JERSEY CAMCORDER CLUB
VIDEO FILM-
Our President, Charlie Blampied, whose 80th birthday we celebrated a while ago, regularly contributes an article for each Newsletter, and although they are not always related to filming matters, he always manages to capture a slice of life as seen from his viewpoint. He has a loyal following, and so some of his articles are reproduced here.
NEVER TOO OLD TO LEARN -
How time flies! In the last 12 months it seems I’ve done nothing. Yet never a day passes that I’m bored with nothing to do apart from helping club members to cover events and films.
Which reminds me, I must tell you about my acting career, and my part in a club project thought up by Wally Rowe and Alan English, called Charlie’s Wonderful World. The idea was to film me miming the song ’What a wonderful World’ and for members to film views to match the lyrics.
Well club members came up trumps with the views on their camcorders—but I’m afraid I suffered from stage fright and just couldn’t relax. However after a few words of encouragement from Alan and a number of retakes, they called it a day. It seems we managed to get enough footage for Dieter to edit, but it was quite a problem for him as he had so many scenes submitted he didn’t know which to choose. I don’t know if it is the end of my acting career, but you never know, I might get another chance.
But back to filming matters. At last I have decided to move on a pace, and bought myself a computer! I got as far as learning how to switch it on, but then my teacher, son Philip, suddenly had to return to Australia, where he now lives. So it’s going to be quite a massive learning curve for me to manage to edit a video. Fortunately fellow club member Derek uses IMovie as well—after all, that’s why I bought it—so I’m hoping he will find time to help me.
So I think the next 12 months will be more than busy for me, because after all you can’t teach an old dog new tricks that easily.
