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Gerry
May 20, 20211 min read
CEMRIAC round up - Spring Festival
Report on films in the Festival. Sunday 9th May saw the latest instalment in online film events with the CEMRIAC Spring Festival....
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Gerry
May 6, 20211 min read
BIAFF through Youtube
Some of the films on the BIAFF Saturday morning show. “Tea For Two”.... Created I’m sure during the pandemic...the shots of the chess...
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Gerry
May 6, 20212 min read
Why oh, why...
Mike Wyman FACI, is a distinguished IAC member and regular judge of IAC competition entries. Here is an interesting brief resume of what...
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Gerry
Apr 15, 20212 min read
A French take on the coronation ...
Alan tells us about the enterprising French ... We have come to think that fake news is something new, and certainly not what is expected...
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Gerry
Mar 17, 20211 min read
Sir David Attenborough and all who sail in her ...
The Antarctic research ship, Sir David Attenborough began her sea trials on 21 October 2020 off the coast of Anglesey. She is scheduled...
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Gerry
Mar 17, 20211 min read
Down to Earth...
A few years ago, Geoff Payne wrote a story which was made into the film ‘Perpetuity’ by club members. A friend of Terry’s, Dawn O’Shea,...
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Gerry
Mar 17, 20212 min read
A Special Relationship ...
“A Special Relationship”, a film made by members of Hayward’s Heath Movie Makers, was shown at our last Zoom meeting, but it seemed to...
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Gerry
Feb 22, 20213 min read
Kindness saves lives ...
Angie writes ... We're all nice people at Nuneaton Moviemakers and we don't take kindly to unpleasant comments, but a training project...
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Gerry
Feb 22, 20213 min read
Hold my tea, Aardman...
Patrick writes ... STAND ASIDE Aardman Animations! - or it could have been, if the stars had been in my favour, when I was trying to...
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Gerry
Feb 3, 20212 min read
Flash of Genius
Two YouTube videos I’ve watched recently really gave me a mental boost...or a “Cheer Up” as John calls it. Both of them being of ‘Flash...
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Gerry
Feb 3, 20213 min read
The freedom of DaVinci (resolved)
I asked if anyone knew anything about the editing software, Da Vinci Resolve...Patrick did and he sent in this article about the free...
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Gerry
Jan 19, 20213 min read
Nipkow discs and other animals ...
Alan writes ... As both creators and watchers of video / TV productions, we should all be grateful to the man who started it all....
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Gerry
Jan 8, 20212 min read
Filming from the other side of Offa's Dyke (Ffilmio o ochr arall Clawdd Offa)
Rob and Tricia write ... So here we are back in level 4 since Christmas Eve, all hotels, pubs, restaurants and "non-essential" outlets...
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Gerry
Jan 6, 20212 min read
2020 Vision - Annual Competition
The annual movie competition was held online this year (for obvious reasons) on December 17th. Geof Caudwell of Derby Moviemakers was the...
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Gerry
Jan 6, 20212 min read
By George, I think she's got it
30 years ago, Merlin and I made a short film at Nuneaton library where an event, the “George Eliot Victorian Festival” was taking place....
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Gerry
Dec 17, 20204 min read
Body in a Box - An Evening with Richard Miller
There was lots of positive feedback for our guest speaker Richard last week, here are a few of the collected thoughts. If you missed it...
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Gerry
Dec 17, 20201 min read
Terry writes ...
Well! What a strange year it’s been! People have been trying to pursue this hobby of ours in the best way that they can under some very...
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Gerry
Dec 17, 20201 min read
1917, one shot films, and composition ...
Several excellent short videos on YouTube detail rules we really should follow when making our films. One in particular, entitled. “6...
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Gerry
Dec 17, 20203 min read
Go, sit upon the lofty hill ...
“Go, sit upon the lofty hill, And turn your eyes around, Where waving woods and waters wild Do hymn an autumn sound. The summer sun is...
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Gerry
Nov 24, 20201 min read
Are you looking at me?
Terry asks ... “WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT WHEN YOU ARE WATCHING A MOVIE? Peggy Robertson was Alfred Hitchcock’s assistant in 1949 when he...
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