48 hour filmmaking with a difference.

Happy new year fellow Cutters!
It's that time of the year again! Time for our 48 hour filmmaking competition. This time it's going to be a slightly different affair, so head on over to the the facebook event and check out all the details.

The planning session will be at 18:00 on Friday 13th Jan, BOYD ORR 407 (LT A).
Hope to see you all there.

Costume design workshop

Fellow filmmakers!
The constume design workshop is tonight!

Tend not to put enough attention to costumes and clothes when making a film? Let the actors wear whatever they are wearing? You might want to reconsider that after this workshop!

We at Cut are happy to announce that we are having a Q&A session with Katy Taylor. She has done costume design for various film and television productions - including HBO's Game of Thrones!

Come along, bring your questions! You know the place - the good old Boyd Orr, but this time on the fifth floor (room no. 507, lecture Theatre C).

Katy's website:
http://web.me.com/kathryn.taylor/Katy_Taylor_Costume/home..html

Hope to see you there.

Pirate Cinema - Slap It On The Screen

Our annual pre-Christmas screening event is this Monday (the 28th of November) at 8pm in The Beresford Building, 468 Sauchiehall Street. (Thats the new Art School venue.)

Thank you for all your submissions. It's going to be an awesome night!
For more info, join the facebook event.

Creative Editing Workshop

Have you ever had trouble breaking out of that Final Cut cage?
Is Sony Vegas getting your goat?
Do have trouble getting your computer to behave?

For everyone who's ever thought there must be more to filmmaking than cut and paste, Cut proudly presents the...

CREATIVE EDITING WORKSHOP!!
( Click here for the facebook event)

Tuesday 15th Nov, 7pm, Boyd Orr 407 (LT A)

Also, remember to get your tickets for the GUST/Cut ceilidh (22nd Nov.), and submit your films to our screening event "Pirate Cinema - Slap It On the Screen" (28th Nov.).

All the latest events from Cut

So here's a rundown of all the awesome stuff we've got lined up for you...

Projects night @ Tennents Basement Bar on Byres Road. Tuesday 8th November, 7pm! Bring a project, bring an idea, bring your mates and all the in-between.

The annual Cut/GUST ceilidh - Tuesday 22nd November. It's going to be an absolute rip-roarin' hoot, so get yourselves prepared. More details to follow shortly.

As well as all this, the Cut editing lunches are still open to anyone who'd like to learn a wee bit of computer wizardry. Email Karoliina (pulkkinen.karoliina@hotmail.fi) if you're interested.

Avoiding Student Clichés workshop

As a joyous start to the year's Cut workshops, we bring you a short selection of the mistakes we've made, and how to avoid them.

We'll be covering a plethora of different aspects, from story to shooting to post-production.

25th October
7pm
Boyd Orr building, LRC room (fifth floor)

First Projects and Networking Night!

Roll up roll up and get ready for the very first Cut Filmmaking Project Night of the year! Bring a script, bring a concept, bring a skill, bring enthusiasm, bring you mates, and most importantly, bring banter of the finest variety.

Time is 7pm. Location is Tennent's Bar Basement - 191 Byres Road (the little door next to the main entrance with the stairs leading down).

See you all there!

One last thing... The films we made during the 48 hour competition are being uploaded to the Cut Vimeo account. Check it out.

Feshers 48hr Filmmaking Competition!

Hello freshers! It's that special time of year again. A time of magic, wonder, and the CUT! 48 hour filmmaking competition. Here's the plan...

Friday 16th September: Writing session in Boyd Orr building, room 506 at 4pm
Saturday 17th September: Filming day! (Probably 10am - 5pm)
Sunday 18th September: Editing day, and FREE screening party at Buff Club (8pm).

Join the facebook event for updates. And see you all there!

Some Mid-Summer Announcements!

Hola! I hope everybody's had a fantastic summer! It's been a while since the last announcement, but I guess Gala Night was so good it knocked us all for a loop for a few months. Congratulations to everyone involved, it truly was a special night, and the films have never been better. And speaking of such, you can now find several of the past year's films on the Watch Now page.

