First timer - New Home!
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 10:47 am
Bonjour,
This is my posting to the forum. I have recently relocated to the Lyon area of France. My hometown was Nuneaton, Warwickshire UK.
Many seasoned IAC members will know of Nuneaton well and the contribution they make to the IAC. I was a member there for many a year, just making documentaries and holiday films for local consumption.
Why did I leave? Well, we always intended to move at some stage to my wife’s home town of Villeurbanne. And the time came.
How did I start film making? My first film was made in 1978 on super8 to ‘Save Nuneaton Arts Centre’. It was ‘saved’, whether this can be attributed to my £30 film, I will leave other to conclude.
I joined Nuneaton Cine Circle quite some years later and carried on as a member making docs and travel films for local consumption. I finally joined the IAC and ventured to BIAFF’s & UNICA in Blankenburg and met some most inspiring film makers.
I made my second fiction film last year, with some actors from a local drama group. For this I used my Panasonic AG-DV30 and edited it using ‘Magix’! Yes, I do have Premier 6.5 but ‘Magix’ is so darned simple and effective. (In my work I used AutoCAD, so I can drive a computer).
So for me, this is a new adventure in both living and film making. Life in France is now a new challenge, I intend to continue to make movies.
If anyone can share a similar experience of moving to a new country and setting up moviemaking contacts it would be valuable to hear from them.
This is my posting to the forum. I have recently relocated to the Lyon area of France. My hometown was Nuneaton, Warwickshire UK.
Many seasoned IAC members will know of Nuneaton well and the contribution they make to the IAC. I was a member there for many a year, just making documentaries and holiday films for local consumption.
Why did I leave? Well, we always intended to move at some stage to my wife’s home town of Villeurbanne. And the time came.
How did I start film making? My first film was made in 1978 on super8 to ‘Save Nuneaton Arts Centre’. It was ‘saved’, whether this can be attributed to my £30 film, I will leave other to conclude.
I joined Nuneaton Cine Circle quite some years later and carried on as a member making docs and travel films for local consumption. I finally joined the IAC and ventured to BIAFF’s & UNICA in Blankenburg and met some most inspiring film makers.
I made my second fiction film last year, with some actors from a local drama group. For this I used my Panasonic AG-DV30 and edited it using ‘Magix’! Yes, I do have Premier 6.5 but ‘Magix’ is so darned simple and effective. (In my work I used AutoCAD, so I can drive a computer).
So for me, this is a new adventure in both living and film making. Life in France is now a new challenge, I intend to continue to make movies.
If anyone can share a similar experience of moving to a new country and setting up moviemaking contacts it would be valuable to hear from them.