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NERIAC SPRING CONVENTIONand AGM 2012
JANUARY
NERIAC SPRING CONVENTIONand AGM 2012
24th March in ABERFORDNorth Yorkshire
from 2pm.£7 including buffet
The Speaker is MIKE SHAW
AGM will follow afternoon’s programme
further selection of filmsEvent closes about 8pm.
GRANGE OVER SANDS forTHE LAKELAND EXPERIENCE
The IAC AGM Weekend hosted byNORTH WEST REGION
on 19th - 21st October 2012in the Cumberland Hotel
Guest Speaker is RAY JOHNSON MBE FACIFilm Archivist, Actor and Film Maker
and finally
2012
The view of the Bay from the Esplanade Hotel on the morning of theSCARBOROUGH FESTIVAL 2011
20th November
Shakespeare is the most filmed author - 457 versions of hisplays made into movies.... not always successfully.
Rock Hudson’s first screen test for 20th Century Fox was sobad that they kept it to be shown to other would-be actorshow not to perform before the cameras.
NOR’ EASTER
14 3SOUTH SHIELDS MOVIE MAKERS
Now meeting on thefirst and third Thursday of the month
JAN 5th Gordon Briggs entertains.Hand in your entries for Spring Comp.
JAN 19th The Spring Competition and Five Minute CompetitionFEB 2nd Triathlon - we judge Bradford and Northern IrelandFEB 16th Brian Dunckley presenting
some of his many films made over the years.FEB 28th TUESDAY in Newcastle ACA NECA CLUB PROGRAMME COMP.
Closing date for entries Sat. 28th JANMAR 1st Darlington Club visit usMAR 15th Annual Competition
The best of our Season’s workJudged by Michael Gough
MAR 29th Showreel nightAPR 12th AGM
Sec. [email protected]
DARLINGTON CAMCORDER CLUB
JAN 5th New Year BuffetJAN 12th Selecting films for the NECA Club competitionJAN 19th Films from DundeeJAN 26th Alan MoonFEB 2nd Scruff ProductionsFEB 9th Holiday Movie Competition
15 minutes maximumFEB 16th Films from NewcastleFEB 23rd Reg Juden Using AudacityMAR 1st We visit South ShieldsMAR 8th Chairman’s NightMAR 15th Annual General MeetingMAR 22nd Annual Dinner
Presentation of trophies
Sec. Alan [email protected]
HAILFAX CINE & VIDEO CLUB
JANUARY10th Films from Southport Movie Makers24th Buster Keaton with Ernest Jennings
FEBRUARY14th Bristol Film & Video Society28th Spellbound with Anne & Gordon Sharp
MARCH13th Paul Wooding’s Stars of the Silver Screen27th Member’s Films - bring one along!
APRIL10th Films from Derby Movie Makers14th SATURDAY Annual Dinner, Windmill Court Hotel 7.00 for 7.30 pm17th Annual General Meeting.
Sec. [email protected]
Hello Everyone,I hope you all had a good and enjoyable Christmas; I should like to takethis opportunity to wish you all a very happy new year.I would also like to thank all those who supported our recent AutumnFestival at Scarborough. Everyone enjoyed it very much. Our speakerAlan Colegrave gave a very interesting talk about his work and how heuses both video and AV in his productions. Sometimes he combines thetwo in one production which helps to convey the subject matter.The audience asked many questions. His talk provoked some very livelyconversation, especially amongst those who stayed on the Sunday night.As still and video cameras become better at producing both video andstill photographs I expect there will be others who will try to combinethe two.In my last chat I spoke about a questionnaire to see what your thoughtswere on the future of our regional spring and autumn festivals.Unfortunately the number of replies was very small, so I feel it does notgive a true picture of the opinion of the members in our region.Because of this I hope to have a discussion with members at this year’sspring festival prior or after the AGM.We have decided to try a different venue this year for the spring festivaland AGM. We will be holding it at the Village Hall in Aberford avillage just off junction 45 of the M1. Tickets and bookingarrangements will be announced in due course. Our speaker will beMike Shaw who some of you will know from the IAC website and NLEemail forums.Mike has won many awards and will prove a very interesting andentertaining speaker.As I said in the last issue we have re-launched our regions website atwww.neriac.co.uk, if you have anything about your club or forthcomingevents you would like adding to the website please let me know and ifyou would like it mentioning in this magazine please let the editorknow. We are always happy to promote club and inter club events. Alsowe do try to keep your club contact details up to date, they do seem tochange very often so please let us know of any changes as the occur.We always need to use these details when contacting clubs aboutregional events.Thank you for taking the time to read this magazine and I look forwardto seeing you at Aberford.
