2011-2012 PROGRAMME

All meetings are held at: St Andrews Hall
Albert Road, Caversham Reading RG4 7AW
starting at 8pm, doors open 7:45pm

2011
Tues 6th Sept	OPENING NIGHT INTRODUCTION TO FILMING COURSE	Welcome to new and old members and review of programme. Start of Video course [Camera Craft 1. Set up and controls]
Tues 13th Sept	INTRODUCTION TO FILMING COURSE Week 2	Video course [Camera Craft 2 Creating powerful images & Audio]. Screening of award winning film with group analysis afterwards.
Tues 20th Sept	INTRODUCTION TO FILMING COURSE Week 3	Video Course [Good Lighting]. Screening of award winning film with group analysis afterwards.
Tues 27th Sept	INTRODUCTION TO FILMING COURSE Week 4	Video Course [Introduction to Editing and editing software options]
Tues 4th Oct	INTRODUCTION TO FILMING COURSE Week 5	Video Course [Effective titling and creating a professional looking and sounding DVD. Planning an entry for next week's novice and one-minute competitions].
Tues 11th Oct	INTRODUCTION TO FILMING COURSE Week 6 Competition night	Video Course [Q & A - course summary/ review] BURKE TROPHY for the best 10-min film or video made by a club member who has not previously won a club competition, + CAVERSHAM CUP for the best 1-min film or video
Fri 14th Oct	GATEWAY TROPHY TRIANGLE COMPETITION	Our annual competition against Staines and Bourne End hosted by Staines at 8pm. Laleham Village Hall, The Broadway, Laleham Middx TW18 1RZ Arrive 7.30pm for an 8.00pm start.
Tues 18th Oct	GUEST SPEAKER	Dennis Lowe – Visual effects supervisor and documentary filmmaker. Dennis has worked on many films including Alien, Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back, Frankenstein, The English Patient & Cold Mountain
Tues 25th Oct	THE CURRIE CUP	Our annual competition for the best 4-minute film or video
Tues 1st Nov	GUEST SPEAKER	Guy Langdon will be demonstrating the excellent and inexpensive Magix editing software
Tues 8th Nov	AN ANIMATED EVENING	Brian Hibbitt [British Puppet and Model Theatre Guild] presents an evening of award winning puppet and animation films all produced using different techniques
Tues 15th Nov	THE GROSVENOR TROPHY	Our annual competition for summer project films made by club members
Tues 22nd Nov	Filming Live Events	Tony Colvile will illustrate problems with filming/editing various live events using clips from pantomimes, a wedding and band concerts
Tues 29th Nov	GUEST SPEAKER	Documentary filmmaker Nicholas Brazil presents his latest film “Naida’s Story – The Remarkable Tale of a Beautiful Yacht”
Tues 6th Dec	THE WARD TROPHY	Our annual competition for the best holiday film or video (max 15-minutes)
Tues 13th Dec	GOODBYE 2011	Enjoy a social fun evening with drinks and nibbles to celebrate the coming festive season and at the same time learn how to download short videos from the web for screening on the 10th Jan. Fun filming with green screen.
Tues 20th Dec	NO MEETING
Tues 27th Dec	NO MEETING
2012
Tues 3th Jan	NO MEETING
Tues 10th Jan	Internet Films	Bring along YouTube / Vimeo videos which have made you laugh, cry or inspired you? Let’s learn from other filmmakers around the world. It will be a very interesting evening
Tues 17th Jan	THE GEAR TROPHY	Our annual competition for the best documentary film or video (max 15-minutes)
FRI 20th Jan	ANNUAL DINNER	At Reading Golf Club. Bring your family and friends for an excellent night out and a chance to eat, drink and socialise
Tues 24th Jan	OPENING TITLES	Franc Genna will show the things we can learn from the great and not so great openings of films
Tues 31st Jan	GUEST SPEAKER	Paul Walker from The Electronic Picture Co presents an evening on 3D animation. Also learn how to get animating without spending loads of money
Tues 7th Feb	Green Screen Magic	Roger Chapman will give a practical demonstration on the creative uses of this amazing technique
Tues 14th Feb	Software Round Up	Simon Parker will share knowledge with a round up of useful software used by members with a bias towards film production. Plus some films
Tues 14th to Thur 16th Feb	BROADCAST VIDEO EXPO	BVE exhibition at Earls Court 2. Register online for free entry
Tues 21st Feb	Let’s Film Cooking!	Jorge Franca will teach us different techniques used to film cooking; then during the second half of the evening he’ll be showing some award winning films
Tues 28th Feb	Creative Aspects of Film making	Ian McDougall will present a dual approach to capture audience interest avoiding the cliched and predictable and showing how to seek and develop original ideas
Tues 6th Mar	GUEST SPEAKERS	Dave & Jan Watterson who are leading figures of the Institute of Film and Video, return to the club for another fascinating evening.
FRI 9th Mar	STAINES INTERCLUB COMPETITION	At Laleham Village Hall, TW18 1RZ at 7.30pm
Tues 13th Mar	BERNARD BAREHAM FICTION TROPHY	Our annual competition for the best story film or video (max 15-minutes)
Tues 20th Mar	A Year of Change	Geoff Addis & Andy Jones share their knowledge of new Final Cut Pro X,  tape-less workflow
Tues 27th Mar	GUEST SPEAKER	Ron Prosser (chairman of the IAC) presents his cinematic CV “Films from a misspent youth”
Tues 3rd Apr	Gadgets and Gizmo’s	Franc Genna will be demonstrating his home-made time lapse gadget and showing his short film produced using this device. Bring along your gadgets and share your filmmaking tips with us
Tues 10th Apr	THE BOURNES CUP	Our annual open competition for the best film or video. (max 15-minutes)
Tues 17th Apr	PRACTICAL EVENING	A fun film challenge to get your creative juices working – 3 teams each given 2 props, film a story for screening next week
Tues 24th Apr	Planning Summer Projects	Screen the films shot last week. Start working on your ideas and getting your crews together for an exciting summer ahead.
FRI 27th Apr	READING PREMIERE NIGHT	We invite our friends and families to see the highlights of our year and present our awards at the Reading Golf Club
Tues 1st May	ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING	Lets review the last year and plan for the next and have some fun too!
FRI 4th May	OUTSIDE VISIT	RFVM films shown at the Surrey Borders Club
Summer break
SUN 15th July	Social club BBQ CANCELLED - too wet	Filming opportunities for members, partners and family at The Meadows by river and Thames Valley Park Drive 11am - 4pm
Tues 18th Sep	START of 10012/13 Season	tba

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Programme Coordinator :
Karen Cripps

The Programme Co-ordinator is an important job that brings together the speakers, competitions, presentations and workshops into a successful season of weekly meetings.

Laurie explaining composition aspects during the 2011 Introduction to Filming Course
and below, explaining Crossing the Line