Written by Nicky Getgood on Thursday, October 8th, 2009 ( Start discussion )
Tags: digital district, fazeleystudios, hello digital, Millennium Point
Lolitics does Hello Digital
Hello Digital promises to be ‘an extravaganza of robotics, illuminations, animations, digital film, music, games, exclusive showcases’. So if you’re into that kind of thing, check out the Hello Digital programme. Most events are at Millennium Point, there’s also an interesting Digital District discussion at Fazeley Studios next Wednesday.
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Friday, October 17th, 2008 ( Start discussion )
Tags: cat bray, Chris Unitt, danny smith, film dash, hello digital, matthew stanton, maverick tv, michael balcon, Millennium Point, Pete Ashton, rachel marchant, roger shannon, stefan lewandowski, stickleback productions
This evening saw the exciting launch of the 48-hour Film Dash in the Custard Factory theatre. Teams of all types are taking part, including employees of Maverick TV, Stickleback Productions, two eight year-old children and one-man team Stefan Lewandowski, who I suspect may offer us a taste of the dark side.
All teams have until Sunday evening to film, edit and submit to organiser Chris Unitt a 1-5 minute film, which must contain a reference to the named Michael Balcon film and one line of dialogue from Whisky Galore! that has been specifically assigned to them.
The films will be judged by Matthew Stanton, Balcon expert Roger Shannon and Cat Bray. The winning entry will be screened at the Michael Balcon: Into The Light event at the Odeon Cinema on New Street as part of Hello Digital. All the completed films will be shown on a loop in the atrium at Millennium Point for the period of the Hello Digital festival, which was bad news for those wanting to include non family friendly content. There was also talk of organising a special screening event of all entries and Chris is open to suggestions of suitable venues for this.
Chris was at pains to stress it was creativity and original ideas Film Dash is after, rather than great cameras or technical excellence. This was great news for Pete Ashton, Rachel Marchant and Danny Smith’s TTV team, which is using a seriously DIY device on their camera. The resulting effect is interesting.
There are plans for this to be the first of many Film Dashes. I’m determined not to miss out on the next one.
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Sunday, August 17th, 2008 ( Start discussion )
Tags: Batman, dark knight, imax, Millennium Point
And this is what I thought of it:
Yet another sell-out screening with a massive queue. The special effects were good and all the better for being on a massive screen. Heath was lush, and Bale’s voice really did drop 3 octaves when he was Batman. The Joker may have had razor blades taken to his face, but Batman eats them with his cornflakes.
Even funnier was the bad school Halloween display of plastic bats caught up in a web of cotton wool in the Imax Box Office:
Aw, bless.
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Written by Nicky Getgood on Saturday, August 16th, 2008 ( One response )
Tags: brumbloggers, dark knight, imax, Millennium Point, thinktank, twitter
Right now I’m in my dressing gown at the tail-end of a ludicrously lazy day, thinking about getting dressed and out of the house to make it on time for the evening screening of The Dark Knight at The Imax Cinema in Millennium Point. I felt I had to book myself a ticket after all the Twitter posts about watching it on the huge screen. If you live and blog in Birmingham, it seems you simply must go and watch the latest Batman film at The Imax and tweeting about it is compulsory:
First off comes the moaning about The Imax’s crap website:
This makes booking tickets hard to do:
I can vouch for this. Booking my ticket online took several attempts and their ‘ticket hotline’ had no-one to answer it. But once tickets were booked excited anticipation followed:
High spirits have often been dampened by bloody great big queues at The Imax:
The screenings have been sold out, which caused nostalgia in some:
So I’d really better get dressed and get there early to avoid front-row seating and a sore neck:
45 minutes early, to be precise, which means I haven’t got that long:
Because the cinema really will be rammed:
Which has often meant that although people have enjoyed the film:
They haven’t always enjoyed the venue:
I really hope it’s worth the effort of getting dressed and Heath’s last stand is indeed, lush:
Watch my twitter account to see how I enjoyed it!
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