Hello Everyone,I hope you all had a good and enjoyable Christmas; I should like to takethis opportunity to wish you all a very happy new year.I would also like to thank all those who supported our recent AutumnFestival at Scarborough. Everyone enjoyed it very much. Our speakerAlan Colegrave gave a very interesting talk about his work and how heuses both video and AV in his productions. Sometimes he combines thetwo in one production which helps to convey the subject matter.The audience asked many questions. His talk provoked some very livelyconversation, especially amongst those who stayed on the Sunday night.As still and video cameras become better at producing both video andstill photographs I expect there will be others who will try to combinethe two.In my last chat I spoke about a questionnaire to see what your thoughtswere on the future of our regional spring and autumn festivals.Unfortunately the number of replies was very small, so I feel it does notgive a true picture of the opinion of the members in our region.Because of this I hope to have a discussion with members at this year’sspring festival prior or after the AGM.We have decided to try a different venue this year for the spring festivaland AGM. We will be holding it at the Village Hall in Aberford avillage just off junction 45 of the M1. Tickets and bookingarrangements will be announced in due course. Our speaker will beMike Shaw who some of you will know from the IAC website and NLEemail forums.Mike has won many awards and will prove a very interesting andentertaining speaker.As I said in the last issue we have re-launched our regions website atwww.neriac.co.uk, if you have anything about your club or forthcomingevents you would like adding to the website please let me know and ifyou would like it mentioning in this magazine please let the editorknow. We are always happy to promote club and inter club events. Alsowe do try to keep your club contact details up to date, they do seem tochange very often so please let us know of any changes as the occur.We always need to use these details when contacting clubs aboutregional events.Thank you for taking the time to read this magazine and I look forwardto seeing you at Aberford.
CHAIRMAN’S CHAT
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THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGof the NORTH EAST REGION, IAC
on Saturday 24th March 2012
to be held in the
Village Hall, Aberford, North Yorkshire at 4.30pm orafter the afternoon Speaker whichever is the latest
AGENDA
1. Minutes of the Last Meeting
2. Matters Arising
3. Treasurer’s Report
4. Secretary’s Report
5. Chairman’s Report
6. Election of OfficersMembers retiring by rotation and offering themselves for
re-election. Ray Henderson, Jim Kenworthy FACI, Derek Mathieson FACI and Ivor Rose FACI
7. Any Other Business
George Theaker, FACI Hon Secretary
FROM THE EDITOR...... At my Club (Darlington) there was a suggestion that a download of a ‘lite’ versionof an otherwise expensive suite might interest members, one of whom later asked me ifit would be better than the one he was using; Adobe Première Elements 8. I said he wouldprobably be better off keeping the cash trousered because all editing systems operate onmuch the same formula, frequently changing the nomenclature, just to baffle us - likecalling a ‘clip’ an ‘event’, the visual result on the screen will be indistinguishable fromany other - always keeping within the parameters of standard or high definition. There will be many more bells and whistles on the expensive gubbins - there’s gotto be a difference between a suite costing £500 and a cut down version for £50! But dowe want all these instant “Make you a Hollywood Director” claims? It is the content of the film rather than the quality that holds one’s interest and here’sthe rub. We can put on the screen, images equal to the best that the professionals canachieve but when it comes to content, we flounder in dreadfully delivered deadpancommentaries, lifted from guide books that are meant to be read rather than spoken. Enthusiastic commentaries that start immediately after the first fade-in to the lastfade to The End. Flat commentaries that describe what we can see. (David Attenborough) Awfulpuns (Cash In The Attic) I include the two professional titles because they could be somuch better.. Puerile storylines that even professional actors could not make believable. Obscure storylines than mean nothing. I once had to judge an entry in BIAFF thatconsisted of a plain grey background across which an amorphous slightly less grey wispof smoke that drifted from the right of the screen to the left - taking three minutes to doit and then moving back to where it started. Another was of an inside of a computer witha small LED blinking, nothing else, no movement, for four minutes. And can anyone tell me what Bob Lorrimer’s The Bear Behind is about?