And of course, before Gala Night a new board was announced. A couple of positions have been reshuffled or rearranged, and it is as follows:-

President: Lucy Drury Secretary: Jim Entwistle Treasurer/Fundraiser: Ewan Fletcher Creative Director: Fiona Roberts Workshop Co-Ordinator: Karoliina Pulkkinen Events Co-Ordinator: Elise Davis-Keaveny Webmaster: Dick Mitic

Good luck to them all as we await a cracking new school year of Cut Filmmaking! Stay tuned for announcements about our first events of the 2011/12 calendar, including the Freshers Fair and the ever-popular 48 Hour Film Competition!

Gala Night Announcement

Drum roll! Our annual Gala Night will take place on Friday 20th May - less than a month away now! This year we shall be located at The Lighthouse, on Mitchell Lane just off Buchanan Street, with the customary afterparty at Buff Club - which is FREE ENTRY!

Filmmakers looking to submit their work to be shown at the event must fill out a submission form, to be handed in with their film at a suitable date. This form, along with further information regarding the event, can be found on our Gala Night page...

This has been Cut's best year yet, so let's make this year's Gala Night one to remember!

Cut are Most Innovating Society! Plus, Gala Night!

At the SRC Awards this month, Cut Filmmaking won the award for Most Innovative Society! Thanks to all who turned out for our great events this past year, such as "Glasgow, I Love You" and the Q&As with Patrick Doyle and Mark Millar, and contributed to our success!


Also, coming to you in late May, Cut's biggest, classiest event of the year: Gala Night! Gala Night is a screening of a selection of films made by Cut members over the year, as well as a chance to have a drink, network, and celebrate the end of the year! Dress is semi-formal - it's fun to pretend not to be a student at least once a year! So get filming/finish editing your films if you want to be in with a chance of getting screened at Gala! Details of the event are TBC at the moment, but we'll keep you posted!

Recent happenings, plus Patrick Doyle Q&A!

Thanks to all who attended Glasgow, I Love You and made it such a special event. It got a very warm write-up on the Film Festivsl website, which you can find here.

At the end of February we also had a Music/Soundtrack workshop (a review of which you can find here). Continuing a musical theme, we have another very special Q&A, this time with Oscar-nominated film composer Patrick Doyle on the 11th March. Patrick has a long-standing relationship with Ken Branagh, as well as scoring films such as Donnie Brasco, Gosford Park, and Bridget Jones' Diary. Details of the event can be found on our events page, as usual it is free, so come along and bring a friend!

Projects Night, plus "Glasgow, I Love You!"

Thanks to all who turned out for the Mark Millar Q&A and made it a fantastic night. This week, we have another of our Tuesday Project Nights in the Tennents Basement Bar, followed by another very special event on the Thursday, our "Glasgow, I Love You!" screening at the Art School, which will showcase a number of short films made around Glasgow, including by members of Cut. Not to be missed! Details of these are on our Events page.

Change of Venue for Mark Millar event,
plus Submissions for "Glasgow I Love You"

Due to expected high turnouts for the Mark Millar event, we have switched to a bigger venue - Room 1115 in the Adam Smith Building, 40 Bute Gardens. Take note of the change!

Also, Cut are taking film submissions for "Glasgow, I Love You", our upcoming event taking place during the Glasgow Film Festival. If you have a film to submit, email Cut at cutfilmmaking@gmail.com with details. Deadline for submissions is Thursday 10th February.

New films, Camera workshop, Mark Millar!!!

Thanks to all who came along to the 48 Hour Filmmaking Competition and made it such a brilliant event! All three films were of very high standard, and they will appear on the Watch Now page soon. In the meantime, you can find them on Cut's Vimeo channel.

Next week we have two big events, the first of which is our latest workshop, a camera class hosted by Desmond O'Hare from the BBC, who will run through everything you'd want to know, plus a few tips and tricks of the trade.

