Surrey Border Film and Video Makers

I joined the video club in July 2002, as I had been editing films on computer since the previous February, and had learnt enough to know I needed some help. The club has 80 members and meets monthly. Probably about 60 members are active, and they make some very impressive films, either as individuals, or as part of fairly fixed groups. Click here to visit the club website.

A frequent, well every 2-3 years, club competition is to take about 45 minutes of random footage supplied by Committee members, and attempt to make a story from it, by adding your own soundtrack to such visuals as you need. You can also slow down or speed up the clips you choose. This year the choice of clips ranged from various holidays, to an old Farnborough Air Show, some Red Nose Day antics, a members film of the anti Iraq war demo, country craft fairs, and I have absolutely no idea where our opening clip came from.

Most of the members who joined in the previous year, including myself,  were drafted by Paul, a long standing member, into a group we decided to name 'The OddBods'. The film we made in 2003 was 'Breaking News'.

Breaking news        broadband                                            Breaking news        56k

The Club annually has a competition where various film making groups, both long term groups and those created for the competition, make a film around a central 'theme', this year 'Unexpected Guests'. Although planning and rehearsals take place in advance,  the film shown to members has to have been made entirely on the same evening. This means that the film has to be edited 'in camera'.  Filming takes place between 7.00 PM and 9.00 PM, and the films are watched at the club house from 9.30 onwards. The OddBods came together again, with a few extra members, to make the film 'Unexpected Guests'.  A second camera was used for additional footage, and to take a few shots of us filming, and I subsequently took both the original film and the second camera's film and remade it with the advantage of computer editing, this version being called 'Itching a Lift'. Click the link below to watch it.

Itching a Lift      broadband                                    56k version

I subsequently edited a tongue in cheek film of the group members at work, plus some out takes, called 'Not quite 'Itching a Lift'.

Not quite 'Itching a Lift    broadband                        56k version

In 2006 the club had another editing exercise, as before, from totally miscellaneous footage, and this is what I came up with, with some help from fellow members.

Editing exercise 2006 broadband                                

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