As part of our Spacehive Crowdfunding campaign, we will be creating a short film about the Newcastle Film Club community made using the new equipment that we've purchased for this project!

BUT we need YOUR VIDEO IDEAS!

At the recent Storyboard workshop, we shared the video above as inspiration for what we could do to showcase NFC. After watching the video, we had members split off into groups during the meeting and brainstorm some ideas about what they'd like to see our video be. 

Do you have an idea for this video? Do you think there are any locations, or people or scenes you think we should do? Write your ideas down in the comments below! 

IDEAS MEMBERS HAVE PITCHED FOR VIDEO SO FAR: 

• At the Old  George, showing the projector, and then dollying out to show the entire club looking at projector, working on scripts, networking etc. 
  
  
• On a zombie film set, with fake blood and vampires, real scary vibe but someone then yelling cut, seeing the people working on set, tagline 'Film doesn't have to be scary, come join Newcastle Film Club'
  
  
• Following someone on their first trip / time visiting film club. They enter Old George, someone greets them, you see them start to slowly get involved, see them on set of a film, see them screen their film and then we follow another new person entering film club (same as beginning) and greeted by the first person showing the full circle of someone getting involved in the club. Tagline 'Join our Journey'
  
  
• You can do it too idea - Show the struggles of being a filmmaker and everything you come up against when creating a film - no actors, gear not working, not pressing record on camera, etc. - show all the struggles but then show at the end the film on the big screen and everyone coming together to watch the film. Tagline 'You can do it too'
  
  
• Show the community at every stage of production, take inspiration from Lord of War promo where instead of a bullet flying it's a camera flying through different stages of production / crew
  
  
• Show the larger group dynamic and that NFC members come from a variety of backgrounds. Follow a range of people and show how each person ends up finding their way to NFC - one via social media, one via flyer on notice board, another from a friend, another from something else, show them all arriving to film club on different modes of transport, and show diversity of group
  
  
• Cinema idea - Two friends are sitting in the Star and Shadow Cinema, the film that they are watching ends and one person says to the other 'Wow it'd be really cool to make a film one day' and the other friend says 'You can make a film with Newcastle Film Club' and the other friend says excuse like 'Oh but I don't have a camera' and random person with a camera pops up from behind their seats to say 'NFC has a camera!'; First person says, 'Ok but I don't have any lights or audio'; two more people jump up to say 'NFC does!'; first person says, 'Ok but I don't know anyone who can help me do it all', another random person says 'NFC has people ready to help, Join NFC!'
  
  
• Go more aspirational and showcase all of the different things that the region has / is building to like Fullwell studios, North East production companies, etc. and show that we're part of this wider North East filmmaking movement
  
  
• Make a short film in the short film about NFC?
  
  
• Showcase the members, have anyone who wants to feature in the video to stand in front of camera and we cut really fast between all of the faces/people of NFC
  
  
• Start off with a film strip that snakes around the screen and shows all of the different aspects / steps of filmmaking and people doing those specific things like 'writing script, storyboarding, location scouting, etc'
  
  
• Morph the video between different genres if there are presenters reading from a script
  
  
• Video is likely to do well with some humour of some kind
  
  
• Have the video end with a side effects / negotiables / warning such as 'Warning: when you join newcastle film club you may experience feelings of creativity, belonging, community, and may make cool stuff in the process' read really fast like American pharmaceutical ads
  
  
• Create a mocumentary style video

PUT YOUR COMMENTS BELOW!

If you also like any of the ideas above, let us know! :D