The following evening (a Cut event on a Wednesday?! Who'd have thunk it) we have a very exciting event lined up, a Q&A Session with Kick-Ass writer and producer Mark Millar, who will be answering all of your weird and wonderful questions. This event promises to be at full capacity, so get there early to get a seat! Details of both events are on our Events page.

Projects Night, 48 Hour Competition & Re-Freshers Party!

Welcome back everyone! Hope you all had a good Christmas and New Years. This Tuesday, Cut is hosting the first of our fortnightly Networking & Projects Nights for the new year! This is a great opportunity to network with other students interested in filmmaking in a strictly casual environment. Come and have a drink, look around people's upcoming projects, and chat with other filmmakers. As always, everyone is welcome, even if you aren't sure what area of filmmaking you'd like to try, or even if you don't want to get involved in a project quite yet.

Also, we are hosting another 48 Hour Film Competition next weekend, for anyone who missed it in Freshers Week, or for those who loved it so much they want another go! This is the first time we've had a second competition in the school year, so tell your friends, and help convince us we should be doing it every year!

As always, the competition weekend will finish with a Cut! Party at the Buff Club. As was our Freshers shindig, this Re-Freshers party is open to everyone, regardless of whether you took part in the competition, whether you've been to events before or if you've never attending anything vaguely Cut-related ever. Come for the cheap booze and tunes, stay for the cheap booze and tunes (and possibly the company).

Further details regarding all these events can be found on our Events page.

Cut! Party and Pirate Cinema!

Cutfilmmaking and Big Screen Glasgow are hosting a night celebrating student talent in film and video making. The event will take place on Tuesday 7th December in the Vic at Glasgow School of Art at 6pm, and is FREE and open to the public. There will be a large audience so this represents an unmissable opportunity to showcase your work. This event is planned as an informal screening, but we still encourage you to mingle and talk film as we've invited students from all Glasgow's universities and colleges so there will be lots of new blood for lots of new projects.

This will also double as Cut's end-of-semester party, so come along for the cheap booze and acceptable company before we all depart for Christmas!

"I Love Luci" Workshop!

The director and lead actor of the multi-award-winning Glaswegian comedy short film ‘I Love Luci’ are coming to speak to CUT! The film has done brilliantly on the international film festival circuit; London, Rome, Valencia, Lisbon, Bratislava, somewhere in Russia, to name but a few! Click here to check out the trailer.

Colin Kennedy (director) and Colin Harris (lead actor) will screen their film (time and location details on our Events page) and then take us through the whole filmmaking process, from conceiving the idea to location scouting, blocking scenes, camera angles, distribution and everything in between! They will be taking your questions after, so be ready to pick their brains. This will be a great opportunity to hear from world class short filmmakers, so don’t miss out!

As with all CUT events, it’s free and all are welcome!

Sound Workshop, plus Website Changes!

Cut is hosting another amazing and free workshop. This sound workshop will be hosted by the lovely and amazing Jim Hunter who has had many years of experience working for the BBC! He will go over the basics of different kinds of sound, types of recording, and types of microphones. As always, people of all levels of experience are welcome! So come along and bring a friend and learn how to SOUND amazing and make your films sound good too!

Also, you may have noticed several changes to the website. Our Photos page is rather self-explanatory, it contains snaps of previous Cut events; and our Outreach page showcases the projects Cut have made in conjuction with outside organisations to promote worthwhile causes. Many new films have also gone up on the Watch Now page, so er... watch them, now!

The Projects section of the website can now be found on the forum, where you can post your own projects yourself rather than have to send them to us!

Change of Venue for Next Project Night

This week will see the next Networking & Project Night rather than a workshop, as we have big plans for the last couple of weeks! However, it shall not be hosted in the Tennents Basement Bar this week, but will be in the room at the back of the Old Schoolhouse (formerly The Primary) at the university end of Woodlands Road (just across the street from the St Andrew's Building). The start time is back to being 7pm, and last week's visiting producer Julian Dismore will be in attendance again with copies of his new book for anyone who wants to learn the ins and outs of being a TV producer. See you all there!

