This should have been a MMM League competition evening, but it - and virtually every other public gathering has been put on hold for Lord knows how long. I trust that you all will stay well at this difficult time.
Everyone who attended the CEMRIAC Seminar at Worcester on March 1st said it was one of the best of its kind there’d been. (You didn’t go? You don’t know what you missed). Jonathan Pegg and David Johns in the two morning sessions plied us with humour aplenty - Jon telling of his path from boxer to IAC Diamond-award winning
filmmaker, with “Making Friends As The World Ends,” while David transitioned from BBC reporter to canal Narrowboat dweller, earning a goodly crust by telling the world
via YouTube, of his waterways exploits. Then after lunch, it was the turn of Chad Higgins (also an ex BBC cameraman) to explain the intricacies of time-lapse and hyper-lapse filmmaking.
He travels the world with the huge amount of special equipment necessary to achieve
his wonderful video results. One of only a handful of people in the world earning a living from full-time timelapse, Chad has a wealth of experience from the frozen shores of the Arctic to the dry, hot and often dusty climates of Africa. Having shot
everything from commercials, factual, drama, corporates and reality, through to documentaries, film, natural history and science, his knowledge of the intricacies of
Timelapse Photography is invaluable.
For updates, you can follow him on Twitter, Facebook, Vimeo, Youtube, IMDB and Linkedin. Or go to Chadchud.co.uk and look at his 2018 Timelapse Showreel.
Final speaker of the day was Alan who gave us an insight, with the help of his films onscreen, into how the Blue-Screen can be used to put, an actor into the depths of an African jungle without him even moving out of Nuneaton! Here, in this clip from “Extinction Event”, the actor is actually standing in front of a Blue Screen - not a bank of computers!
On March 7th, Nuneaton MM staged its ‘Millennium Competition’ at the Mary Forryan
Centre in Hinckley. Just one of the clubs who’d entered, Doncaster, was unable to attend, though whether or not the current Coronavirus scare had any thing to do with their non-appearance isn’t known. Having said that, late entrants, WAVE, took total entries up to the original level of six films in both the main competition and the
‘Minute-Millennium’. There were approximately 30 people in attendance on the day from the various clubs. The result of the Millennium Trophy Competition:- 3rd, Nuneaton MM with ‘Home From Home’. 2nd, Lichfield MM with ‘Forgotten France’ and in 1st place, Leicester MM with ‘Man With A Van and a Spray Can’. The winning film can be seen here on YouTube.
The ‘Minute-Millennium’ result:- 3rd, Derby MM with ‘A Matter Of Some Gravity’. 2nd, Lichfield MM with ‘Confession’. In 1st place, Nuneaton MM with ‘Your Choice’. Well done to all contestants and to everyone who helped in any way whatsoever to achieve a smooth running event.
Photo: Chris Hall collecting on behalf of Tony Ward.
Terry has sent in the following newspaper item re the new James Bond film, ‘No Time To Die’ (the premier of which, as we’re all aware,
has been put off until November because of the Corona virus) He writes: “I thought this was interesting ....We’ve all heard of Steadycams, and of cameras attached to cars, planes,
helicopters, cranes or drones, but I’d never seen one attached to a motorbike before. This shot seen in the newspaper cutting shows a ‘Range Rover Defender’ stunt car doing a massive ‘jump’ in the new Bond movie, ‘No Time to Die. So, if there are any motor-bikers in the club, well, now is your chance to shine! Could we do this in the car park at Higham Lane School?? See here for the video about the Land Rover Defender and motorbike Steadicam.
With no meetings or events for me to report on for your Newspage, please try to make
an effort and contribute a few lines yourselves, an article, a photo or two, though please don’t just send a link to an article on the ‘net’....try to make something of it in your own words - put your own slant on things....no excuses...you’ve got plenty of time now!!
If I get enough from you, I’ll try to put a Newspage out more often than just once a
fortnight. Gerry.
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