An amateur documentary film of which I cannot remember the title had, in theopening 20 second sequence, a man walking toward a canal boat. He was speeded up,slow motioned, jump cutted, distorted and colour changed for, to me, no reason otherthat the producer could do it on his timeline.
I made a gaff at my own club, when a fairly new member submitted a film with apoor soundtrack recorded in difficult circumstances. When projection ended we wereasked for comments and I said that the sound-track was “Totally unacceptable” Therewere several raised eyebrows and intakes of breath. The gaff was that it was the kind ofcomment I would (and have, often) use to seeing my own films before some editing andpruning. It was not the sort of blunt observation that should be made to any filmmaker,rather the choice of words should be more considered. However, this is so frequent an observation made by third parties to others, that weALL recognise shortcomings of others - but seldom ourselves. I wonder why? This is in addition to the the comments on judging in the January edition of the IACVideo & Film Making magazine that arrived with this copy of Nor Easter.
(There probably is no such word as ‘cutted’ but you’ll know what I mean!)
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REACHINGFOR THE STARS!
John Daws, Chairman ofDarlington CamcorderClub fitting their new
9 foot widescreen
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Lynda Gough sends this usefuladdress.
FREE SOUND EFFECTS AND MUSIC
http://www.freefx.co.uk/Said to be a very good quality library
Right now we in PAL TV operate at 25 fps. In theparts of the world using NTSC it is 29.8, using a dropframe to catch up with 60 cycle mains. (There’s acomplicated reason why this is - but not gone intohere!) Amateur cine ran, usually, at 16 and then18fps, sometimes 24 which is the frame rate incinemas..... or used to be. Some of the more recent offerings on the ‘silver’screen are run at higher speeds. The silverdescription might have come from some screensactually being painted silver - wonderful forprojectionists, but that’s about all, anyone sitting offaxis got a very mediocre view for their 6d ticket. Edison for some time in the 1900’s shot hismovies at 46fps to obviate the flicker (hence goingto the Flicks) but abandoned it before very longwhen counting up the cost of film stock! In the nickelodeon days, the projected speed ofsilent films were a something of movable feast.Popular films often shown at a higher speeds so thatan extra ‘house’ could be fitted into the dailyschedule. Film studios started printing the time ontheir posters, but these were pasted over by theexhibitors... The coming of sound standardisedspeed at 24 frames - although changing speed stillgoes on. Because it is transmitted at 25fps. 90minute feature film shown on TV is about 3 minutesshorter than in the cinema... There were also manyvariations in film width - 70mm movies were madeway back in the 1920’s!
in ABERFORD VILLAGE HALLMain Street, Aberford.
Leeds. LS25 3DA
on the 24th March 2012 from 2pm.
GOING TO THE PICTURES
“My working life was involved in advertising, first as copywriter and later asCreative Director in one of London’s major advertising agencies. I started makingfamily movies in the 1950’s using a cheap Dekko camera and crudely edited thefilms using a plastic ‘moviola’ type of editor. I took up filming more seriously whenI retired, hoping to try out some of the skills I had noticed at studios and editing
My first video camera was a JVC-C and my editingsuite was DirectEd. This system was pretty crude and itwasn’t very long before getting a computer and a moreefficient editing system - Pinnacle Studio 200/400 andalmost got involved in testing video editing software forPinnacle - now Avid. Still do their ‘beta’ testing.Now I have a Canon UC-x2 Hi8, Sony TVR900, HC7and FV1 camcorders. My main editing system is AvidMedia Composer with Liquid Avid and Avid Studio asback-ups.