Projects Night, and Talk from TV Producer Julian Dismore

At 8pm Cut will be hosting our Networking & Projects Night in the Tennents Pub Basement. Come along with an idea or a script, or just come for a drink and a chat and a nosey round upcoming projects. We're starting a bit later because we encourage you to attend this talk at 6.30, Boyd Orr Building, Lecture Theatre A:

TV producer, Julian Dismore, is doing a talk called 'TV: Getting In and Getting On!' for all of you interested in pursuing a career in television and/or the creative industries. The event is being organized by the Careers Service and they would like you to register for the event if you intend to go. (www.gla.ac.uk/careers), click on 'Jobs & Events', log in and register for the event. See you then!

Cut and GUST Ceilidh!

Cut and GUST are hosting a fundraising ceilidh in the GUU Dining Room on Thursday 11th November at 7PM in order to progress towards mutual camera repair! There will be dancing, drinking and just a fun time all round, so get your tickets now! Get them from the SRC for £4, or on the door on the night for £5. Hope to see everyone there!

Directing of Photography Workshop!

This week we shall be presenting the Directing of Photography workshop, with Cut and GUST veteran Darren Eggenschwiler taking us through the ins and outs of budget cinematography, from camera operating, lighting, shot composition, film crews, budget 3D filming (!) and much much more. As always, this workshop is free, and will be at 7pm this Tuesday, in Room 407 (Lecture Theatre A) in the Boyd Orr Building (maps and further information can be found on the Events page). Hope to see you all there!

3rd Networking & Projects Night!

Details of our next Networking & Projects Night are up on the Events page, again in Tennents Basement bar. Come along, have a pint, have a chat!

Again, anyone can bring along a script or even just general outline of a project they are thinking of making, but if you'd like to alert us about it, or maybe just seek advice before the event, email Cut with the details of the project.

See you all there!

Make-up and Prosthetics Workshop!

Our next workshop of the year is for Make-Up and Prosthetics, and will be hosted by the very talented James Clark, who will be demonstrating how to apply fake cuts, bruises and more! This is a very hands-on workshop, and unfortunately we can't accomodate a massive lecture hall so the workshop is being split into two hour-long practical sessions, with 40 places in total (20 in each hour). You can sign up for a place through the Facebook event for the workshop, though there are very limited places left as the workshop has proven popular in the past!

If you do miss out on this workshop, don't worry - we'll be having another one next semester, so you'll get another shot at it very soon!

Screenwriting Workshop

Our second workshop of the semester will be Screenwriting - after all, a film's got to begin somewhere! It will take place in Lecture Theatre 718 in the Adam Smith Building. We're also very happy to announce that the workshop will be taken by Eleanor Yule, who has been been nominated for a BAFTA and won the jury award at the Celtic Film and Television Festival in 2004. This promises to be a very interesting evening, and we hope to see you there!

Forum Launch!

Thanks to everyone who attended our first Projects Night of the year, we hope you all enjoyed it and signed up for all the scripts!

We mentioned on the night that we were launching a Cut forum, and I'm happy to announce it is now online! You can go there via the navigation above. Its purpose is to act as a filmmaking Gumtree, if you like - providing an online bulletin board for budding filmmakers to seek out others to assist in making their movies, and for those with a wealth of experience in filmmaking to offer their services.

There is also a Film Therapy section, where you can ask questions about filmmaking, or discuss more specific difficulties you've been having. There's bound to be someone who will be able to answer your question!

Anyone can access the forum and read posts, but in order to create posts you will need to register - this only takes a minute and stops spambots from filling the board with junk. So get registered, get posting, and help expand the Cut network!

ENTER THE FORUM

Networking and Project Night #1

Thanks to everyone who came along to the workshop last week, what an amazing turnout! Hopefully a good number of you will be attending our very first Networking and Project Night in the Tennents Bar basement on Byres Road. This is a great opportunity to network with other students interested in filmmaking in a strictly casual environment. Come and have a drink, look around people's upcoming projects, and chat with other filmmakers. No filmmaking experience is required; everyone is welcome.

