Potters Bar FilmMakers Internal Competitions
Each year the club runs competitions between members where each member is free to enter a film of their making. Our annual programme usually falls into the following competition headings:
Open Competition. (a film on any topic)
Film to a record or poem.
Documentary
Variable Subject (a different subject is selected each year)
Holiday Competition
Entries are broken down into Graduate and Advanced, where Graduate is a member that has not won that category of film in the past and Advanced is someone that has. This gives our new or inexperienced members encouragement and an opportunity to compete without pitching their films up against members that have a lot more experience.
The films are judged by all club members with the exception that the film maker cannot score their own film. Scoring is award on marks out of 30 for appeal, 20 for each of photography, sound and editing plus marks out of 10 for titles. These are totalled and the average worked out. The winners in each section (Graduate or Advanced) are the film makers with the highest average score.
Points for each film are awarded according to their position and these are then aggregated over the year and the overall winner becomes the Film Maker of the Year.
Open Competition. (a film on any topic)
Film to a record or poem.
Documentary
Variable Subject (a different subject is selected each year)
Holiday Competition
Entries are broken down into Graduate and Advanced, where Graduate is a member that has not won that category of film in the past and Advanced is someone that has. This gives our new or inexperienced members encouragement and an opportunity to compete without pitching their films up against members that have a lot more experience.
The films are judged by all club members with the exception that the film maker cannot score their own film. Scoring is award on marks out of 30 for appeal, 20 for each of photography, sound and editing plus marks out of 10 for titles. These are totalled and the average worked out. The winners in each section (Graduate or Advanced) are the film makers with the highest average score.
Points for each film are awarded according to their position and these are then aggregated over the year and the overall winner becomes the Film Maker of the Year.