I tend to make short films - a reflection of my career, having to create 30 and 60second Commercials! I am pleased to say that I’ve gained a number of awards at Club, County,Regional and International levels, including trophies at BIAFF and a Silver at UNICARight now, am working on a project about a local resident - Enid Blyton - before shebecame famous. Also the regular Southern Script column in Film & Video Maker
MIKE SHAW
Following Mike will be the AGM and buffet tea.Then a programme of films until about 7.30pm when the Spring Event closes.
TICKETS £7 FROM GEORGE THEAKER, 6B SALTERS LANE SOUTH,DARLINGTON. DL1 2AA 01325 465 698 [email protected]
NERIAC’s Acting Competition OfficerSylvia Spencer would like to remind everyonethat the Chairman’s Challenge theme at Scarborough 2012 isSylvia is shown holding the trophy won by Wakefieldlast year on the theme of
SCARBOROUGH FESTIVAL 201198
MEMORY CURE Alwyn Scott
TRANSPORTS OF DELIGHT Trevor ErmelCLASSIC CARS Trevor Ermel
1 IN 5 Brian Dunckley
ONCE UPON A RAILWAY Ken Clough
PRESTON GRANGE ART GROUP Alwyn Scott
A DAY IN THE KRUGER T.G.Thompson
AWESOME Michael Gough
MYTHS and MONSTERS Trevor and Joan Spencer
ONCE UPON A DREAM Marilyn Susek
SKY’S THE LIMIT Roy and Jean VickersMETAL MAN Roy and Jean Vickers
LAKELAND HIGHLIGHTS Eric Parr
THE FOLK WHO LIVE OF THE HILL Bob LorrimerTHE SKILLS ARE ALIVE Trevor Spencer & Jim Kenworthy
MONEY TALKS Jim WalkerARRIVAL Jim Walker
THE BEAR BEHIND Bob Lorrimer
THE REGIONAL SHIELD + £50METAL MAN
Roy and Jean Vickers
BEST FICTIONARRIVAL
Jim Walker
SENIOR TROPHY - best editingTRANSPORT OF DELIGHT
Trevor Ermel
WORSLEY CUP - best photographyA DAY IN KRUGER
George Thompson
ALEXANDER TROPHY - soundAWESOME
Michael Gough
BEST NOVICEWILSON ARTS CLUB
Alwyn Scott
RUNNER-UP NON FICTIONA DAY IN KRUGER
George Thompson
RUNNER-UP FICTIONTHE BEAR BEHIND
Bob Lorrimer
HIGHLY COMMENDEDSKY’S THE LIMIT
Jean and Roy Vickers
COMMENDEDTHE SKILLS ARE ALIVE
Trevor Spencer and Jim Kenworthy
the films.............the Winners
SYLVIA SPENSERStanding in as Competitions Officerfor Roger Spence who is indisposed
ALAN COLGRAVE FACIProfessional film maker whouses still and video techniquesin his productions
NERIAC chairman Ivor Rose FACI
SCARBOROUGH FESTIVAL 2011
JEAN & ROY VICKERS
ALWYN SCOTT
TREVOR ERMEL
MICHAEL GOUGH
GEORGE THOMPSON
JIM WALKER
TREVOR SPENCER JIM KENWORTHY
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The most watched film in the White House is High Noon .President Clinton is said to have seen it 19 times.
Woody Allen says that he never watches his own films.Your Editor hasn’t seen them either.
Some Mercury members shooting against aprofessional green screen in the club carpark. Man in the centre is Bob Rudd,Webmaster and programme secretary
The scenario for the video grew from an‘Objects’ evening at the Club, where thestoryline was woven around given objects:a car footpump, a mobile phone, etc. The actors were supposed to be going to awedding. A comedyItem by email from Dudley Wilcock
ALAN SIDI
Alan Sidi had a high profile in North East amateur film making. He was an exuberant and inventive film maker. His Sidisync was aningenious way of adding synchronous sound to small gauge film, 16mm,standard and super 8mm , always a huge problem before sound cameras cameon the scene. A member of Mercury Movies, he was a fine filmmaker and produced someof the best underwater shots around the Mediterranean that the writer has seen.One room of his house was given over to editing where along with M.M. memberReg White made many notable films. One was ‘Devil God’ when the scriptcalled for a car to plunge to destruction over a cliff - Alan provided the car!Many other adventures, like shooting a total eclipse alongside Patrick Mooreand being shot AT when he ventured into a ‘No Entry’ place in the USA.
