April Club Night

There were six Edit Exercise films entered by members of the Surrey Border Movie Makers. Short clips of various footage had been supplied, and members had an opportunity of creating their own version of a film which was to be no longer than 3mins.

The first film shown was by Cameron Gilroy, titled ‘Dry January’ it depicted a person trying to overcome the difficulty of abstaining from drinking alcohol.  The second film ’2025 Contrasts’ by Paul Ashworth took a look at current affairs and the contrasting effects between them.

Philip Morley’s film was shown next, titled ‘Mick’s New Year Disaster’ it shared a neighbours New Year party which involved too much drinking.

Cameron Gilroy entered a second film called ‘The Miracle of Flight’, a flying dog was the star of this comedy film. Marcus Henning’s film entry of the SBMM Edit Exercise was a spooky film about The Bleak House with dark goings on as the old year was dying followed by the lightening up as the New Year approached. 

The sixth film called ‘The Sands of Time’ by Philip Morley was a film based on New Years overindulgence and was cleverly narrated via a poem written by Philip.

This event proved to be a good challenge for members to create their own version of films from the same given footage.

See also Edit  Challenge Results for links to videos.

After the coffee break the evening continued with the following films from Peter Frost, ’SBMM at the BBC’ which was a ‘making of film’ based on the filming which took place in the BBC Radio Station for the club film ‘Insomnia’,

This was followed by a look at ‘The Buzz in the Boardroom’ and how it was made after a re-edit.

The final film of Peters was ‘The Wizard-Momento Films’ an amusing look into the world of an adult having a frustrating game of Pinball.

Gordon Sutton took part in the live video filming of a band which took place at the March club meeting, Gordon was one of the numerous camera operators for the music video and showed his ‘behind the scenes’ film called ‘Filming of Bullseye Promo Video’, this was of great interest to those members who could not be present on the night the actual filming took place.

The final film of the evening was ‘Moving Day’ an amusing animation film by Dave Skertchly.

Kathy Butcher (PR)