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North Thames Front Page Coming Soon Sunday May 11th 2008 at 2:30pm. Hosted as usual by Westcliff Film and Video Club at Wyburns School, Nevern Road, Rayleigh, Essex. SS6 7PE. Judges are Colin Jones FACI, Rod Smith and Philip Beasley. MILTON KEYNES ROUNDABOUT - IAC AGM and MERMAID COMPETITION 23rd - 26th October 2008
At Jurys Inn, Midsummer Boulevard, Milton Keynes. Tel: 01908 843700.
Harrow Cine and Video Society's AUTUMN MOVIE SHOW Wednesday 29th October2008 At Pinner Village Hall, Chapel Lane, Pinner. Doors open 7:30 pm for 8:00 pm start.
NTR MOVIE FESTIVAL and AGM Sunday 23rd November 2008 At Quality Hotel, Roehyde Way, Hatfield, Herts. Doors open 10:00 am for 10:30 am start. Reports
There was a short break in the film watching for the NTR AGM during which, Brenda Granshaw was elected as Chairman of the Region in succession to Christine Collins whose 2 year term had come to a successful conclusion. In addition, Eric Granshaw was elected as the Training Officer. He already has plans for 2 events. One on Saturday 8 March called Out of the Blue which will be presentations by Alan Atkinson about working with blue screen and other special effects, and David Newman about making films in difficult situations (up mountains). The other event being planned is the inclusion of a technical forum at the IAC AGM weekend to be held in Milton Keynes in October 2008. Competition Results
Other films entered in the competition and shown:
Competition Officer, Ken Mills OBE, LACI reports that 31 entries were received in the competition. 27 were shown at the NTR Movie Festival. The Projection Team were from Enfield Video Makers. The competition was judged in the North East Region IAC by (National Chairman) Linda Gough FACI, Michael Gough FACI (M), and Derek Mathieson FACI. Other films shown:
North Thames One Minute Competition:
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A GRAND DAY OUT IN PORTSMOUTH
- 15th September 2007
Coach booked, tickets printed, booking forms and acceptance letters ready and once everyone had sent their money in, it was all calm until about the beginning of September when I suddenly realised that there were only a couple of weeks before it all happened. The weather had been a bit twitchy up to then to say the least but there were plenty of indoor things to see and do if necessary but surprise, surprise, on the day the weather was lovely and apart from me waking up at about 3am the night before, certain that I had sent out more tickets than there were seats on the coach, (Jack Gill said his nightmare was that we had only booked a 25 seater for 50 people !), it was all set for a good day. As there were two pick-up points, Jack dealt with the Woodford one while I was at Potters Bar station with my clip board, (standard equipment if you are the organiser!), and lists of passengers, all arriving on time. One good thing if you are ‘in charge’ is that not only do you get to sit at the front of the coach with the best view out of the windows, but are allowed to get your hands on the microphone for making announcements instead of having to shout all along the aisle in a loud enough voice for those at the back to hear. Oh the power of it all !!! We arrived after a couple of small detours, due to the driver not having been there before and his instructions not too clear where to drop us off, right in the centre of where everything was that we wanted to see. After quickly munching our sandwiches, Christine and I went up the tower first. The lift took 28 seconds to travel 100 meters to the first viewing area, but no need to panic, it was all enclosed in glass. The views were absolutely fantastic and it was such a clear day that you could easily believe that it was true when you were told you could see into the distance for about 28 miles away. Christine was very brave and walked over the big glass panel in the floor, ( I said it was more important for ME to just film HER and not try it myself), then we walked up to the next floor for more of the same only higher.
There was so much going on that you would have needed more than a day to see it all but once we had seen, and been, to as much as possible, we wandered back to be near the meeting point for our return journey and ‘forced’ ourselves to have a delicious ice cream, ( there were several of our party doing the same I might add…) Thanks to everyone being on time, we left at 5pm and only took 2 hours to get back to Potters Bar station, then only about another 20 minutes or so to get back to Woodford. It was very quiet in the coach on the way back and looking round once, I think the only people awake were Christine, myself and the coach driver but to me, that meant everyone had had a good time with lots to see and do and the lovely weather had made it all the more enjoyable as we could wander about not having to worry about being cold or wet for a change. There were video and still cameras everywhere and I for one, look forward to seeing the films taken on the day which will no doubt be shown at club evenings and entered into competitions over the coming months. [Article courtesy of North Thames News.]
13th May
Every movie screened was a little gem in its own right and were well received by the appreciative audience. The wide range in the final point count bears no relation the difference in quality of the Movies offered by the three Clubs, but it was just a fact that the three judges were almost unanimous in the positioning of the movies shown in each section. The Event was well supported in spite of the inclement weather. I would estimate that over 60 people attended the Event. This Is the third year in succession that Westcliff has won the competition, that in itself is a record as they are the only club to have achieved that since the competition began way back in 1970. Scores
The totals being Harrow 12, Hemel Hempstead 16 and Westcliff 26. - Ron Jones FACI. (Triangle Competition Officer)
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The Final Round of the Triangle Competition held at Westcliff
on Sunday May 13th, was expertly presented and organised by Westcliff Film
& Video Club. All three clubs, Hemel Hempstead Movie Makers, Harrow
Cine & Video Society, and Westcliff Film & Video Club
putting on a programme that was well worthy of being in the Final round.
The three judges Phillip Beasley, David Wyatt and Norman Saville. in their
summation of the movies, heaped well deserved praise on the movie makers
concerned, This was praise indeed as both Phillip Beasley and David Wyatt
were themselves professional film makers, and I am sure that their comments
were approved by most of the audience.