Press release June 2002

The June meeting of Surrey Border Film & Video Makers started with a session to help members generate film plots for their July film making competition. Films made during last year’s competition were then shown.

The club is preparing for an exciting meeting next month where members will work as competing teams endeavouring to produce complete films in just two hours! Clearly such an event requires a great deal of preparation beforehand and none of this can happen until each team has decided on the plot for their film. Well this June meeting certainly helped develop some plots. Member Ron Clements who is well known for his ability in the ideas generation field had the audience working with amusement and gusto, causing ideas to pour out. Whether these ideas will be the ones used next month we will have to wait and see but as sheer entertainment this evening will be remembered for a long time.

After a refreshment break the audience came back for an entertaining view of last years films, each also made in just two hours. What a standard was achieved! Once again much laughter rippled through the audience.

By far the best film was held back to be the finale for the evening. It was a superb roving camera, behind the scenes, record of the frenetic activity as each of last year’s groups worked to film their two hour masterpiece. Delightfully this roving camera managed to pick up the many pitfalls that happen in real life, especially when everyone is working just a little too hard. One group were all ready to start filming, only to discover that tape for the camcorder had been left at home. In another group, a vital actor turned up too late, for others there was a catalogue of mishaps most of which were overcome. This bird’s eye view of what was going on was superbly produced and hilariously funny in places while being very helpful and informative.