Welcome from the President

As President I look forward to the challenges in the coming year and  although I have been in the club for many years there is still much to learn,and would appreciate all your support. The club has been through some challenging times, and also very interesting times through this period, with the finale last November of the 75th Jubilee Dinner, for which we owe a great deal of gratitude to the 75th  committee led by Nevill Smith and also to Robyn Armstrong for the production of ‘Southern Reels’, ensuring that important historical stories, facts, and photos are there for future historical interest.

Thank you to the committee for the work put in in 2012, and congratulations to all those elected to the 2013 committee. This club has 75 years of successful operation behind it, and we plan to  continue having some great years ahead.

The new committee have had it’s first meeting for the year, and our very strong aim is to make 2013 a year of club enjoyment and growth. We plan to have guest speakers, more outings, a number of new and exciting project ideas have been hatched, with an emphasis on getting people outside the immediate club involved, and perhaps welcoming some new members.

Many of us have gone through several era’s of development in film making, from the days of  making movies with super eight, 16 mm, then video cameras 8 mm, hi 8, VHS, and super VHS, and now a digital revolution is occurring in film making, multi formats, memory drives, access on the home computer to sophisticated editing programmes, all of which are changing continuously. However the simple rules still apply and in camera skills these days have changed little in producing an effective result. What you take, how you want to convey your story is still down to your work with the camera...We will be working with interested members on camera and editing techniques through this year.

Peter Begg

President