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Miscellaneous Films Click on the pictures to see high quality videos |
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The Last Hunt? Rather to my surprise my anti hunting husband wanted to visit a local Hunt meet on the Boxing Day 2004 which was the last 'normal' Hunt before the ban took place. I took along my camcorder (as you do) and made an informal record of the event.
A Captain's Memories - I rashly volunteered to make a film record of my husband's year as Golf Club captain, 2003/04, and this is the film of his 'inauguration', the Captain's Drive-In, which will be the intro to the main film.
A great day out is the Steam Fair that comes annually each summer to Knowl Hill. I took the camcorder on one visit. The fair attracts a lot of steam engines, vintage vehicles and motor bikes, it has steam driven organs, one providing music for a dance troupe, who got my husband up on stage to Can Can with them, and a great funfair.
We have a time share in a narrowboat and have had two holidays so far. Hopefully a dedicated page will appear in due course, but in the meantime, this is a rather tongue in cheek film I made for an online competition, it's called 'Chill out' on the Canal, but in this film, there were almost no chill out moments, it's all go!
We had a weekend in Rome one January, it rained a bit, but not enough to spoil the trip, and Rome is a lovely city. We must go back in Spring or Autumn next time. Although I made a longer film for my own memories, I made a shorter film about one aspect - just walking about the city and what there is to see - for my club's competition, and this is it. I then made a film for the web, about the more obvious places, the Roman Forum and The Vatican, as you can't really go to Rome and leave them out!
We've been to Las Vegas twice, so far, and this film was made after the second trip, reflecting on the changes since the first, and using some footage from both visits. As they don't like you filming in the gaming rooms (although I was allowed to keep the small amount of film I had taken) I used a few bits from an advertising video to do the final montage.
We spent a weekend in Bournemouth, and as my video club was looking for 'one minute epics' for one of the club meetings, I made these two film taken from days out, a little anecdote about a visit to a Solent boatyard, and a mini documentary about Purbeck stone.
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Requiem for Concorde Ever since the withdrawal of Concorde from service was announced by British Airways, I had an urge to make my own personal memory of an airplane I'd always admired, though never traveled on. A 'Requiem for Concorde', a montage of film of her life, set to music. The day of the last British Airways flights had plenty of footage on the TV, but still I needed some suitable music. Then a guitarist friend of mine sent me a piece of music played by him and arranged by a friend of his, a version of the classical Requiem. I thought it was an ideal match, and this is the result.
My son has played clarinet since he was 8, with various school, uni, and local concert bands. I went along to one Christmas concert with his current band, Bagshot Concert Band, and two cameras to film it, and this is an excerpt.
NASA - We have been to Florida numerous times, but I haven't yet made a coherent film about the place. However, we have visited the Kennedy Space Centre more than once, in 2002 we were lucky enough to coincide our visit with a Shuttle launch so I made a film that could finish with that. Unfortunately, inexperience of the event meant my film of the launch was not very good, but nevertheless, I was there!
A trip to Cyprus about 10 years ago. We stayed in a mountain top village, Pissouri, near the south coast. We played golf in nearby Secret Valley, and drove to Paphos and Ayia Napa at opposite ends of the island. We've been again this year (2009) and I may add some film in later, but found it to be much more commercialised, built up, and, thanks to the Euro, expensive.
My son has an aircraft engineering degree, and if funds allowed would love to learn to fly. He has had one lesson so far, from a friend who is now with British Midland, so has given up instructing, naturaly enough. He had a couple of other friends along with him, one using my camcorder and the other his digital still camera. This is the shortest of the films I made from the footage.
We toured central California in Autumn 2007, and so far I haven't finished editing the film, but I did do a documentary for the club competition about the Redwood trees.
September 11th 2001 Or 9/11 as the Americans express it. Shortly after the events of that day, a friend created an audio memorial. Then some 3 years later he suggested I collect some relevant visuals and make a video to go with his soundtrack, in time for the 3rd anniversary. I thought this was an interesting project, but as time had passed, and also the music chosen indirectly reflected on the future, I went beyond 9/11 to include some of the events it precipitated. Then on the five year anniversary, I felt it appropriate to make a video purely in memory of the people in New York, with no thought provoking political visuals. The same music, so choose which you'd like to watch.
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