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Good suggestion from Michael ... A firm may not be able to let you have a permanent room of your own but it MIGHT let you have a room when needed and the use of a locked cupboard for equipment. In return you could get them some local publicity like newspaper headlines "Firm steps in where Counc...

Stingman has it right - as usual. The IAC licences only cover music - not images. And they only cover it for normal amateur purposes. You can see more details on http://www.fvi.org.uk/central/copyright-clearance-scheme.htm Have a special look at the MCPS section which limits how you can have public ...

I had been hoping for even more technical enlightenment from the knowledgeable people on the forum about this. Yes most lenses give a circular image - and some of the earliest still photos were circles with fuzzy edges. Anyone who made a pinhole camera will have found the same is true of those. Quit...

Just remember that last week the Beeb stopped a woman selling to friends knitted models of Dr. Who villains !

Copyright is a pain. People like George Lucas are generous in allowing/encouraging fan films based on his movies. But sometimes you can see why people object ...

Stephen, bring your IAC Membership Card with you. It identifies you as a responsible amateur film maker and can help if anyone questions your intentions.

Most major national organisations for non-commercial film makers have suitable wording on their membership cards to soothe officialdom.

Dave

In another thread House (Scott Hillhouse director of "Life's Little Gaps") wrote: "As for the fun of filmmaking, I have a little speech I always give to the actors just before we shoot. I explain that if you as an individual are having a good time it will show in your character and yo...

This is so interesting I have started a fresh thread using these last two entries ... please add comments on directing to the new thread and keep this one for BIAFF.

Dave

At http://www.fvi.org.uk/film-making2/lifes-little-gaps.html you can see a photograph of the entire crew and on http://www.fvi.org.uk/film-making2/lifes-little-gaps2.html you can see a list of all the names in that fascinating article about the actual making of the film. By the way "House"...

It sounds as though the computer whose disc was changed is causing a problem. It is unlikely that it has caused physical damage to the camera hardware - that can happen but it is more likely to have upset the software in the camcorder. 1) Try resetting the software in all the cameras. If this works ...

Hi Scott, welcome to the forum. You and I have been emailing each other as you composed the five-minute-production-primer which accompanies your article about Life's Little Gaps on the main IAC website. I'm glad you are meeting some of the other film loving people on this forum. Several people did i...

Did anyone on the forum see the mini-cinema show which included The Messenger - the final part of the animated wartime teddy story told in rhyme? If so, please drop me a pm (private mail)

Dave

Ask a teacher! Some primary schools have a simple animation program. You create (or borrow) a character and in the terminology of the system you can "stamp" it onto the screen, move and stamp it again. I heard about it at BIAFF from the man behind the film Our Environment Is Important The ...

Hi Ian, It used to be known as the "Hitchcock" zoom or the Vertigo zoom because he made good use of it. It is also known nowadays as the "Spielberg" zoom because he used it in Jaws among others. Like other zooms the risk is that it draws attention to itself rather than serving th...

During BIAFF I was not struck by the usual number of zoom shots (whether moving in or out). There were some, of course, but far fewer than in recent years. Have we finally escaped from the tyranny of "the camera has a zoom so I must use it" syndrome? Whenever we have a new technical possib...

People who worked with cine film remember the days when you counted the seconds of each shot carefully because film was such an expensive medium. One film maker told me that running 16mm was like having a sewing-machine on your shoulder stitching up pound notes as it clattered away. Video media : ta...