If you have a project that you're trying to get off the ground, then bring it along and get people interested and find the right talent! Your project doesn't have to be fully formed, it can just be an idea you've had. If you could e-mail Cut with the name of the project by Tuesday morning then Martin, our Creative Director, can make you a wee sign and allocate you an area in the pub.

Note that this event takes place in the basement room of the bar. Hopefully it is easy enough to find, and we shall see you all there!

IMPORTANT - Workshop Time Tomorrow

The time for the Fundamentals of Filmmaking Workshop tomorrow on the Events page has been wrong for the past week - it starts at 6pm, not 7pm. It's been duly changed and I hope those who are thinking of attending read this before tomorrow night. Sorry!

On a better note, thank you to everyone who attended our events in Freshers Week! We had much success on our Freshers Fair stall, signing up over 200 new members, and winning an award for Most Attention Grabbing Stall! On top of that, the 48 Hour Competition was especially popular this year, and the two brilliant films it produced were very well received at the party last night at the Buff Club. I hope you all enjoyed yourselves, and hopefully we'll see you on Tuesday (and beyond)!

Freshers Week... And Beyond!

To all new students at Glasgow University, welcome! To all returning students, I'm deeply sorry. Oh, and welcome back, of course. Freshers Week is just around the corner, and a what a week we have in store for you...

• Come and visit us at the Freshers Fair to chat about filmmaking and sample our delicious Cut! cakes and Cut!stard creams!
• See a selection of our best films from the past couple of years in the Gilmorehill!
• As always, take part in our ever-popular 48 Hour Film Competition...
• And finally, have a mighty night of dancing and drinking at our Freshers Party!

More details can be found on our Events page, so do check it out, and we hope to see you soon!

Gala Night, and New Board

A bit belated in saying so, but thank you everyone who turned out for Gala Night, it was a very successful night with plenty of great films on show, and a fantastic night was had by all. You can already watch The Drudgefish online, and many of the other films from the night will be appearing on the website in due course. Hope to see you all next year too!

Also in May, Cut elected a new board, with some new faces, some old faces, and the newly created position of Fundraising Directors. The new board is as follows:-

President: Ian Robertson Secretary: Lucy Drury Treasurer: Hannah Sanderson Creative Director: Martin Heron Workshop Co-Ordinator: Erika Silverman Events Co-Ordinator: Jule Rozite Fundraising: Annie Ward & Dominic Smith

Good luck to the new board for the upcoming year!

Gala Night! Order your tickets now!

Hey everyone, hope exam study is going well. Just to let you know that you can now order tickets for our Gala Night on the 26th of May, click the banner above to read a bit about the event and fill out the revelant form. You can buy multiple tickets, so invite all your mates!

First Project Night of the New Year!

Hey folks, hope everyone had a brilliant Christmas and New Year! Cut are back on Tuesday the 19th of January at 7pm with one of our regular project nights in the Uisge Beatha.
Again, you can come along even if you don't want to get involved with a film just yet - come down, have a drink and a bit of a chat. All welcome, even if you aren't sure what area of filmmaking you'd like to try.
Hope to see you there! Bring a friend!

Next Project Night!

The next project night will take place at the usual time and location, this coming Tuesday (17th Nov). More details can be found on the Events page.

Also, just to remind members - if you have a script, whether it's completed or still a work in progress, don't hesitate to bring it along and let everyone have a look and give you feedback. And as always, email Martin with your script attached if you'd like it to appear on the Projects page.

Directing Actors Workshop - POSTPONED

The Directing Actors workshop will not be taking place this Tuesday (the 3rd November) but will be postponed a week until the Tues 10th.

The time and location of this workshop is still to be confirmed, but details should be sent out in the next Cut! newsletter.

