Videos
‘Making History’ Film Night April 2024
At the April 2024 meeting, two versions of the finished video were shown, together with a ‘behind the scene’ video.
Those videos show what can be achieved during a single unrehearsed 2 hour evening slot with a simple script, a host of extras, an assortment of video making equipment, and most importantly, a great deal of enthusiasm! Brian O’Connell, together with Colin Lewis, also created an informative ‘Making Of…’ video’.
Sarah’s War
Whilst not strictly a club film, it’s included here because of the support from several SBMM members.
It was club member Brian O’Connell who was the driving force behind this epic of a film. Brian originally wrote it as a stage play that was performed in locations around Guildford in 2015 and subsequently embarked upon the task of making it into a full-length feature film.
Using his own funding, Brian wrote, produced, directed and edited the film using professional actors and a young professional cinematographer.
Jim Reed
I have been editing video from the mid-1990’s using VHS with Hi-8 tapes, then moving onto Mini-DV, and in early 2000’s acquired my first PC based editing suite.
In 2016 I bought my first ‘modern’ camera, a 4k Sony AX-53, high speed with built in Gimbal. After seeing the club in a local newspaper I joined in July 2017.
I’ve selected these few videos as being representative of my work and interest.
Tim Stannard
I came to film making with no background in photography or particular interest in storytelling, but through the simple route of wanting to have a record of my newborn baby growing up.
Digital video was of a high enough quality and cheap enough in the mid 2000s for it to be worth me trying out and abandoning if a failure.
I have since become an Associate of the IAC (AACI)
Dave Skertchly
I have been making films since the age of 14, which is 56 years ago! I started with 8mm film and moved on to video in the 1990s. My films are generally made at a low cost; usually something around about around nothing!
They are based on things I am interested in. I don’t even try to ape the professionals so I class my films as “craft films” rather like “craft beer”.
I use very little equipment, just a low cost camcorder and some editing software on my laptop computer.
Peter Stratford
My interest in film making started in the late 1960s with a short lived stint using the school’s Bolex H16 film camera to record various school activities for posterity.
As the technology improved and prices dropped, I graduated to digital video and recorded my travels around the world for work and pleasure from the 1990s onwards. I joined the SBMM in 2017.
Gordon Sutton
My hobby in making films developed from my father who was an active member of Bournemouth and New Forest Film Makers.
I made my first Standard 8mm film in my twenties and many others since, using clockwork ciné cameras, in the intervening years. I made do with an auxiliary portable tape recorder for sound and avoided the progression to Super 8.
Gillian Gatland
I mostly film holidays, but I try to add information to make them of interest to a wider audience.
I like to take part even if in a small way when the club makes a film, and twice was the editor of a club production. Otherwise I usually do shot logging or clapperboard. Very occasionally I appear in front of the camera.