Monthly Archives: January 2013

Completed excercise 1&2 recently. Ex1 was brilliant. Our kiddies have always been really good technically (their use of re camera and equipment is excellent). The area of film making I’ve always wanted them to really master and understand is the … Continue reading →

We have a partnership with the Centre for the Moving Image in Edinburgh, following the model of Le Cinema cent ans de jeunesse.   Groups in Glasgow, Dundee, Edinburgh are doing the exercises, watching the films, and getting to grips with … Continue reading →

Last night we had a real.. boys’ club film screening.  London Nautical, half a dozen sixth formers from St. Mary Magdalene in Islington, two teachers, Sam our film-maker, me, all male. Truffaut’s autobiographical 400 Blows is pretty much a boy’s … Continue reading →

In the last London Nautical session before Christmas, we looked at the sequences from Coppola’s Tetro as recommended by the Cinematheque team at the training days in September.  The first half of Tetro revolves around 9 scenes shot in the … Continue reading →

January 19th 2013: I did a presentation on a Masters residential (Creative & Media Education MA at Bournemouth University) which included the Cinémathèque project. I set the students a slight variation on the 4-shot exercise – the awkward situation in … Continue reading →

The session is about watching each others’ edits of the last task – to shoot a scene featuring a couple of friends meeting a third party and there’s some awkwardness between them, 4 shots only, see 1st edits here. They … Continue reading →