Monthly Meeting, Monday October 21st 2013

Monthly Meeting, Monday October 21st   2013
The Meeting will be held as normal at Mornington Community Centre, 16 Maryhill Terrace Dunedin at 7.30pm

PROGRAMME
COMPETITION: Own Choice Max. 5minutes…last chance for 2013 to have a go…you never know how any result may affect the annual scores…every entry is worth a point.

#Guest Speaker:
We have Eddie Fields from the Forensic Photographic unit of N.Z. Police in Dunedin, who will speak on aspects of Police work we don’t often hear about. It will be very interesting, and it is a privilege to have him along. There will be a presentation of photographs to accompany his talk. 
 
In Addition
Andrew Wylie has received a special invitation from Australia for our members and will advise details, together with a promotional D.V.D.
 
Neville and Rosemary Smith have been away on a trip to Canada and Alaska, where they took a cruise. Neville will talk about the trip, an adventure of a lifetime. He may have some film clips for us also
 
Gio Angelo will show a film he intended to present at the last meeting where we had members choice but as he was unable to attend we will see it this time.
 
Supper at closure of meeting
Raffle Draw
 
Your support is appreciated
Peter Begg - President

Next Club-night - A World Premier Screening!!!*

 You, your Partner and / or a Friend are Formally Invited to Attend
     A World Premier Screening!!!*
Mornington Community Centre,
16 Maryhill Terrace Dunedin,
7.30pm on 26th August 2013

The first Time for many years!! An Exclusive Pre – Release, by Invitation Only!

A night to Celebrate the Screening of our just completed Film
‘Three to Go’
A  Warm Welcome befitting the Occasion will Greet You!
*Please See attached Advertising Poster.
Dress Code
1.   The Most Quirky, retro, and colourful you have!
2.   All Actors to come in costumes as featured on Set.                                      
3.   All Crew to wear a funny (or serious) Hat.

# Refreshments will be served on Entry to the Venue.
# included in the Nights Entertainment will be a short Video of the trials and tribulations in making this Film.

Programme (Times Approximate only)
7.30     Arrival and Refreshments befitting the Occasion                              
7.55    Welcome and Screening of competition entries (Own Choice up to 10 mins.)               
8.20    Premier Screening of ‘Three to Go’                                       
8.30     Comments from Actors and Crew                                      
8.45     Some moments to forget…a short video of the day’s trials and tribulations                   
8.55     2nd Screening if demand requires
9.05   Other items of interest

# Andrew Wylie will talk about a project using some of our archival sequences in relation to Bledisloe Cup Display to be held in October    .

# Competition results announced.   
 Raffle Draw & Supper                                           
Peter Begg - President

Monthly Meeting 22 July 2013

Monthly Meeting, Monday July 22nd 2013
Meeting will be held as normal at Mornington Community Centre, 16 Maryhill Terrace Dunedin at 7.30pm
PROGRAMME
COMPETITION
Own Choice up to 5 mins…entry as usual scores for end of year results. Every entry is appreciated and they are all different. It is now well into the year but still time to score some points…remember every entry counts, regardless of results
Other Interesting topics
# Andrew Wylie will show two short video clips.. One on the new Digital projection system in the regent Theatre, and one on Aircraft of the Future…an interesting look into the technical aspects of flight in the future
# A report from a meeting of several members held at Otago Cine Club Theatre in the Athenaeum last Wednesday. Several members meet with the owners of the Athenaeum in the theatre, viewing it and discussing ideas for our future use of this facility, originally constructed by the Otago Cine Club. Some stills of the Theatre in its present state will be viewed.
Our Planned Guest speaker is not available and is now booked for September
#The Drama 3 to Go is well under way and progressing towards the final edit. There will be a report on progress.
         
# Eye Fi…. If time permits I will demonstrate how this works…it is a device which can be very useful while away from home if you want to do lots of photo work
# Competition Results Announced
Raffle Draw
Supper at closure of meeting
Peter Begg - President

Meeting Report for June

The Mid-Winter function was held at John and Robyn Armstrong's and was well attended.

