Your chance to be on the big screen
The Bath Chronicle in conjunction with the LoveBath short film competition is creating an advert to be shown in the Little Theatre promoting the contest.
Do you fancy being an extra? All you have to do is sit in the Little Theatre in the city centre for a few hours tomorrow playing the part of a bored audience member. Your face could be seen in a trailer to be shown at the cinema before the films start.
Please arrive at the Little for 10am sharp tomorrow (Friday). We should be finished with the majority of extras by 11am.
Invite your friends and family - the first 50 to the cinema will be used as extras.
Meanwhile, The Bath Chronicle's exciting new competition to give local people the chance to make a short film to showcase the area is now up and running.
Last week we unveiled details of the LoveBath short film competition which invites people to make a film of no more than two minutes and 50 seconds which encapsulates any facet of life in and around Bath and north east Somerset.
The competition has been arranged as part of The Bath Chronicle's 250-year anniversary and therefore there will be a £250 cash prize for the winning entrant.
Details about how you can get involved in the competition are available on our special dedicated website at www.thisisbath.co.uk/lovebath.
There you will find not only all the rules about how to enter but also some guidelines about scripts and the sort of film you may like to make
The contest has been organised between the Little – which will screen our shortlisted films at a special event in November – the Bath and North East Somerset Council's Film Office, the City of Bath College and the Bath Film Festival alongside ourselves here at the Chronicle.
Chronicle editor Sam Holliday said he hoped that people were already starting to formulate their plans for the competition.
"The closing date for our contest is October 21 which means people have just a matter of a few weeks to think about their story, start scripting it and then getting down to the serious business of shooting and editing their work.
"We feel this is a really exciting and innovative competition and we can't wait to see the entries come in because we know that Bath and north east Somerset is an area full of ideas and it will be excellent to see them come to life," he said.
Comments
by Jonathan Stuart-brown, West Midlands
Thursday, September 02 2010, 6:34PM
“Bath could and should be a major film industry centre and the local council should get on with this because of the thousands of jobs and marketing value it will give to your geat city. What Bath needs is sound stages, glorified warehouses. There are only 44 to speak of in The UK and they are the magnet which draw in Hollywood Big Budget tentpole movies which require glorified sound proof warehouses. You can have two on just 4 acres of land but ideally 10 acres and above would give you 4-6 sound stages and at least put you on a par with Elstree Studios in Hertsmere Borough council (population almost identical to Bath). Elstree is booked out by Hollywood Studios for two years and has just told ITV..sorry you can not book us for 'Dancing on Ice'. Bath has the magnificent Roman Baths, the historic period houses, the magnificent restaurants. It could be a real turbo charge to the tourist trade to reach new heights. It will bless The University and hotels. Bath should stop playing about with short films and plunge in with a major infrastructure of 6 sound stages. Surely you would welcome Johnny Depp and Pirates of the Caribbean, Robert Downey Jnr and Sherlock Holmes filming 100 miles east along the M4 at Pinewood Studios but who could be in your city within 12 months ? Every business will benefit. Local creative talent and blue collar workers such as electricians, chippies, security, painters, will always be in work. Please support The Save The British Film Industry campaign to regenerate the nation by these type of initiatives. Creativity and tourism is how we can get ourselves out of the national debt causing nurses to lose jobs. Bath could also build state of the art sets such as Paris, ancient Rome, Biblical Jerusalem, Venice, Amsterdam, New York, Florence, Pyramids, Sci-fi, spaceships, jungle, Moscow, Mumbai, beijing, Tokyo, Berlin and grab much more film and TV inward investment, glamour, jobs, feelgood, and international profile. These can double as tourist attractions and you could even get a film theme park such as Disney and Universal. Bath is a truly magnificent outstanding city with fabulous people and it is time to invest in your future as well as trade on your past.
Jonathan Stuart-Brown
www.savethebritishfilmindustry.com”