In these days of simply and expensively replacing parts, people withscrewdrivers, cogs, shafts and oilcans, just don’t come along.
Can’t think that there will be many more like Alan, who has died at the ageof 80. (Ed)
GOING GREEN? NECA FILM AND VIDEOTHE OPEN and HOLIDAY COMPETITION2011WOR JACKIE Keith McNallyTHE BEAR BEHIND. R.Lorrimer*MINI MANIA Stephen Green*CENTRAL AMERICA D.WilliamsonKEEPING SOMETHING FOR THE KIDS
Doug CollenderCANADA BY COACH Eric ParrA DODGY TICKER Stan WilsonCLASSIC CARS Trevor Ermel1 in 5 Brian Dunckley*THREE DAYS IN GREECE Trevor Ermel
FILMS ENTERED BUT NOT SHOWN
A DAY IN THE KRUGER George ThompsonAN OPEN AND SHUT CASE Rob BrownA PLACE WHERE CROWS GATHER Royden WhyteAQUARIUM Roy & Jean VickersGOING FOR GOLD Doug TweddleLOGGING Eric ParrMEMORY CURE Alwyn ScottMETAL MAN Roy & Jean VickersPRESTON GRANGE ART GROUP 10th ANNIVERSARY Alwyn ScottROCKET MAN Coast Video Club
WINNING ENTRIES SHOWN IN RED EACH RECEIVED A CHEQUE FOR £50.* indicates Certificate
The Judge was Peter Rouillard FACI
Eric Parr introduced the programme in theabsence of NECA President Brian Dunckley FACI
STEPHEN GREEN
TREVOR ERMEL
ERIC PARR
Chatting before the show.
Monday 28th November
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“A good film is when the price of admission, a dinner and the cost of a bay-sitter isconsidered well worth it.” Alfred Hitchcock
HUDDERSFIELDFILM MAKERS CLUB
2012JANUARY12th Anatomy of a film with David Whitworth19th Practical Evening Colour correction/grading night26th Roger Parnell’s Comedy Night with Laurel & Hardy.FEBRUARY9th Short film competition
also closing date for Annual Competition16th Practical evening Editing workshop23rd WRCG Challenge Match Bradford (at home)MARCH3rd Saturday.
Annual Dinner and Awards Presentation at Meltham Golf Club7th Wednesday WCRG 10 Minute Film Competition8th To be announced.15th Huddersfield Photo Imaging Club visit us. 50/50 evening21st Wednesday South Yorkshire Film Competition
Sheffield22nd Films from the Annual CompetitionAPRIL12th More Films from the Annual Competition
www.huddersfieldfilmmakersclub.org SEC. [email protected]
LET’S HAVE A LOOK AT WHATS ON WHERE!LEEDS MOVIE MAKERS 2012
JANUARY6th Members’ Films13th Bring along a fiction film20th Film Of The Year Comp.23rd MONDAY Trivention Competition at Bradford27th Script Eveningfor the 3rd of FebruaryFEBRUARY3rd Make film from Jan. 27th Script10th Members’ Films17th Fish and Chips Night24th Try being a Judge
Last night for the Annual CompetitionMARCH2nd Trevor Spence gives us an evening7th WEDNESDAY Challenge Match at Mercury Movies9th Practical Evening (How do I do it?)12th MONDAY Challenge Match at Bradford16th Members’ Films23rd Club showing of Annual Films30th Annual Dinner and Awards NightAPRIL13th Dave Myers Films20th Bring along an Animal Film27th LMM Public ShowMAY4th Margaret & Edna Entertain & Educate11th Film to a Record Competition18th Boy’s Night (The Men Entertain)JUNE1st Welcome to the New/Goodbye to the Old President8th Members Films15th Bring along a History Film22nd Films from Roy Vickers29th Leeds Night OutJULY6th 4 Minute & Edit in Camera Comps13th Films of Jack Eley20th Members Films27th Ladies [email protected]
Clipped from The Northern Echo
