one "as shot", the other "as edited with titles, music
and narration." An interesting lesson in what can be done.
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from Jersey Camcorder Club: Wally Rowe prepared a ten point breakdown
of a simple scenario - woman in office feels hungry, pops out and buys a
sandwich, then eats it. This was published in the club magazine with the
challenge: "Which of these possible shots do you think are really needed
in order to tell the story?" The answers will form the basis of a workshop
on story construction.
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Frome Cine & Video Club's livewire, Phil Marshman, was recently
interviewed on local radio. How about an evening of interview practice covering
both how to record and shoot an interview and how to prepare for one
so that you get your message across.
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Stoke Cine & Video Society: holds an annual bring-and-buy garden
party at the home of its President where a chunk of the proceeds goes to
the club ... they call it FUNDZIN!
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How about a practice wedding video session with some members acting
as bride, groom, vicar, parents etc? FAR better to learn it in the
club that ruin the record of someone's special day.
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Various clubs invite those of their members who have attended a national
or international festival to give a report on the event, showing any
video or stills they took there and - ideally - some of the winning movies.
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Mac Movies: determined to make themselves a force to reckoned with
and get maximum feedback in the shortest time made lots of movies and entered
almost every competition they could. Bert McReady admits the standards
were not of the highest but the experience was invaluable.
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How about an exercise where members have to find as many different types
of location as they can within a two mile radius of the clubroom ...
a park might double for open country, a bleak office block for an old Soviet
city scene, a crumbling alleyway for Dickensian London, a futuristic advertising
agency office as a science-fiction set ... use brief shots to indicate how
the setting could be used ...?
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Staines Cine & Video Society: ran a 10 to 4 project where
two members put together ten minutes of unrelated video shots which were
copied and passed out. members had to edit them over a couple of weeks
to make four-minute movies.
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Michael Slowe - celebrated amateur movie maker - is willing to put a reel
of his work onto mini-DV or even VHS for a club evening. He may also
agree to talk about his work and take part in a question-and-answer session.
He is based in the North Thames area. His films include Blades
& Boaters, Ski Break, Ski Lift, Zoo, Perfect Pitch, Bronze Age and
Pelicans of Guana.
Send ideas to
webmaster@theiac.org.uk
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