Australian film - Federation of Australian Movie Makers
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Stewart Hobson<br />
Director<br />
Tasmanian Division<br />
Here, about one year ago now, we were all congratulating ourselves on the success <strong>of</strong> the Convention at<br />
Bridport - where has that year gone and what have we done video-wise, since then? Not much and disappointingly<br />
little, I’m sorry to say.<br />
But I can report that Tas <strong>Movie</strong> <strong>Makers</strong> are developing some plans and are looking at scripts so that we<br />
will have some videos for the Queensland Convention in 2010.<br />
One <strong>of</strong> the activities that some club members were involved with has been concluded very successfully –<br />
the <strong>film</strong>ing <strong>of</strong> Clive Brook’s demo <strong>of</strong> his gothic gore script “A Psychotic Bit <strong>of</strong> Gore”. His friend, Ken<br />
Prescott with Broadway credits as a dancer, choreographer, singer and actor, directed local and mainland<br />
talent to successfully complete twenty mins <strong>of</strong> song and dance and action. The “master” has gone to Ken<br />
in LA and we can now only wait for someone, somewhere, perhaps to provide some financial backing and<br />
take things to the next stage. Oh, how we would love to see, and be involved in, some real production taking<br />
place in Hobart again!<br />
A shot from the all singing, all dancing, all gore demo<br />
Our current Club activity, although probably done before, is the production <strong>of</strong> a TMM “ This is Tasmania”,<br />
DVD. At this stage it will be simply a collection <strong>of</strong> some <strong>of</strong> the existing footage taken by members<br />
over the years. The instigator and now coordinator <strong>of</strong> the project, Barrie Balfe, sees it as a promo for the<br />
Club and as a wonderful “exchange” item with other clubs here and overseas. Perhaps there will even be a<br />
place for it “on the net”. It is not seen as a commercial venture at this stage.<br />
We have been lucky to find a prospective new member with loads <strong>of</strong> experience in audio production and he<br />
has <strong>of</strong>fered to run a session on “producing good audio for video”. We have him lined up for the very next<br />
meeting!<br />
So as winter approaches and this reporter starts to plan the “escape to the Sunshine Coast” things in Hobart<br />
are really quite upbeat.<br />
Stuart Hobson. Tasmanian Director<br />
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