News Archive > April, 2008

At Morecambe Bay Movie Makers' weekly meeting, the end of season Annual Open Competition was held, with eighteen entries judged by Phil Janvier, the North West Representative of the Institute of Videographers. The overall winner and first in the documentary class was Chris Abram, with a movie of his hometown, Carnforth, and the surrounding countryside. Chris' DVD was called "Bittern Country - My Home".

First place in the Open Class went to Dave Weatherley, for a drama called "Letter From The Front", where a widow reads her late husband's last letter sent from the battlefields of World War 1.

The Holiday Class winner was Graeme Isherwood, with a DVD called "Queenstown", showing part of a holiday in New Zealand, including cruising the lakes on a steamboat.

The award for best soundtrack also went to Graeme Isherwood, for his animation movie entitled "Let There Be Light", which follows the unsuccessful attempts of a character to repair an electric light fitting, only to find that, when he strikes a match, he is standing next to a store of high explosives.

Notice to Members : In order to enable us to get through all 16 entries for next week's Annual Open competition, the evening will start at the earlier time of 7pm.

At Morecambe Bay Movie Makers' weekly meeting, the first half was given over to discussing the summer projects and ideas for next year's programme. The second half of the evening was devoted to watching the finished movies from the editing challenge, where members split into three groups to create three different movies from the same random clips.

In addition, a section of Chris Abram's movie "Bittern Country" was shown, which featured the work of club members assisting with filming at Leighton Hall.

During the meeting, it was announced that the club's entry in the Interclub competition held in Southport had taken third place. The entry had been made by Peter Parker and was a promotional movie for the St. Michael's Sporting Club, Walmer Bridge, near Preston.

At Morecambe Bay Movie Makers' weekly meeting, members reformed into the three editing groups they had left just before Easter. The object of the evening was to complete the editing on laptop computers of 7 unrelated clips, with a running time of 50 minutes, into a movie of no longer than 10 minutes.

At the end of the evening, all three movies were shown. One was complete but the other two required fine-tuning ready for next week. The project proved how the same material can be reworked to give different stories and is only limited by imagination when the technology is equal.

At Morecambe Bay Movie Makers' weekly meeting, members enjoyed the second "Showcase Raffle" event of the season. There were numerous contributions of 5-minute movies and clips. Members made the majority but club members' associates made others. There were also a number of favourite clips from feature films. Each contributor to the evening received a free raffle ticket, which was drawn at the end to give prizes to the lucky winners.