The competition was News and there was a lot of it. There were six entries and these were from Yvonne Renton, Mike Davies, Celia Davies, Gio Angelo, Andrew Wylie and Wilma Deen.
The winner was "Canon News" from Gio and second equal "Wynot News" from Andrew and "Tandog" from Yvonne.
Robyn then gave an illustrated talk on St Petersburg with the highlight The Hermitage.
John then showed his film of Mockba which covered Red Square, the Borodino and Patriotic wars and park containing the fallen idols.
Members enjoyed the evening.

Meeting 24 June 2012

The meeting was a Pot Luck dinner held at John and Robyn's on a cold and frosty night.

The Competition was "Commercial" and there were 3 entries.

First place to Gio Angelo with "Protecta Field", followed by "Bananas" by Celia Davies, "New Car" by Andrew Wylie and "The Smasher" by Mike Davies.

The theme for part of the evening was "Winter" and a number of films were enjoyed including "Winter Images" by Cecil Bachop, "Snow Warning" by Frank Weedon, two films on clearing railway lines of snow and two winter films by John Armstrong.

Following "Winter" the classic "The Plank" was screened and was very well received. Eric Sykes and a number of well known comedians starred in the film. Sadly Eric has subsequently died aged 89. His career spanned more than 50 years and collaborated on the 1950's radio programme "The Goon Show". Thanks Mike for providing the film.   

Report on Meeting 26 March 2012

Several members commented on how much they enjoyed the meeting last night. It certainly was a friendly entertaining and informative night.

The competition was Open maximum 5 minutes and was won by our speaker Gio Angelo with "Disappearing to the Crib". Not only did the crib have a wonderful view it had two theatres and a castle! Second was "Autumn Splendour in Chingford Park" by Wilma Deen, followed by Mike Davies "Theatre by the Sea" and Warren Knox with "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines". All were very interesting and all very different.

Gio then showed some of the intricacies of Video Studio editing program by Corel. It was an easy program to use, plenty of auto features with manual overrides, came with extras such as animation and was reasonably priced.

Nevill explained that planning for the 75th celebrations was well under way and that the date was 3rd November.

The two "Show and Tell" were shown. The first a very well known person who in a show hadn't done his shirt up correctly and the second Sand Art by Kseniya Simonova in the programme "Ukraine's got talent.
For those that want to see it again:-
Click Here 

The meeting finished with supper.

Next Meeting this Monday 26 March 2012

The meeting will be held at our normal venue, Mornington Community Centre, 16 Maryhill Terrace, Dunedin commencing 7.30pm.

What's On this Month?
Speaker
Gio Angelo will be carrying on with our editing series and will explain "Video Studio" using a PC. He will be available to answer questions on the subject. An entertaining and informative time for all.

Show and Tell
This little spot has fallen on fallow ground in recent times but we have at least two this evening. One is a sandpainting and the other shows how even the very best can occasionally muck up.

Competition
The competition is "Open (Choose your own subject) with the films to be a maximum of 5 minutes.

Hope to see you all at our second meeting of the year.

Meeting Report 27 February 2012

The first meeting of the year was well attended and was particularly interesting.
The competition was for the "Holiday Cup" and there were 5 entries.
1st "Dog Island Get-away" by Warren Knox
2nd "Milford Get-away" by Wilma Deen
3rd " Rangitata River Mouth" By Nevill Smith and also "The River Thames" by Ted Hagen and "Kaiteriteri" by Murray Elston.
All the films were particularly interesting and well received.

Andrew Wylie then showed the advantages of a "turn-key" editing system and put the Casablanca through its paces. The Casablanca has now been produced since 1979. The latest versions all have the look and feel of earlier versions.

Nevill Smith then showed some of his films including "The Window Cleaner", "Lois Huoy's Lounge Jackets", "Grand Pa Smith's Apples", "Black Tunnel Web Spider", "Mr Ted - Horsing around", "Raising of the Guns" and a little bit of "Larnach's Tomb".
Well done Nevill and Andrew.
    

Next Meeting this Monday 27 February 2012

The meeting will be held at our normal venue, Mornington Community Centre, 16 Maryhill Terrace, Dunedin commencing 7.30pm.

