Monthly Archives: March 2015

Exercise 3 rom St. Margaret’s Withern in Lincolnshire features three versions of a drumming circle. The static long take shows the ensemble – it’s squarely about a group into which an individual doesn’t fit. Long take 2, with a moving … Continue reading →

Legsby Primary in Lincolnshire made this compilation of Exercises 1, 2 and 3, together with a sneak preview of their final film. For the edited, montage version of Ex 3, we talked about using cross-dissolves as a default edit style … Continue reading →

Exercise 3 in ‘L’Intervalle’ asks for a scenario where Character A passes an object to Character B, and then to shoot three ways: ‘plan fixe’, or static camera; moving camera long take, and edited montage sequence. Birkenhead have been playing … Continue reading →

Welcome to colleagues and young people from Birkenhead Sixth Form College, who have been following Cinema Cent Ans de Jeunesse in a compressed, all day format, on Saturdays this term. Sebastian Secker-Walker is the film-maker, and financial support comes from … Continue reading →

Exercise 2 of this year’s theme – ‘L’Intervalle – asks us to take comparative shots of a character approaching the camera, but looking beyond it. We’re asked to shoot this scenario using different focal lengths – wide, telephoto, and somewhere … Continue reading →

THAMES group wrote on Tuesday 17th March: This is our response to exercise three. The film observes a meeting between two characters as they exchange a rather gormless looking human being. We shot the film in three different ways: once … Continue reading →