Electric dreams
The Creative Networks event at tic last night saw Tom Lawes in great form talking about his life and career as musician, composer, sound designer, film producer and more recently cinema owner. His experiences over the last four years of refurbishing, relaunching and developing the Electric Cinema provide a great example of what you can do through sheer determination, hard work and creative enterprise. Tom is up for Outstanding Business Development at the Birmingham Creative City Awards tomorrow. If he doesn’t win I’ll be very surprised. Hats off to you Tom.
Also at the event were Chris Pinches and Huw Bowen from Coventry-based Entanglement Productions, promoting their low-budget sci-fi thriller Schrodinger’s Girl. They demonstrated some great SFX using ‘before’ and ‘after’ footage of the same scene. If they could work some of their techniques into a simple workshop package I’m sure it would go down a storm in local schools and colleges. Anyway, here’s the trailer from the film. Good luck lads.
Tags: Creative Networks, electric cinema, tic
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November 28, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Thanks for the kind words and the link to the trailer.
I enjoyed Tom’s talk too – I had not realised the Electric was the oldest (working) cinema in the UK. In the fullness of time I would like to organise a screening of Schrodinger’s Girl on his digital screen,
Chris