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Ringwood Movie Makers Inc Ringwood Movie Makers is an award winning group of amateur enthusiasts who enjoy and help each other to make and screen movies. It is situated in the east of Melbourne near the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges. Established over 50 years ago, the club has progressed through the technologies of film, video, and has now entered the digital era, where computers are an essential part of the editing process. The club meets on the 1st and 3rd Friday of each month in the Ringwood East Senior Citizens Centre at 8pm. People, outside the club, who are interested in making movies are most welcome to attend a meeting. Competitions Members are assisted with regular technical talks as well as the production of group movies and regular quarterly competitions. The club also competes in the Victoria Competition. Below you can see Club President Ron Fry presenting June Furness with a Victoria Competition award for popular vote winner and second prize for her movie of Camargue in the South of France. This movie has a brilliant sound track with music by Colin Prohasky and spectacular shots showing flamingos slowly marching on their long spindly legs in perfect time to the beat of the music. June's award follows previous Victoria Competition awards won by Norm Tillack for his intriguing movie “The Amish of Lancaster County” and a year earlier by Ron Fry for “The Eden Project”. Individual members often enter other competitions – both local and international, and have had pleasing results over the years. Services to the Community As a community service, Club members now have 220 movies on DVD, (ever increasing), prepared by Stuart and Shirley Walker which they screen free of charge to community groups and aged care facilities. Maroondah City Council at their Australia Day celebrations awarded the club “Community Event of the Year” in recognition of these long term community contributions. Club members co-operated with Monkami (a centre for intellectually handicapped people), filming and editing two highly enjoyable productions of “Titanic”. Other Points In addition to regular meetings dealing with technical topics Vice President Tony King has kept us up to date with “Tony's Ten Minute Tech Talks”. His development of the Club website www.ringwoodvideo.org.au has enabled a number of prospective members and other Clubs to contact us. One result of those contacts has been an exchange of movies between us and Edinburgh Cine and Video Society, Adelaide Film Club, and Long Island Movie Makers of New York. A historic film made by Fred Haering "Hugo's Gold" has been screened several times on TV Channel 31. It is an intriguing story of the rediscovery of gold coins hidden in a cellar wall in Israel during WW2. The coins were returned to the now 100 year old owner who lives in Melbourne. Club President Ron Fry presenting June Furness with a Victoria Competition award Our informative quarterly magazine “Take One” is produced by John Millard. Page 38 Australian film & video
Hi all from Auckland. We’ve had a pretty full-on three months, although the windup of the Angela Fox Project as described in our last report has taken much of our time. However, for our March meeting we were delighted to welcome Margot Francis, a renowned New Zealand film editor. Her latest full-length work, “A Piece of my Heart” was to be screened on national television the following Sunday. Margot worked as an editor in New York for 18 years, then back in New Zealand for the last 8. With a love of documentary and drama she says all film is effectively related to documentary or drama - even home movies. The more she edits the more she learns. Each segment she edits has to tell a story, even a 30 second commercial. She observed, “If it has an idea but no story what is the point?” To a layman the job of the editor is to ‘bond bits together’ although he is actually influencing the success or otherwise of the end result. Margot suggests that when editing you put the shots together quickly as it is essential to become familiar with your material. Spend time looking for those moments that you really like adding markers so you can find these bits easily later. You may not know just yet how you’re going to use them, but when you’ve selected your cuts, look at them again. Take the time to sit and watch to make the connection. Once the film is shot – throw the script away. The material will tell you what is needed – it will tell you what is too long or boring. You can’t plan everything. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. When it’s edited and you have looked at the beginning, middle and end you will soon know if it works. If you are interested in what you’ve made the film is well edited. Transitions are important but make sure each is natural and not noticed, and music can completely change the mood of the film controlling the pace of more than 50% of the story. Then, a film has got to be fun to watch. If people are squirming in their seats it’s uninteresting and the movie has no power. If your audience isn’t hooked ask yourself why you have lost them. Maybe the film is not developing, or too much of the same material is being shown. Finally, a film must stand on its own – it alone should tell the story. Thanks Margot - a wonderful evening. While we are probably all aware of the pointers she made, the manner in which we adopt and use them will soon show up in the level of acclaim our own movies receive. Martin Coles. FREE MEMBERSHIP PROMOTION 2009 I would like to thank the seven Clubs who participated in the Free Membership Voucher promotion. Unfortunately due to their Club’s efforts in participating in this promotion there were no takers for the free offer of club membership. Editor. Australian film & video Page 39
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