Northern Lights Film Festival

Jaimie and Thompson from the second year have been given the opportunity to compete against Cravens, a local advertising agency, in the Northern Lights Film Festival www.nlff.co.uk. The Northern Lights is a festival designed to celebrate the skills of film makers from the North of England in particular, but is open to anyone interested. Both creative teams were asked to design a tv and poster campaign designed to attract a Film Director into using Whitley Bay as part of a film set.

Jaimie and Thompson came up with the idea creating a film of their own, showing off all the sights but deliberatley badly shot and written, trying to show that they had everything you needed in Whitley apart from the crew.

I'm including this in my blog as Jaimie and Thompson asked me to help out in the production, it was a good laugh, and we had a lot of fun making it. Though I feel admitting to this might be a bad idea, but I was responsible for all the bad photography and filmography, which as a photographer doesn't look good.

But despite my best efforts to look bad I was conscripted by Northern Lights as the official photographer.

At the event at the Baltic around 50 people showed, we were supplied with free tea and coffee from Ringtons the official sponsor.

Jaimie and Thompsons idea went down really well and actually won the competition



Jaimie and Thompson being Interviewed




Jaimie and Thompson with their trophy