Cambridge film festival

Cambridge Film Festival

About the Festival

First established in 1977, the Cambridge Film Festival has been committed to delivering high quality independent films to the widest possible audience. Bold and imaginative in its presentation of films, the Festival embraces the latest technology, while also showcasing its passion for the heritage of cinema. Since 2007, the Festival has been run by a registered charity, the Cambridge Film Trust, as the highlight of a year-round programme of events that aim to bring challenging and provocative cinema to Cambridge and the Eastern region. At the Festival we champion new methods of filmmaking and emerging platforms of distribution. Through our open submissions process, we support filmmakers from all across the globe as well as locally, providing a platform for new talents to showcase their work. Over the years we have selected titles by filmmakers who have gone on to achieve international acclaim, including a student short 'Larceny' from Batman director Christopher Nolan (1996) and the Oscar-winning 'Wasp' by Andrea Arnold (2006). In 2010, we're celebrating our 30th birthday and are planning a packed line-up that will commemorate this special occasion.

Studio 24 proudly supports Cambridge Film Festival along with Film Trust. 

For people who love films.

Festivals

LATITUDE

the festival Latitude covers acts from comedy to poetry to film and music and theatre.

http://www.latitudefestival.co.uk/lineup/index.aspx

The festival is being held from Thursday 15th to Sunday t

he 18th of July at Henhan Park, Southwold, Sunrise Coast, Suffolk.

Whats in: With headline acts each day with Florance and the machine, Belle and Sebastian and Vampire Weekend the target audience goes to more of the music fans of these kinds of bands, teenagers(or any age) and families looking for a good festival,  but i think the festivals audience appeals to anyone with any interest in music, comedy or theatre.

The festival is funded by The Word, Absolute Radio, Taborg, Gaymers Cyder, Pepsi Max and Viagogo.

The Cambridge Folk Festival.

 

Website: http://www.cambridgefolkfestival.co.uk/

29th July - 1st August at Cherry Hinton Hall.

The target audience is folk lovers or music lovers. 

Seasick Steve, Dervish, the unthanks, Ezio, Pink martini are a few acts playing this years Folk Festival.

The Festival is organised by the Cambridge City Council and sponsored by The Co-op. 

Supporters of the festival are, Scottish Arts Council, EFDSS, Unison, Mojo, Greener Festival amongst others. 

DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL 

Download is the biggest Rock festival in the world, with the biggest names in Rock history playing over a three day period including Aerosmith, AC DC, Motorhead, Rage Against The Machine Wolfmother and many more. 

DOWNLOAD takes place on Friday the 11th June 2010

The festival is held at Donington Park, right next to East Midlands Airport Donington Park lies where the three counties of Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire meet. . Download attracts anyone who has an interest in this genre of music (Rock). 

Download gets funding from many other music companies. KERRANG!, Bbc Radio 1, Metal Hammer, Classic Rock and hmv. 

Scene unit update,

Today we have been designing posters to advertise 'Bazaar' at the junction which is the night we are putting on there. 

Record

I am about to start the unit Record.
For this unit i will make a video of 'How to do' something.
I am still unsure of what my final video is going to be.
I have thought of many things such as, 'How to make toast' 'How to make tea' 'How to tie a shoelace' 'How to tidy a room' and many more.

History
The history of film spans over a hundred years, from the latter part of the 19th century to the present day and beyond. Motion pictures developed gradually from a carnival novelty to one of the most important tools of communication and entertainment, and mass media in the 20th century. Motion picture films have had a substantial impact on the arts, technology, and politics.

In the silent era of film, marrying the image with synchronous sound was not possible for inventors and producers, since no practical method was devised until 1923. Thus, for the first thirty years of their history, movies were silent, although accompanied by live musicians and sometimes sound effects and even commentary spoken by the showman or projectionist.

Film history from 1895 to 1906
The first eleven years of motion pictures show the cinema moving from a novelty to an established large-scale entertainment industry. The films themselves represent a movement from films consisting of one shot, completely made by one person with a few assistants, towards films several minutes long consisting of several shots, which were made by large companies in something like industrial conditions.

The first movie cameras were fastened directly to the head of their tripod or other support, with only the crudest kind of levelling devices provided, in the manner of the still-camera tripod heads of the period. The earliest movie cameras were thus effectively fixed during the course of the shot, and hence the first camera movements were the result of mounting a camera on a moving vehicle. The first known of these was a film shot by a Lumière cameraman from the back platform of a train leaving Jerusalem in 1896, and by 1898 there were a number of films shot from moving trains. Although listed under the general heading of “panoramas” in the sales catalogues of the time, those films shot straight forward from in front of a railway engine were usually specifically referred to as “phantom rides”.

One major new development in the early 21st century is the development of systems that make it much easier for regular people to write, shoot, edit and distribute their own movies without the large apparatus of the film industry.