Cine Club Premiere

The evening of Tuesday 19th September was the West Berkshire Cine Club film premiere. The invitation said to dress for the occasion, as there would be a red carpet! Indeed there was - and many local school children wore bow ties or evening dresses.

We gathered in the Corn Exchange auditorium to see the results of 12 weeks work by participating primary and secondary schools, and the Newbury Day Centre. Each had taken on the challenge of story-boarding, directing, filming and editing a four minute feature film, to include an homage to a movie. Those that fulfilled all criteria were awarded a 'cine club certificate', which appeared on the screen after their film. The movies varied enormously, but were all entertaining in their own ways! The two primary schools involved; Speenhamland and Whitelands in Thatcham were very different - Speenhamland's had a very experimental indie feel, and Whitelands was a comic take on Frankenstein.

After each film, some of the participants were interviewed by the organiser Christina Pepper of the Corn Exchange, and revealed some of their special effect secrets, or the problems they experienced in filming. There is no doubt the participants all loved to see themselves on the big screen, and can't wait to make more movies this autumn.