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by FILM THURSO
Mon Mar 09, 2009 12:05 am
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Garage Sit Tour- Red Nose Day 2009
Replies: 0
Views: 5122

Garage Sit Tour- Red Nose Day 2009

Howdy. Well TK421 has completed his tour of duty and returned to command headquarters where all the secret data gathered has now been decoded and logged at http://thursopicturehouse.piczo.com/gar ... var=000044

£100.00 raised so far. :D
by FILM THURSO
Fri Mar 06, 2009 6:44 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Green film making
Replies: 14
Views: 12832

Re: Green film making

I live on an estate of former AEA housing from the late 50s and early 60s. The houses here have front to back living rooms which as standard are fitted with two light fittings on the ceiling. Nearby is a house, the sort with curtains open wide at all hours (that's okay if you live one floor up) wher...
by FILM THURSO
Fri Mar 06, 2009 12:47 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Green film making
Replies: 14
Views: 12832

Re: Green film making

They contain Mercury... NOW THERE'S A SMART IDEA! :D (Many video projectors also contain mercury based lamps :( )


I understand the original light with the first fillament that worked way back in Victorian times is still working! I want that one.


LED's are the next step.
by FILM THURSO
Fri Mar 06, 2009 12:04 am
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Green film making
Replies: 14
Views: 12832

Re: Green film making

Yes, ...along with the big bang! :shock: Outside of film making I'm researching ancient civilisation in the Caithness, this includes a meteor strike and ancient cultures between 15.000BC to 400AD. Most of the facts are nothing short of a guess, most guesses are completely wrong- and just the profess...
by FILM THURSO
Wed Mar 04, 2009 7:44 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Green film making
Replies: 14
Views: 12832

Re: Green film making

There's still a lot of if's and but's about global warming and like many things scientific, it is mostly conjecture. However it is clear that change is happening and we need to be aware that as a species our "advances" in the last 200 years have marked a whole new pattern within earth'e cl...
by FILM THURSO
Wed Mar 04, 2009 7:21 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: Good quality machines, bad quality films
Replies: 13
Views: 11323

Re: Good quality machines, bad quality films

I remember seeing a postcard some years ago with a couple on a beach. The wife was looking at her man with a "what on earth are you doing" kind of look as she sat in her deck chair. He is entangled in his and is saying, "I like it this way!" Which perhaps sums up what some people...
by FILM THURSO
Tue Mar 03, 2009 7:54 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: THE BIG GIG 2009- NEW VENUE
Replies: 0
Views: 5132

THE BIG GIG 2009- NEW VENUE

Howdy all, The Big Gig has moved to Caithness Horizons at the Town Hall Square, Thurso. have a look here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jrf7Sj6XyY&feature=channel_page The venue is the latest visitor attraction giving a wonderful insite into the history of Caithness and also has changing exhib...
by FILM THURSO
Tue Mar 03, 2009 7:43 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: Good quality machines, bad quality films
Replies: 13
Views: 11323

Re: Good quality machines, bad quality films

Hot topic for sure and I fully agree that folk give too much attention to having the latest flashy gadget and not enough on making a good film. Many of the greatest films were made with less than technically perfect equipment. It's not what you've got but what you do with it as the Mother Superior w...
by FILM THURSO
Sun Nov 23, 2008 12:09 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: Movie titles - what's in a name?
Replies: 22
Views: 20087

Last night I had a look at a couple of my films on youtube and found myself guilty as charged me-lud! On the Wick Gala Week film the title is frame high on a bright background but I think we get away with it because it's a gala parade with big colors on bright backgrounds. On the Relay For Life film...
by FILM THURSO
Fri Nov 21, 2008 7:24 pm
Forum: Club and General Issues
Topic: Age
Replies: 65
Views: 55572

Perhaps we need to remember that the nature of what we do governs the content of the magazine and therin lies a tragic impass. The magazine is produced in every way by professional hands yet it's content by default is non-professional. The very nature of this means that we the contributors do hold a...
by FILM THURSO
Fri Nov 21, 2008 2:08 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: Movie titles - what's in a name?
Replies: 22
Views: 20087

"SPEAK LOUDLY AND SLOWLY FOR THE AUDIENCE MIGHT NOT UNDERSTAND" kind of titles are used by less the experienced (and the clueless) where the maker want's their film to stand out. With such titles this is acheived from the onset but more in a moronic way rather than artistic or entertaining...
by FILM THURSO
Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:33 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: The Big Gig- NEW WEBSITE
Replies: 13
Views: 12165

It's available on postcards, tea-towels, mugs and and a host of other handy items, visit the website linked above. :D There are three things that make Britain great... Scotland, England and Wales in no decernable order. :D :D
by FILM THURSO
Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:41 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: The Big Gig- NEW WEBSITE
Replies: 13
Views: 12165

Golly, I've never seen a more accurate discription of an American Tourist! :D They are a strange bunch, polite, friendly but strange the way they do all those things while we go about our business in the latest fashions. The only place they blend in is Edinburgh's Royal Mile where there are plenty o...
by FILM THURSO
Mon Nov 17, 2008 2:45 pm
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: 3:1 Ratio On Video
Replies: 6
Views: 7421

At Film-Thurso we don't mask down the frame. We are using anamorphic lenses and the full 4:3 or 16:9 frame. For youtube we flatten the frame to fit. For dvd on 16:9 tv's we flatten the frame less so it is still partly anamorphic and the tv will simply take the picture to the correct ratio with any k...
by FILM THURSO
Sat Nov 15, 2008 12:22 am
Forum: Competitions, Festivals and The Art of Film
Topic: The Big Gig- NEW WEBSITE
Replies: 13
Views: 12165

OOO, never knew about that listing, that's great and we fell about laughing at the tail end comment, absolutely right up our street. :D Friday 17th and Sat, 18th July in Thurso at the Royal British Legion and Sun, 26th July in the Mackay's Hotel, Wick. The other location dates are not set and will b...