Get your brooms out and dust off the doonas.
- Glenn
- May 2
- 3 min read
It was another modest turn out for our club meeting of 1 May with eleven members turning up and rugged up for the start of the cooler months.
Together - Glenn chaired the meeting and began by congratulating Peter for the amazing effort and response to his movie Together which he described as ‘inspired - how together we can do more and be happier’. Peter said he had incredible positive feedback from the almost 300 people who attended the Balmoral CinePlex theatre last week. He showed a ‘behind the scenes’ video of people arriving, the introduction to the movie and post-screening comments. It was the end of a long but extremely rewarding effort which began in November 2023. Peter said he would keep followers updated via his private Facebook.
Film Bite – Paul showed a short video on “Composition and Framing” by British Director of Photography John de Borman BSC. “In good cinematography, a frame cannot just be a representation of what’s in front of you. It's got to have three-di-mensionality, it's got to mean much more than what is shown and (you) have to constantly think every time I’m doing a film how could I make this image more poetic, how can I say more about the state of the emotional state of that character”. So ‘framing’ can be so much more than the “Rule of Thirds’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8V6GJdT_Bg
David gave an update on Smoke and Mirrors. He now has nine complete scripts which is an amazing effort and there is a lot of preparation going on behind the scenes such as the all-important financing and creation of music for the intro and outro for the series. A long way to go but the light in the tunnel is getting brighter.
Broom – Murray presented an update on the interclub project Broom which was shot at the last club meeting. Raw footage is available for all members to have a go at editing. Just contact Glenn via our club email address brisbanemoviemaker@gmail.com and he will send you the camera vision and story line. It’s up to you how you interpret it – it can be serious, humourous, documentary or fiction. As mentioned previously, this is our first entry in an exhibition/competition with our interstate clubs in NSW and Victoria. They were much further advanced than us in preparing entries, and have suppled is with some of their competed videos.
Here are links to see some of their work.
We hope to have a couple of entries ready for viewing at our next club meeting, which will also feature a discussion on “judging’ criteria and methods. The closing date for all entries is 31 May – so we have just one month to get going on it.
To round out a very visual meeting, Peter showed an example of a project he began some time ago called “Humans of Brisbane”. This is the theme for our end-of-year club video project, This was an interview with overlay and showed just one of many ways we can interpret and approach the theme. Again, it’s totally up to your own interpretation but it can be a group or solo production. Just another way we can all become actively involved in the video making experience.
As the meeting wrapped up at 9.30, Glenn mentioned that our next meeting on Thursday 15 May will include another inspirational ‘film bite’, judging a movie and planning for future UGG competitions this year.
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