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Unica, Poznan, Poland - Alan's perspective
A couple of weeks ago, Jackie and I took a flight to Poland, for the annual UNICA Festival.. It took place in the ancient city of Poznan,...
Gerry
Sep 19, 20243 min read
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Droning on
John Neal writes ... I can usually produce a ten minute vlog in a day. I indeed like to have a variety of shots and include the drone...
Gerry
Sep 19, 20243 min read
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News from Terry
Terry writes... “On Saturday, June 8th, I finished my last fiction film ‘The Errand Girl’, which has been shown at the club, and I...
Gerry
Sep 19, 20242 min read
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In memoriam
It's with great sadness at we recently learned of John Gibbs' passing. I first met him shortly after moving to the Midlands in 1987; I...
Gerry
Aug 15, 20241 min read
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All aboard!
Patrick has been on his travels ... We took the 08:01am Midland Pullman from Nuneaton to Minehead in Somerset last week. The Midland Blue...
Gerry
Jul 12, 20243 min read
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Errand Girl...
Terry's latest opus ... And so I have finished filming the third of the four scripts that I wrote during ‘lockdown.’ It is called “The...
Gerry
Jul 12, 20241 min read
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From the desk of Terry...
On Thursday, the 25th of April, I started the location filming of the third of the four screenplays that I took the opportunity of...
Gerry
May 9, 20241 min read
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BIAFF 2024 online and in the flesh...
On Tuesday April 9th, a BIAFF Zoom meeting was held, which attracted 40 or more viewers from the UK and beyond. Howard Smith chaired the...
Gerry
Apr 20, 20242 min read
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Desilu - 35mm reasons to love
Patrick writes ... It is by coincidence that I was recently researching into the television production company ‘DesiLu’, for material as...
Gerry
Jan 10, 20243 min read
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Which camera am I on?
Terry writes ... In 1971, the 24-year-old Steven Spielberg was directing the film ‘Duel’ which originally was to be made for TV, but when...
Gerry
Jan 10, 20242 min read
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Don't Drone on ...
A few words of warning - or assistance from Joe... “If you have a project planned using a drone, I thought it best to drop you the...
Gerry
May 25, 20232 min read
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"Attic of Secrets" - IAC review
“ Attic of Secrets”; Feed-back from IAC Open Night; 2.4.23 On Sunday, 2nd April, there was another IAC Open Night, in which people from...
Gerry
May 6, 20231 min read
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A end to moviemaking by proxy ...
Terry writes ... Well done Patrick for your excellent contribution to the Newspage on March 16th. Whilst ‘Zoom’ did a fantastic job in...
Gerry
May 6, 20232 min read
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CEMRIAC March Round-up
On Sunday March 26th, CEMRIAC hosted a Zoom Competition, which had in fact been open to all IAC members. Alan had entered the logging...
Gerry
May 6, 20231 min read
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Ceci n'est pas un gun
With apologies to Magritte... November 3rd Meeting report....There were 9 members - well, 8 plus one potential member - at the...
Gerry
Nov 16, 20223 min read
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The Magnificent Seven ...
Gerry recommends the following short films... Six Shooter (2004) Two Cars, One Night (2004) Marguerite (2019) The Neighbor’s Window...
Gerry
Aug 11, 20221 min read
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fin de siècle ...
Terry writes... I recently came across this photograph taken when Nuneaton Moviemakers members enjoyed a day out at Stratford-on-Avon. We...
Gerry
Aug 11, 20221 min read
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Film in a day - ish
Alan writes ... This year’s themes were “Secret” and “If in Doubt”. We chose the former. A Saturday morning Zoom session was arranged to...
Gerry
Jul 7, 20223 min read
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Art of Sound
Brian writes ... “Of special interest to me – your item re. adding soundtracks to films. I agree, of course, that a well-chosen musical...
Gerry
May 17, 20222 min read
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Mavic Mini
Previously the only way you could get aerial shots in any video was to use a helicopter or a very long pole. Now we have a dramatic...
Gerry
Feb 16, 20224 min read
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