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,...

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...

Terry writes... “On Saturday, June 8th, I finished my last fiction film ‘The Errand Girl’, which has been shown at the club, and I...

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...

Patrick has been on his travels ... We took the 08:01am Midland Pullman from Nuneaton to Minehead in Somerset last week. The Midland Blue...

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...

On Thursday, the 25th of April, I started the location filming of the third of the four screenplays that I took the opportunity of...

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...

Patrick writes ... It is by coincidence that I was recently researching into the television production company ‘DesiLu’, for material as...

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...

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...

“ 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...

Terry writes ... Well done Patrick for your excellent contribution to the Newspage on March 16th. Whilst ‘Zoom’ did a fantastic job in...

On Sunday March 26th, CEMRIAC hosted a Zoom Competition, which had in fact been open to all IAC members. Alan had entered the logging...

With apologies to Magritte... November 3rd Meeting report....There were 9 members - well, 8 plus one potential member - at the...

Gerry recommends the following short films... Six Shooter (2004) Two Cars, One Night (2004) Marguerite (2019) The Neighbor’s Window...

Terry writes... I recently came across this photograph taken when Nuneaton Moviemakers members enjoyed a day out at Stratford-on-Avon. We...

Alan writes ... This year’s themes were “Secret” and “If in Doubt”. We chose the former. A Saturday morning Zoom session was arranged to...

Brian writes ... “Of special interest to me – your item re. adding soundtracks to films. I agree, of course, that a well-chosen musical...

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...

At the last club meeting on February 3rd - another Zoom affair, we were pleased to welcome a Nuneaton resident, John Longcroft Neal, to...

Once more Terry gives us an insight into the fascinating world of film production by some of the greatest producers and directors.......

Some of Merlin’s work using the iClone 7 program was shown at last week’s Zoom meeting. If you want to give the program a try, it can be...

Terry writes ... I was browsing through one of the two biographies that I have of the great film director, David Lean, (1908-1999). The...

Alan writes ... I know that it’s a regular grouse of mine, and that my declining hearing is part of the problem, but it’s good to see...

Let’s start off this New Year - as ever - with another offering from Terry....he writes... “I found Alan 's article "How Things Have...

Stop Frame Animation...Gordon explains.... “The last N.M. meeting at Higham Lane School was the second type of meeting for a l—o—n—g...

Alan writes ... “How Things Have Changed” In the last Newspage, Gerry mentioned that one of our earlier drama films, “Something in the...

Terry comments on club scripts ... I have been asked to write a brief resume of the first face-to-face meeting that was held at Higham...

Nigel writes ... The first live NM meeting for 19 months was for me a great success - the social side of the club was back again. Even...

I fielded an idea recently, to certain members of Nuneaton Moviemakers. As usual, it proved to be as effective as lighting a damp squib....

Gordon writes .. “A few months ago I looked on the internet for people who write stories ‘for fun’ in the hope that they might have...

If you enjoyed the selection of films from the various SoCo 2021 competitions we saw at the club Zoom meeting on 16th Sept 2021, then the...

Once again, Terry puts on his Cinema goer’s hat, and waves his usherette’s torch to put three Germans in the spotlight......He writes...

On the 6th July, Alan, Michael and I went to Brandon to do some more filming for the logging cart video. The cart has now been rebuilt...

On July 1st, Patrick gave a first rate presentation to remotely assembled members for yet another club Zoom meeting. He began by relating...

Rob Phillips sends in the low down on his 8mm film digital scanner which he showed last NMM Zoom meeting. As Geoff Payne mentioned on a...

Terry writes: “I read, with a great deal of interest, Patrick Woodcock 's contribution to issue 32 of the Newspage, and not only do I...

As I write this it is Sunday 16th May, tomorrow will be step three out of lockdown, which is just 60 weeks after the start of the first...

Another Cinema-related piece from Terry...The World War II film “Flags of Our Fathers”(2006), was directed by Clint Eastwood, and told...

Report on films in the Festival. Sunday 9th May saw the latest instalment in online film events with the CEMRIAC Spring Festival....

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...

Mike Wyman FACI, is a distinguished IAC member and regular judge of IAC competition entries. Here is an interesting brief resume of what...

Alan tells us about the enterprising French ... We have come to think that fake news is something new, and certainly not what is expected...

The Antarctic research ship, Sir David Attenborough began her sea trials on 21 October 2020 off the coast of Anglesey. She is scheduled...

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,...

“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...

Angie writes ... We're all nice people at Nuneaton Moviemakers and we don't take kindly to unpleasant comments, but a training project...

Patrick writes ... STAND ASIDE Aardman Animations! - or it could have been, if the stars had been in my favour, when I was trying to...

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...