| HIGLIGHTS OF THE SEASON SO FAR | |||
| We have had several premieres already this year - Simon Woolf gave us a preview of his latest film shot during the summer; meanwhileTrevor, Bob and Eileen showed us the films made at Community Focus | |||
| WHAT IS FCS CURRENTLY FILMING? | |||
| Simon Woolf has completed shooting on his new production 'Ten Minutes tops" - see production stills - coming soon |
Eileen and Trevor have been filming the Dancing workshop also at Community Focus. Peter and Bob have been filming the Drumming Workshop at Community Focus | ||
| Our film of the East Finchley Festival on June 24th was shown at Community Focus later that following week. | |||
INTERVIEWING |
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Community Focus facilities were used to the full on the last evening of the year (July 6th) as Peter Kidman and Trevor Williams gave an illustrated demonstration on how to set up for an interview. Both the audio and video aspects were covered. Combining a classic three light setup with two cameras and a mixer enabled members to see some of the difficulties in getting just the right balance of light to make both interviewer and interviewer look good. Photo - Eileen Kenning |
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| Eileen Kenning is our club chairman for 2008-9 |
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NEWS OF MEMBERS Our members pop up everywhere |
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| 12th Annual Big Fun Walk 25 March for the North London Hospice. This event was covered by FCS member Joe Spalter with his new Sony HDV camera. The resulting video is now showing on the new web based TV channel called ITV Local which allows anyone to upload material and have it shown. You can see it at http://www.itvlocal.com/london/londonlife/index.html - go to the Barnet link; sharp eyed members will spot FCS member Trevor Williams and his wife Ann getting in on the act. Joe kindly put FCS up on the site as the originators. | |||
| Hal Jeayes came third in the recent Annual Competition with his 'drama with a twist' called Time to Kill. We asked Hal to describe some of the problems of film-making with a very small crew. He kindly wrote SO YOU WANT TO MAKE A MOVIE? for us. Read it here. | |||
| EXTERNAL COMPETITIONS We have received details of a Daily Telegraph Short Film Challenge. This how they describe it: ' All you have to do is make a 3 minute short film, which you think embodies the concept of ‘Kinetic'. And to judge your filmic talents we've compiled a cast of leading figures from the world of film….Linda Gough, Estelle Overs, Alastair Good , Daisy Gill, Nicolas Roeg and John Ward will all be giving their professional opinions on the winning film. Plus all films will go to the public vote. £5000 will go to the winner of the public vote, £2000 for 2nd place and £1000 for 3rd place. £5000 will also be awarded to the critic's choice winner and their film will be screened in cinemas across London . So, for the chance to win thousands of pounds and get recognition from some of the key players in the UK film industry, just visit www.telegraph.co.uk/fordfilmchallenge' |
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DRAMA AT THE TRIANGLE Tuesday 18th April we provided all three judges for the Semi-final of the Triangle, Fritz Cohen, Peter Kidman and Mike Slowe plus Shayan Bilgi assembled at St. Albans to sit in judgment over Hemel, Luton and St. Albans slugging it out to go on to the final. It was a very mixed bunch of videos varying from the highest quality in the Documentary section to what was generally agreed to be a rather lower level in the set theme area. Thank goodness it has been scrapped seemed to be our judges general view. The drama came in the set theme round when both Mike and Peter independently concluded that the St. Albans entry, which was probabaly the best of the the three, was not on the subject and thus would lose points. There were hurried consultations, muttered explanations and some logic twisting but the decision was kept. Our two dissenting judges looked somewhat worried as the scores came through and as they wondered whether this decision would actually change the result with potentially difficult consequences. In the end Hemel won and Mr Triangle (Ron Jones) assured us that even if we had judged the St. Albans entry to be on the subject of Wrong Number it would not have changed the result. So now you know - being a Judge is no picnic but they let us live - at least this time... |
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS Our Club outing to Portsmouth will be on September 15th and Norman can provide full details about booking. |
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COMPETITION NEWS See the latest Annual Competition news |
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ANOTHER CLEAN JOKE |
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| A man walks into a fish and chip shop with a fish under his arm: "Do you have any fishcakes?" he asks the woman frying fish. "Yes, of course." the woman says. "Great." says the man, nodding at the fish under his arm. "It's his birthday." |
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LOCAL FINCHLEY NEWS Local cinema the Phoenix in East Finchley has installed a new HD projector. Club member Ian Morris reports: |
Can't be bothered to carry a tripod New Speakers We described the requirement (ie largish hall audience 15 to 30 people) to Harrow Audio who promised to take them back if they do not meet our needs. We tested them out and decided to keep them- so Joe can have his speakers back Steadicam On Friday April 27th Bob High demonstated the Merlin Steadicam; all who saw this were impressed with how neat and effective it was - but maybe tricky to master. If you missed this or just want to know more see this link. The professional show for higher end video equipment is called NABs and is held in Las Vegas in April each year. The hottest news from the latest NABs is from Sony. Basically they are going to introduce a tapeless series of HD cameras and the cheapest, being introduced in late 2007, will be under £4000. The spec is just amazing and details are here and here. I spotted very useful looking piece of kit: the ElipZ 10k battery from Anton Bauer. On March 23rd Peter Kidman and Bob High gave the latest camcorder technology update. These are the links to some of the various sources used. |
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| FCS FORUM | |||
| A VIDEO POEM We three pixels of Orient are;
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Refrain O camera of wonder, collecting light, © Peter Kidman with apologies to John H. Hopkins, Jr. |
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