HACCA'S BACK
In a packed hall on Saturday 28th November 2009 we proudly hosted the Hertfordshire Amateur Cine Club Association's Movie Making Competition. Entries came from Borehamwood, Potters Bar, St Albans and ourselves. The judges were Ken Martin, Aivar Kaulins and Brian Heard who between them gave positive feedback to all the films shown during the afternoon. They also had the unenviable task of picking a winner and two runners up.
It was fantastic to hear Brian Harris from Hemel chosen as the victor with his film 'Top Brass', a documentary following some of the members of a Watford band. In 2nd place was John Astin from Potters Bar with 'Meet me at St Pancras', an interesting look at the history of the London station and it's transformation into the Eurostar hub. Following in 3rd place was a short comedy from St Albans Club, 'The Long Wait', It certainly tickled the audience and even featured Brian Harris in the cast.
Ian
HARRY'S GAME
Residents living near to Leavesden Studios have once again been warned to expect strange sights from October to mid November. Warner Brothers is making the next installment of Harry Potter. They plan to light up the sky with 'flame, smoke and noise effects'.
Large sets have been constructed on the former Rolls Royce site including a huge green screen (might be good for you Jason?). High level film lighting will also be illuminating the night for the locals. Unfortunately visitors aren't welcome though, so we will just have to wait for the 2010 release.
Ian
IN PRODUCTION
SUMMER 2009:
'THE DODGY HORSE'
Alan French's scripted film of all sorts of titles, so many, that I have forgotten what it was called now, was shot on video in the middle of the week July the 15th. 2009. With a great cast in a tatty old wooden garage dressed up to look like the old west, with tired fencing panels, pallets, and left over wood from Magali's outside shed restoration and some gray aging bales of very tired, dated straw and hay.
There was a strong cast, of a huge age range, with good rapport and well dressed actors, including a saloon girl, for the various character parts, gun toting cowboys drinking cold tea from some very old and odd looking bottles. A false moustache, a tattered bowler hat, false smoke producing cardboard cigars all really looked their part and belonging to this rather 'western' era. It seemed a slow long hard day from 10.30 am until about 3.45pm when most adults had to refrain from child like play and head on back to pick up there young children from school. The more mature wandered off into a misty forthcoming sunset.The day's weather was fairly good to us, just the odd sprinkling of rain. An abundance of trains on rubber bands thundered down the line and were dragged back only to be fired again in quick succession down the line again, every time somebody had a line or mere utterance to say, helicopters, planes, traffic all inappropriately centered themselves on Pix Farm City that day. Much to my surprise thought I think they may have got it all in the can, despite the many frustrations and time scale. Well done to the crew and cast for a job very well done. Brian would have said the food was good if you could only get at it.......unobserved.
Byron
WHERE HAS ALL THE OLD NEWS GONE?
