Yes, that's right, our project is now officially done! We've hit all of our milestones that we set out to achieve in this crowdfunding campaign and now you get to read all about it in our project report. Simply go to our Spacehive project page and click the icon next to our project report milestone and you'll get to see the impact you've made as a backer of this project. And, as promised, here's a link to our video about Newcastle Film Club. We hope it makes you smile! https://youtu.be/sH_mEOGeRZo So, what's next? Well, our next project is updating our kit hire system. Currently we're using Google Forms in order to rent out equipment to our community (which is a pretty manual task at the moment). We're going to be updating to a more streamlined site in the coming month with the aim to have members and the community able to start using the new kit on their own projects at the start of the new year. We're also adding a new Leadership Role to continue the work we've done with this project here. The Education Officer will look to continue workshops and training around the kit we have and look to upskill the community throughout the year. If you like the work we do and want to get involved in any leadership position, we highly encourage you to check out the leadership roles on our website here as our Annual General Meeting is coming up in January - https://www.newcastlefilmclub.co.uk/agmballot We encourage you to follow us on social media to keep up to date on the work we're doing and ways to get involved. Thank you one last time for your support throughout this project. That's it from us, keep on collaborating and creating wherever you are!

Last Sunday we spent about 5 hours shooting our 3 minute film about Newcastle Film Club which we are excited to show you the final product. Here's a picture of everyone that came out to join us for the big final shot of the film. The next update you hear from us will be with a link to view the video! :D

Good Evening, Afternoon or Morning (depending on where you're at in the world). Yesterday marked the very last workshops for this project and wow - we had such a great turn out! We will give more of an update once we've had time to process all of the feedback and numbers from all of the workshops but it was great to see people of all ages, backgrounds and interest in filmmaking come to the workshops we hosted. The picture for this week was taken at our second editing workshop where participants worked with footage from our first short film that we made as a club, 'A Letter to Elizabeth' which you can watch here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvMgSgBFjFs Next up, we go into pre-production for our final part of this project, the film about Newcastle Film Club made using the new equipment. We'll be looking to shoot and edit this film in November and in the meantime, the new kit will be put to good use helping our members to complete our club film 'The Shedding' which you can find out more about here - https://www.newcastlefilmclub.co.uk/theshedding Until the next update, stay creative!

So far we've had 2 workshops - A Cameras Workshop and a Sound Workshop. Both workshops have been attended by 8 people at each session (the ticket limit is 12 so as to keep groups small) and we're thrilled with how things have been going so far. But what have people said from the sessions? "Terrific workshop. I’m enjoying the more in-depth approach" - Sound Workshop Participant "Practical demos – always really helpful to see instructions happening at the same time" - Sound Workshop Participant "I particularly found the session on operating the camera the most useful. The explanations were all very clear and it was great to be able to try using the camera ourselves." -Camera Workshop Participant "Great workshops, thank you!" -Camera Workshop Participant The picture for this update is from the camera workshop we ran. You can see the new camera being shown off on the monitor! Next weekend we have our first editing workshop and another sound workshop on the same day! It'll be a long day but we're excited to see how much people learn. Thank you again for your support for this project!

We are excited to announce that our workshops to teach people how to use the new kit that we've purchased as part of this project are now all confirmed. Workshop facilitators have all be contacted and are getting ready to teach people how to use the new kit! We are hoping with these workshops we're hoping members, old and new, to our community will be able to upskill themselves on how to use different cameras, sound and editing equipment. We have limited number of seats for each workshop to keep numbers small and hope that we can in the future put more workshops on because it's so important to teach people how to use and take care of this kit that we've purchased. If you're interested in having a go at the new equipment and upskilling, check out all of the workshops and register here - https://www.newcastlefilmclub.co.uk/spacehiveworkshops

We had a great time last week unboxing all of the new kit that we purchased as part of this project. If you missed the live stream, you can go back and watch it here - https://www.youtube.com/live/_pgxUy7pPr8?si=AewOvDXoYYHm-JCE&t=450 As part of that whole day, we updated our inventory and re-labled all of our existing kit as we will be setting up a new way for members and people to rent out the equipment (more details to come!) When we bought some of the products like the laptops, they were on sale! So we've been able to use some of the funds to get additional accessories like laptop mouse, headphones and bags to hold each laptop setup. So now, when people need to rent a laptop, they have literally everything they need to jump in and start editing!! That's it for this week, see you soon!

Hey backers! We are so excited because tomorrow we are going to go live over on our YouTube channel and Instagram page at 1pm - 3pm GMT to bring to you a Livestream of our leadership team opening up the new kit that we purchased as part of our project. Drop in to see what we got, hear how it can be used and of course, tell us what you're looking forward to making or seeing with the new equipment! It's going to be a really fun stream where we're going to thank all of you wonderful people throughout the stream (so do stop by and say hello!) and we're looking forward to unboxing all of the new kit! Get a notification for tomorrow's stream by going to this link and clicking the 'Notify Me' button - https://www.youtube.com/live/_pgxUy7pPr8?si=Av3_Qicw664jlroQ We hope to see you tomorrow!