News Archive > October, 2007

At Morecambe Bay Movie Makers' weekly meeting, club members split into three working groups for a practical movie making evening. Each group was set a task to produce a series of interviews with grumpy old men using lights, mics and cameras. The subjects under discussion were politics, shopping, eating habits, holidays, transport and mobile phones.

Each group will now go away and edit the sections with suitable inserts from their library footage or shoot new material as required. This will be collated into a lighthearted programme of members' views of the world today.

At Morecambe Bay Movie Makers' weekly meeting, club member Peter Parker gave a presentation on promotional movies. He illustrated his talk with examples of programmes he had made for a variety of companies, organisations and voluntary groups. He explained how the use of the right music, speed of editing, colour or monochrome images could change the impact of the finished product, suitable for the target audience.

The meeting then discussed ideas for the club's future promotional movie featuring Regent Park Studio. The second part of the evening involved watching examples and planning for next week's practical night, when club members will split into groups to produce grumpy old men and ladies movies.

At Morecambe Bay Movie Makers' weekly meeting, members welcomed guest speaker Richard Curry, the Treasurer and Vice Chairman of the North West Region, Film and Video Institute. Richard began his presentation by describing the work of the institute in promoting the amateur movie makers and the services they provide including insurance cover, copyright arrangements, competitions at all levels, technical advice and a network for movie makers to communicate. His presentation was illustrated with a DVD produced to commemorate the Institute's 75th anniversary this year. The second part of the evening was spent watching a selection of movies from the Institute's collection of award winning films, videos and DVDs.

During the meeting, it was announced that club member Chris Abram had donated a new award. The award is to be presented each year for services to the club during the proceeding twelve months. The trophy is to be known as the "The Fred Dibden Club Member of the Year Trophy". Fred Dibden is the current Chairman of Morecambe Bay Movie Makers and has served in this position and on the committee for many years.

New projects from Peter Parker, Ken Russell, Dave Weatherley and Dave Simpson have been added to the Members' Projects area.

At Morecambe Bay Movie Makers' weekly meeting, members welcomed guest speaker Martin Boardman, the MD of "In The Frame" Productions from Chorley. Martin is a freelance cameraman, working for the major television companies as well as making commissioned programmes.

Martin talked about how he became interested in video production and explained how his previous work as a teacher enabled him to make videos for children and involve them in media education. His great passion is football, in particular the Morecambe side that he has filmed for many years, producing memorabilia DVDs and material for broadcast.

Martin also showed examples of his work and brought in his cameras for members to inspect and try out.

Ron Wood's light-hearted documentary about the making of replica Crown Jewels for a club film has now been added to the Members' Projects page.

For the new season, we have a new entry in the Hall of Fame. As you will remember, the club is running an unofficial contest for the best shot of a club member wearing their club shirt or fleece. If you think you can beat Dave or Graeme's efforts, Contact Us.

At Morecambe Bay Movie Makers' weekly meeting, members were taken on a tour of the club's web site by Mark Easton, its designer. Mark explained, using his laptop and a projector, how the site had been built up from the original ideas to its present form. The site has members' movies available for viewing, articles by members describing their projects, the year's programme plus links to manufacturers and other groups.

The second part of the meeting was a demonstration by Graham Easton on how to create your own site for uploading movies to the Internet for a worldwide audience.

Also this week, Geoff Ducker's Up the A591... project page has now been updated with video.