Club Night Events Programme
The club meets weekly between September and April
Weekly activities include :-
External Speakers. These are usually professionals who earn their living out of Film and Television industry. Recent speakers have included professional video makers, television or Film producers, TV Actors, news and sports TV Camera operators and Northwest Film Activists. It is common for them to show examples of their work and to talk about it.
Internal Speakers. are members, who talk about their filming activities. More experienced members will talk about technical topics such as use of drones, safety and regulations, editing techniques, software, use of sound and animation.
Competitions are held periodically. Members wishing to do can enter short films in categories such as local interest,60 second films, documentaries and holiday films.
Programme For 2026
5 JANUARY – Showcase raffle. Bring along films that you have made over the summer plus a raffle prize. If you haven’t made a film over summer bring something else.
12 JANUARY – Talk over how we will tackle the programme subjects during the season. A very important part of the club to strike the correct balance between the many varied subjects we have planned this season.
19 JANUARY – Annual General Meeting. And if time permits, Also discuss how to choose the best music for your films. (See notice for 20 April)
26 JANUARY – We will be showing a showreel from Newcastle Movie Makers. A new movie makers club to us, so we look forward to watching their filmmaking styles and skills.
We are in for a good informative evening.
2 FEBRUARY – Tonight Dave W will demonstrate different film making and editing techniques. He will have 3 different subjects relating to film making and 4 editing techniques. This includes a fantastic voice enhancing programme that involves getting rid of background noises, coughs and kids screaming. Just leaving a pure clean voice. He will also show 3 films made by Cleethorpes video club as part of this evening’s programme of information that’s entertaining too.
We are in for a good informative evening.
9 FEBRUARY – Warriner Competition. (film no longer than 5mins.) The title is “Within a mile of
where I live.”These will be judged by club members.
16 FEBRUARY – Gadjets and Gizmos. Members bring along any that they have and demonstrate them, eg cameras, camcorders, tapes, GoPros, 360 deg cameras, mirrorless, gimbles, supports, software programmes, the list is endless . You can say why they bought them and what you like and don’t like.
23 FEBRUARY – We will see films sent to us from Mercury Movie Makers in Leeds. Another new movie makers club to us, so let’s see what they have to offer and how they make films.
2 MARCH – Norman and Frank will demonstrate the Pinnacle editing programme. A really good stable editing system that’s easy to use. A film will be also be shown.
9 MARCH – Mike Ellis will show slides and video of 200 years of railways. The railways celebrated their 200th year last year and Mike will take us through this amazing story.
16 MARCH – One minute competition and The Cumbria competition. Bring 3 films – total time (3mins 20 secs) long. Three ways of doing a subject or three different subjects. To be judged by members.
23 MARCH – Play the rushes of film taken by members on the Lancaster Canal. These will be uploaded by Frank and will be edited next week at the meeting.
30 MARCH – Edit the canal film as a group. Could be a very interesting evening.
6 APRIL – Easter. All of us go out and film on our smart phones. Venue to be discussed.
13 APRIL – Continue to edit the smart phone film which we took last week. If we don’t finish, this can be continued perhaps next season.
20 APRIL – Music to fit film. Dave W will send a disk with the same clip but with 3 different pieces of music. (Each 1min 30secs long.) At the end of the 3rd clip the DVD will be paused and we will discuss which piece fit best. There’s approx 2hrs worth of content, so loads to go at.The music is from MBMMs library.
In the second half members will bring along short sections of their own films where they think the music sounds good.
27 APRIL – End of season dinner.
END OF SEASON