Major $130 million budget Ridley Scott film to be shot close to the club!!!!

Kevin Durand and Alan Doyle are part of the cast of Ridley Scott’s proposed new film about Robin Hood and his merry men written by Brian Helgeland. The film is to be released by Universal in 2010. It stars Russell Crowe in the lead role. On wonders what new twist is possible for such a well known story. Cate Blanchett is set to play Maid Marian. Durand will play Friar Tuck, Scott Grimes will play Will Scarlet and Alan Doyle will play Alan a Dayle, a roving minstrel.

When I walked the set early May the workers said shooting would start 'in about six weeks'. Later information gives August 2nd as the filming start date. One of our members walks her dog in this area and so we hope to keep close tabs on what is happening. Watch this space!

Anyone with information please sent it to the webmaster address at the bottom of this page.

Club promotional display in Farnham Library on 23 May this year

Val showing her pleasure at the very professional new club banner which she created with the help of her son

As part of the Farnham Creates festival our club had a stand in the main road entrance to the library. The overall promotion of the festival was disappointing and as a result the number we had at our stand was down on last year. However of the people passing through a good proportion expressed an interest in coming along. Particularly encouraging was the interest shown by those in their teens and early 20s.

Poor Mike - up the Amazon!

Read about the near catastrophe when Mike went on a filming trip to Brazil. He was there to make a film to help raise funds to clean up the river basin of the Gravatai river but disaster struck as his boat filled with crew and equipment overturned!

Filming for charity project Step by Step complete - May 2009

Surrey Border Film & Video Makers is in the middle of a project to assist the charity 'Step by Step'. The main filming is now complete and it is 'just' the editing that has to be done. Gordon has volunteered to do this and this is well under way. The outcome will be video shots to include in a Step by Step Power Point presentation and a DVD that can be shown for fund raising purposes. For more information contact anyone on the committee.

SOUNDS LIKE ... The April meeting

Often sound is treated as secondary to vision but the April meeting sought to challenge this idea and redress the balance. At the March meeting tapes were available of a 3 minute silent film shot by Rita and written by Val. Members were invited to take a tape, add a sound track and bring it back to be shown at the April meeting. The story had most of the elements, suspense, surprise, romance and a mysterious ending. Around a dozen members responded, with sound tracks ranging from simple pasting of popular songs to more crafted tracks ranging from drama thru romance to comedy. Altogether an enjoyable and instructive evening.

Well done Val and Rita