What's On this Month?
Firstly
Mr. Andrew Wylie is to show us the advantages of a purpose designed editing suite – The Casablanca. Andrew can make the Casablanca fly and his show will be particularly interesting.

Followed by
Mr. Nevill Smith will then provide anecdotes and films from his extensive repertoire. Nevill is one of our most active and successful members and has won a number of New Zealand wide competitions.

Competition
The competition is "Holiday Cup" with the films to be a maximum of 5 minutes.

The 2012 Programme is listed on the sidebar.

A message from the President is in the next post.

Hope to see you all at our first meeting of the year.

Meeting 28 November 2011

It's time for a Stress Free Night with no Rugby and no Parliamentary Elections!  


Meeting 28 November 2011

This is the night of the Annual General Meeting of the Club and will be followed by the screening of a film made by a our famous filmmaker the late Arthur Richardson. 

Arthur joined the Club in the nineteen fifties and enjoyed making personal holiday films as well as experimental animation films for which he became World famous.

"The Hollyford Valley - Xmas 1955-56 is a 15 minute sound film made in the days when you tried to synchronise tape recorders with projectors. Editing the sound on a reel to reel tape recorder was a major task. (there is evidence of a false start in this film actually). Make a mistake and it was back to the start again... soul destroying. (Information from Andrew Wylie).

A film on transformation (you will have to come to find what it is about), a film Andrew has prepared from the archives,  Presentation of Awards and most importantly Christmas supper.

Where do we meet ?

The Mornington Community Centre,
16 Maryhill Terrace,
Dunedin

Next Meeting Monday 22 August 2011

The next meeting will be held at our normal venue, Mornington Community Centre, 16 Maryhill Terrace, Dunedin commencing 7.30pm.

What's On?
Back to Basics series led by Nevill Smith and Andrew Wylie will continue with the aid of one other! Back to Basics has proved popular and informative.

Due to the cancellation of last month's meeting there will be two competitions this month - "Open" maximum length 5 minutes and "Commercial" 30 seconds exactly (excluding credits).

This will be followed by screening of members films that have not been shown for a number of years. 
You are most welcome to bring one along but please maximum of 5 minutes and dust off the cobwebs. If there are too many we can hold the surplus over to another night. 


Name tags are now available for all financial members and are available from Nevill Smith. Some members have found them especially useful when filming in public places.


The committee is now considering the 2012 programme including social and competitions. If you have views on these matters please have a chat to a committee member.

Reminder - Entries to the Arthur Richardson competition close 1 October. Entry requirements are detailed elsewhere on the blog.


Finally supper per courtesy of Harry. 

Looking forward to seeing you all

Club Night 18 October 2010.

The meeting was a week early due to Labour Weekend the following week.

The 5 minute open competition was won by Wilma Deen "The Blowholes of Punikaiki" with Warren Knox 2nd with his film "Forestry Park" and 3rd went to Gordon Caley "Paris". Congratulations to all three entrants.


Following on, Nevill Smith, Wilma Deen and Frank Weedon explained how they planned their films To illustrate the points Nevill showed a scary film on spiders, Wilma and Harry ate lots of ice cream with a spoon, and a young Frank showed how to manipulate shoulders. Quite a mixture but made the points well.

The panel then answered a variety of questions.

An excellent evening.

27 September 2010 Meeting

Our Monday Night meeting went off as usual but with a smaller than usual attendance. 

Unfortunately due to business commitments our speaker was unable to attend this month. 

A programme was  cobbled together from a variety of sources and we must thank Nevill, Wilma, Warren, John, Gordon, Andrew and the Protea Video Club of South Africa for providing film at short notice.
The Competition was won by Warren Knox with a film on Classical Architecture.

Film Night 26 July 2010

There were two Competitions and the winners will be published shortly

This was followed by Green Screen Revisited with a quick demonstration of how it is done. Gordon Caley then showed a wonderful little film demonstrating several ways it could be profitably used.  Thanks Gordon.

Wilma Deen was thanked for producing the six monthly bulletins over many years. 

 

The Blog was then demonstrated and members were encouraged to keep up with the happenings of the club by checking regularly.

Three films from the Morecambe Video Club were then shown.