Sawston Cinema Archive Project

Yesterday was the last meeting of the Cinema Archive project before the end of term, though we will probably do some filming at the screening of MAMMA MIA! next week to use in our film. While some of the group were helping Peter Harmer film members of the Sawston community, the rest of us worked [...]

Hello, today we learnt how to edit our film. The film consited of many of people acting out older residents’ memories of the cinema. We learnt how to cut and change parts of the film, by using adobe premiere software. The new equipment we have learnt to use will enable us to make professional looking films and footage in the very near [...]

As part of our work on the archive project we have been researching the history of the cinema in Sawston. We found a web page that has a lot of information – you can read it here – and it says The tradition of the benevolent employer was continued in the 20th century by H. [...]

We’ve got our new website and you’re looking at it… [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

Today we worked on website designs with Bill Thompson. We looked at existing websites to see which features we would like on our website. We then drew up some designs and presented these to the group. Some of the suggestions for the ‘about this site’ were: We are a group of students from Sawston Village [...]