The annual movie competition was held online this year (for obvious reasons) on December 17th.
Geof Caudwell of Derby Moviemakers was the judge for the evening -
Eleven films were entered, and the films watched on Zoom. (As usual a draw was made as to their running order). The results, given out at the end of the evening, were as follows.....The Edwards Cameras' Trophy for best Movie - Alan Atkinson for “Set Fair”. The Michael Batchelor Trophy for Best use of Sound - Gerry Bishop for “Watch the Birdie”. Highly Commended Certificate (judge's discretion) - Patrick Woodcock for “Birmingham 2020”. No other placings were asked for or given.
In normal circumstances, on the evening of the club dinner, we’re informed of the winner of the script-writing section our Annual Movie Competition as part of the prize-giving awards. But this year of course, no trophies or certificates will be handed out, and there’ll be no dinner, no speeches, no quiz and no games. Tonight being the first meeting of the New Year would traditionally have been the Bring & Buy Sale, so we wouldn’t have learned who’d won the script competition tonight anyway. Everything's going to be so very different this year again. Roll on normality!
Message from John....Just an update about the annual script competition. This was not held at the same time as the Movie Competition this year. We have received some suggestions for a slight change. Most years, members do not see or hear the entries to the script competition - just the results. This year it was proposed that we held it on a separate evening with members given the opportunity of both "reading" their scripts and having them circulated to members for them to read themselves. We did have an evening when a script was read but this was not the formal competition. A date has still to be arranged for this and members not able to access zoom can still enter their scripts in written form - (this email will be sent to them in print). Members will not be asked to just "read" their scripts, this seldom works well. Film treatments are often not in a form for ease of reading or comprehension. Members should give a synopsis, or describe their script in a way they are comfortable with and have practised. The written script should also be available for all to read themselves. It has been suggested that they be judged by a vote from members - what do you think? - John
