News Archive > February, 2008

A reminder to members for festivals where we are competing :

• Mersey 10
• Preston Movie Makers
• Saturday 15th March 2008 7.30pm
• Tickets £5 incl. refreshments
• Tickets available from Hon Sec (Before 3rd March if possible to help Preston with catering arrangements)

• Burnley Film Festival
• Burnley Camcorder Group
• Saturday 5th April 2008
• Tickets available from Hon Sec. £8.50 before 22nd March, £9.50 after this date
• Starts 2.30pm until approx 9.00pm . Speaker, competition and refreshments

• Inter Club
• Southport cine and video society
• Thursday 10th April 2008. 7.45pm
• Free admission

At Morecambe Bay Movie Makers' weekly meeting, the Cumbria Trophy competition was held. The rules confine members to use only a video camera and VCR to make a movie no longer than 3 minutes 20 seconds, this being the duration of an old Super 8mm cine film cassette.

Taking first place was Graham Easton, with a movie entitled "No Film Show Tonight," using the actual written text of the programme followed by an explanation of what equipment was needed, before running out of time.

Runner-up was Dave Weatherley, with a movie drama called "A Letter From The Front," where a young woman reads a letter from her husband killed in action in the First World War, and recounts her memories of their time together.

In third position was Brian Melmore, with a documentary movie called "Catch A Swarm," which tells the story of how a wild swarm of bees were captured and transferred to a hive for the harvesting of honey.

The three club judges were Stan Sharpe, Frank Wilson and Graeme Isherwood who gave a critique of all the entries before announcing their awards.

At Morecambe Bay Movie Makers' weekly meeting, members welcomed Alan Clark from Formatt Filters. Alan gave a résumé of his work in the film and video industry, mainly in the world of lighting effects and camera filters. He explained how his company in Wales made the glass filters and lighting gels for export across the world where ever movies and television programmes are made. His presentation included a DVD, which illustrated the various effects that the filters create on a scene within a movie. He distributed copies of the DVD ,samples of the gels and a catalogue for each member to keep.

Morecambe Bay Movie Makers welcomed members of Lancaster Photographic Society to their weekly meeting for a 50/50 show. The hosts showed the club movie "Victory Weekend" which recorded the 60th anniversary events in Morecambe, during 2005, to commemorate the end of the Second World War.

In the second half, the guests gave three presentations. In the first, a series of slides showed how to produce a fire with a flint and dry straw, accompanied with a real live demonstration. The second was an A/V production of the wild life that can be found in local gardens. The final section was an A/V programme showing four different aspect of life in Vancouver. During the interval tea with jam and cream scones were served.

Morecambe Bay Movie Makers were this week entertained by club member Geoff Ducker, with details of how he shoots and edits High Definition video, using his own equipment along with a 50" plasma screen and Blu-Ray player loaned by Rob Smith of C.K.E. Shipley.

The second half of the evening featured videos by club member Derek Fox. These included subjects of farming in Britain and China, ballooning over the Forest of Bowland, jet boating in New Zealand and an evening with Daniel O'Donnell.

Morecambe Bay Movie Makers held their Warriner Trophy competition on 28th January. The theme this year was "Light" and was judged by club members. The winner was Graeme Isherwood, with an animation entitled "Let There Be Light." Second place was Dave Weatherley, with a potholing video, emphasising the word "light" wherever possible, and third place went to Brian Melmore with a part video, part animation concerning a faulty fluorescent tube light.