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Press report: February 06A PASSION FOR FILM AND MUSICAfter the AGM on a cold February night, Peter Matthews entertained Surrey Border Film & Video Makers with a showing of his early films. He told us that his career involved TV and camera systems as used by the military which stood him in good stead later in his film making days. It was soon obvious that a passion for music and model railways found an outlet in his films. His first was of a model railway system that seemed to have taken up most of his garden. He mixed in ambient train sounds and included fascinating shots taken by a camera pulled round by his model railway. His next film was “The Foundry”, an absorbing insight into the casting of bronze statues by a local foundry at Lasham village. The film came about because the Alton Gallery had commissioned a bronze statuette – dancing girls- and wanted someone to produce a short film to run continuously during the unveiling ceremony. The atmosphere was captured with superb images of the foundry workers pouring molten bronze, and then breaking open the moulds and finalizing the statue. One of Peter’s professional friends did the voiceover to which he added a very pleasant musical background. Peter’s next film –“a serenade to Four Marks”, was a peaceful reflection of the countryside around the village of the same name. This was followed by “Baby’s day out” a film made in just two hours as part of an annual competition within the club. Shot and edited in camera, it depicted a family day out and a father rather reluctantly looking after baby with dire consequences. The final film was a celebration of the new millennium in Four Marks and was a kaleidoscope of the people, village life, and of activities for young and old during the year. Peter hoped it would be a tribute to all those who were living in the village and would serve as wonderful archival material of those times. |