NERIAC Secretary GEORGE THEAKER writes In spite of the depressing start of the weather for the start of the ScarboroughFestival, three hours after the cover photograph was taken the Seaside Resort wasback to its Sparkling Self and remained a delight for the remainder of the weekend.Not only in the bracing fresh air, but with the friendliness inside the hotel. It wasgood to see so many friends who, year after year, support this annual get-together.The numbers may be slightly down - there was a rather nasty chesty cold doing therounds - but everyone seemed to think that it was a memorable weekend. Ivor, our Chairman mentioned how members enjoyed the fresh approach by theSpeaker, Alan Colegrave to making movies. His ‘Nude Bicycle Ride Protest’presentation was a hoot and was put together in such a way that, in retrospect, hadall the appearance of video, but was in fact, made up of well edited still shots. Another feather in Alan’s Cap was when he stayed behind to help ‘do thewashing up’ by clearing cables, carrying boxes to the projection teams cars, etc.Mention must be made of the muscular efforts of the projection team - all that kitused for the smooth flowing show must have weighted a ton! Rather disappointingly the ‘Chairman’s Challenge’ did not attract many entries- only two in fact. It was a difficult theme ‘Going Home’. All felt for the Judge,(once more) Alan Colegrave. The two entries were so different that it was notpossible to say which was the better interpretation of the theme, but a winner had tobe decided. Alan said after much deliberation, that the Wakefield entry containedmarginally sharper editing and so got the £50 cheque.
EDITOR NOR' EASTERPeter Dobing
6(B) Salters Lane SouthDarlington DL1 2AA
COUNCIL MEMBERSDavid WhitworthDerek MathiesonJim Kenworthy
Joan SpencerKen CloughLinda Gough
Michael GoughPeter Dobing
Sylvia SpencerTrevor Spencer
COMPETITION OFFICERROGER SPENCE
12 Hayton Wood ViewAbberford, LEEDS
LS253AN0113 281 2503
TREASURERRAY HENDESON23 The Crescent
BentonNewcastle upon Tyne
NE7 7ST0191 270 1065
CHAIRMANIVOR ROSE
01325 356 140
SECRETARYGEORGE THEAKER6(B) Salters Lane South
Darlington DL1 2AA01325 465 698
2 15NERIAC
Welcomes new members,Mark Sims from York
Peter Warringtonfrom Cleethorpes
www.neriac.co.ukWEBMASTER
THANKS TO CONTRIBUTORSDUDLEY WILCOCK
LINDA GOUGHGEORGE THEAKER
TYNEMOUTH VIDEO GROUPJANUARY9th A Showreel from Halifax16th Bring a ‘SPECIAL’ film to show23rd Recap on those often forgotten film rules30th ‘50 / 50 Night, stills and movies
FEBRUARY6th North v South Whole Competition films 2009 - 201013th Our Holiday Competition20th ‘Never work with kids or animals’
Walter and Sylvia Clark27th Northumbria Video Group bring their programme28th TUESDAY NECA Club Programme at Newcastle ACA
MARCH5th Secrets of Audio/Visual
Peter Appleton12th Films from the Isle of Wight Club19th A Question of Sport and 3D26th Aspiring film maker’s work from Sunderland University
Sue Thompson
APRIL2nd Appraise films seen and What We Want next year9th Easter. No Meeting16th Annual Competition23rd AGM Please attend30th Dinner Night and presentation of Trophies
Summer Meetings:14th MAY. 11th JUNE. 9th JULY13th AUGUST. 10th SEPTEMBER.
www.tynemouthvideo.co.uk
NOR’ EASTER was, at one time,issued quarterly. Now it is down to
two a year. If Readers andSecretaries don’t send news and
pictures, Nor Easter will become asingle sheet insert in F&VM givingannouncements with booking and
entry forms only.Next Nor Easter deadline is
July 30th
THE FILM AND VIDEO INSTITUTE
NORTH EAST REGION