Scriptwriting Workshop - CHANGE OF VENUE

Please note that the Scriptwriting workshop this Thursday at 6:30pm will now be taking place in LECTURE THEATRE C in the BOYD ORR building and not the St. Andrew's Building as previously advertised.

If you don't yet know where the Boyd Orr Building is, click here for a map. It's number D1 on the map, and access to the building is possible from University Avenue as well as University Gardens (opposite the QM Union / Computing Science building).

See you there!

The German Porn Project - Online!

Whoever Speaks The Truth, Or: The German Porn Project, one of our 48 Hour films, can now be viewed on the website via the Watch Now and Projects page. It is also available on Youtube.

Enjoy!

First Workshop - Scriptwriting

The first Cut! workshop of the year is fast approaching - come and join us this Thursday, the 8th of October, as we start at the very beginning of the filmmaking process and learn about the fine art of Scriptwriting. No experience is needed to attend any of our workshops, so pop along even if you've never written before and have some word-based fun with us.

The workshop will be at 6:30pm at the St. Andrew's Building - there will be a notice at the entrance of the building to say which room the workshop will be held in when you arrive. If you don't yet know where the St. Andrew's Building is, never fear, here's a map. It's number E14 on Eldon Street, opposite the Primary and near to Uisge Beatha.

See you on Thursday!

First Project Night!

Firstly, thanks to all who participated in the 48 Hour Film Competition, it was great fun to make and both of the films looked really good.

Our first monthly Project Night will be at 7pm on next Tuesday 29th September at the lovely Uisge Beatha on Woodlands Road. There should be a few scripts on show, but even if you're not looking to get involved in a film yet, come along anyway, have a drink, and get to know some new people!

Update - 48 Hour Friday Writing Session

The location of the 2pm-5pm Friday writing session for the 48 Hour Film Competition will be Lecture Theatre E in the Boyd Orr Building (entrances on University Avenue and beside the QMU). Hope to see you there!

Freshers Week

Summer's over, and Freshers Week is just around the corner! We have a lot planned for this week....

Tuesday 15th & Wednesday 16th, 10am-4pm:

Freshers Fair! Our stall looks superb this year, so come and find us in the Bute Hall to become a member, get info about upcoming events and ask us any questions. Get there before the cake runs out.

Friday 18th & Saturday 19th:

The 48-Hour Filmmaking Project will run from Friday afternoon across the weekend, leading up to a showing of the films and a party at Buff Club on Sunday night. We'll be making quick, short films in groups - the project is a chance to immediately get stuck in with learning how the filmmaking process works, while meeting new people and having fun at the same time!

We will meet 2pm-5pm on Friday (location TBC) for a group writing session to create our scripts, then get together on Saturday to film during the day around the West End and edit our footage in the evening. If you have any questions send us an email or come and ask us at the Freshers Fair.

Sunday 20th, 8pm:

We will have a screening of the 48-Hour Project films, as well as some of the movies we made last year, and a post-Freshers Week Cut! party at Buff Club. Entrance to the club is via The Butterfly and the Pig pub on Bath Street (http://www.thebutterflyandthepig.com/) and the event is free. Doors at 8pm, films shortly after, then we get Buff Club to ourselves til the main clubnight starts at 11pm (note - no under 18s will be allowed in the club once the main clubnight starts, and anyone arriving after 11pm will have to pay to get in). There will be cheap drinks offers especially for us, so come and drink, chat and have a bit of a dance. All are welcome and if you want to become a member you can do that on the night as well.

Welcome to the site!

Welcome to the newly designed Cut! website. Everything available on this site can be navigated to via the links below the main logo.

One thing I do have to say, the site was designed with Firefox, and therefore it's slightly tailored for that browser. It'll still work in Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari and all the other browsers, of course, but some parts of the site might be slightly out of place with browsers other than Firefox, so I'd recommend downloading Firefox for the best Cut! website experience. :-)

Also, if you find any bugs or glitches within the site, email me at martin@cutfilmmaking.com and I'll get it fixed asap.

Other than those minor quibbles, the site is good to go. Enjoy!