BMM MEETING - THURSDAY 5 September 2024
President Jenn opened the meeting at 7.35 and welcomed 14 members.
The meeting began with a Film Bite selected by Jenn called “Automatica – Robots versus Music” by Nigel Stanford. It featured robots programmed to play music – keyboards, percussion, guitars and DJ turntables. Bizarrely it also showed robots programmed to throw guitars, smash pianos and use laser beams to totally trash the studio. Art imitating real life.
Indro Hub membership forms. Treasurer Nigel informed members that the Indooroopilly Activity Hub had advised that it did not have membership renewal forms for a number of members whose membership was paid by BMM. Members affected will be emailed renewal forms to be returned asap. This does not relate to club membership, only Hub membership which the club has paid for all members.
Momentum production update. Pamela J, whose script won the Club’s script writing competition, updated the club on production planning. Jenn W has been engaged as the director, the script has been revised, several options are being considered for the film location, quotes and options are being obtained for the critical night-time rain sequence (discussions are being held to determine the best way to shoot the sequence at night). The search has started for a cast of three actors – “Rosemary” a retired ballerina in her mid-fifties, “Ben” a young farmer and “young Rosemary” aged in her early 20s. Issues such as crew, catering, costumes and props will be addressed as soon as practical.
Eleven Tomorrows update On 14 September David W, Glenn, and Jenn will be involved in a discussion on the US TV network Futures Television on the production of the Eleven Tomorrows suite of films. Futures Television specialises in “broadcasting content related to Future Studies and Intelligence with the goal to promote the dissemination of thoughts, bring a diversity of voices, foster awareness, and create understanding among people so that together, we can co-construct a better future”. Sounds right up our alley.
Donation of equipment. David W advised that former club member John Harrison offered, through David, a swag of equipment including a gimbal and extensive lighting kit. This will be a very valuable donation to the club. David also advised that he would like to donate lighting kit and green screen which are surplus to his requirement. These very valuable donation which will add to and update our collection of equipment available for club members and club shoots. A tremendous gesture by both David and John.
David also announced that he is pitching a project to Netflix to write and develop a Sci Fi series. Netflix has three series in the genre - Black Mirror, “a mind bending anthology series of twisted tales that reveals humanity’s worst traits, greatest innovations and more”; Love, Death and Robots featuring “terrifying creatures, wicked surprises and dark comedy” and Oats Studio “a series of experimental short films that envision post-apocalyptic worlds and nightmarish scenarios”. Sounds like lots of fun. Good luck David. Twisted tales run wild in this mind-
Together update Peter W thanked his crew - Jenn, Nigel, David, Murray and Glenn – who contributed to the filming last Saturday (31 August) at Albert Street Uniting Church of the Lady Beetles performance of Let It Be. They shot five takes in the morning as well as making a behind the scenes film. There are plans to shoot All You Need is Love in mid November.
Centre of Spectacular - Murray’s Excellent Adventure in the centre of Australia. Murray shwed a 20 minute video of part of his recent tour to the centre of Australia. This was a six-day section of a month long trip featuring Alice Springs, The Old Telegraph Station, McDonald Ranges, West McDonald Ranges, Ormiston Gorge, Kings Canyon, Kings Creek Station Uluru and the Olgas. It featured stunning scenery, ‘breathtaking and spectacular’ geological formations, flora and fauna, the “Field of Light” light-based installation at Uluru, the always spectacular sunrise over Uluru with its incredible changing light on the Rock. A memorable highlight was the Erldunda Roadhouse at the intersection of the Stuart and Lasseter Highways which serves as a truck stop, travellers rest and zoo with native animals roaming around. The video was shot handheld which Murray said posed some difficulties in the rough and rugged terrain and bitterly cold weather. Murray was highly praised for his video, editing, scripting and narration. Great work Muz.
Handbrake – nothing to do with cars, this is a free open-source software program to compress large video files to much smaller size without losing original video quality. It’s an extremely useful tool if you are transferring videos via the internet on sites such as wix.com. Nigel showed a video demonstrating how the software works. Click here to see the video . Nigel said he had used it to compress a file 1.27 gigabytes to 38 megabytes (FYI one gigabyte equals 1,024 megabytes). Well worth a look.
A discussion on “how to rip your DVD legally – the hard way and the easy way” was scheduled but time ran out so this will be held over for another meeting. Nevertheless, a ‘ripping’ time was had by all when the meeting ended at 9.35pm.
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