Colchester Film Festival 48 Hour Challenge 2012

A team from the East Berks Film Group entered the Colchester Film Festival 48 Hour Challenge 2012 last weekend. We were given the brief at 12pm on Saturday 22nd and given until Monday 24th to complete, edit and upload the film. Nisha Anil directed with the help of John Stewart and Ed Hancock. John came up with the script after a hectic brainstorming session with Nisha, Ed and Robert Martin Kelly. We were given the title “The Myths of Life” a line of dialogue (“I don’t care, just make it happen!”) and the film had to feature a stone being thrown into water. The film featured the acting talents of Richard Mehr, Adrian Relph, Louise Longson, Monika Lewikowska, Stanislaw Sowa and Andrew Foley. Ed and John filmed and John also took care of sound recording with Andrew. George Chamberlain was unit assistant and the music came from Tibursky. When all was done John was faced with the task of editing at great speed to get everything finished.

Here’s the link to the film: http://vimeo.com/groups/cff48hr/videos/50047727

Behind the scenes with the East Berks Film Group

Some behind the scenes footage from the making of “Messiah and son” back in August 2011. The footage (and quality) varies between dv 4 x 3 and HD 16 x 9

Artist Profile Film

Now on YouTube the end sequence from the Artist Profile Film – Ian Treherne, Photographer and Artist – filmed by Rob and John in March 2012.

 

7 Daze to Ibiza

Angharad Parry’s film “Seven Daze to Ibiza” is now on YouTube to watch:

It was a truely collaborative effort, with almost the entire film group involved. Hats off to Ang for winning the best Made in Slough film in the Slough Festival. There were many top quality films on show that day and it was no mean achievement to go go away with an award:

More projects are coming in 2012. Watch this space…

TheatreFilm Lab

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As well as meeting every month, we’ve also decided to run courses on certain weekends. The first of these was the TheatreFilm Lab run by Nisha, a fun day of creative brainstorming, experimental storytelling and performance. The day ended with a read through of Angharad’s short film script, the next project scheduled for production. Future labs will focus on other aspects of film-making, technical and performance, usually with a view to planning events deal with when making film projects.