Yes the club has been extremely busy during December and January. Firstly we held our Christmas Social on Wednesday 15th December in Ferring Village Hall. It was a happy, sociable evening and included a fairly testing Christmas Quiz, but we all enjoyed the challenge. Our Social Secretary brought along a lovely varied buffet selection from a local […]

On our club night of Wednesday 17th November, we held the annual Summer Shoot competition, except it wasn’t a competition! I’d better explain. In order to have a valid competition with voting and the awarding of magnificent prizes, (well a round of applause anyway), we have to have at least 3 entries. Sadly this year […]

October’s meeting was devoted to scripts, with one reading of a new script by Alan Cross and 2 from Alan Eyles, together with a couple of other readings submitted by non-members. All members were given the opportunity to read parts. Further discussions will take place to see if any can move forward into film production. […]

Our first face-to-face club get-together for such a long time, was our 2021 barbecue. The weather was hot and sunny, the location was ideal as usual (Howard’s large garden), and the food delicious. What a way to re-commence our club actives now, during the lifting of lockdown restrictions. We had to set a limit of […]

As nobody had been on holiday recently, (surprise, surprise), it was time to dig out some older footage and re-edit it, to make something worthy of entry into our annual club holiday competition, on Zoom of course. And 10 films were entered. Howard Johnson put them all on a single YouTube Playlist for us, (with […]

‘The Chichester Challenge’ is what we usually call our friendly annual competition with Chichester Film and Video Makers. This was cancelled last year, but we were determined to have some sort of get-together with Chichester this year. So on Wednesday 21st April, we held the ‘Chichester 50:50 film appreciation evening. 10 CFVM members joined 11 […]

Our own member Alan Cross presented us with a great technical talk on Wednesday 17th March. This included a look at the new Canon EOS R5 mirrorless camera, which he has purchased, considering some of its many features and functionality as a film camera, as well as its undoubted capabilities as a stills camera. To follow, […]

SDFM club members were treated to 9 very different films produced by it’s own club members, shown in a playlist on the SDFM YouTube channel in it’s annual Christmas Film Competition. This encompassed a variety of holiday films edited over the Christmas holiday period together with films made specifically to reflect the lockdown situation over […]