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!

All of our kit has arrived! It's hard to believe that so much can happen within a month but here we are! In the month of June we've: ✔️ Completed the crowdfunding portion of our project (thanks to you lovely backers) ✔️ Purchased all of the new kit we set out in our project to get (new kit is in the brown boxes in picture above!) ✔️ Moved all of the existing and new kit to our new storage space (which is all of the gear you see in the picture!) ✔️ Hosted a workshop with our members to begin the idea process for our video about Newcastle Film Club that we'll be making with the new kit later this year! You can read some of the crazy, wacky and wonderful ideas members came up with here and add your own if you want to get involved and help! - https://newcastlefilmclub.ihub.app/posts/11851/spacehive-project-ideas This upcoming month we're going to: 💡 Continue brainstorming ideas for our community film ✏️ Re-label and inventory our entire community kit library 💻 Start familiarizing ourselves with our brand new kit 📅 Start designing & organising the workshops surrounding how to use the new kit That's it for now! See you soon!

WOOOO!!! Thank you to everyone who's joined us on this journey so far! We've now reached our initial goal and for the last few hours of our campaign are in 'Overfunding' mode which means anything else raised between now and midnight goes towards our extra goals that will further help our project which are: - Contingency for the project to protect against price fluctuation - Canon Mount Adapter EF to EOS R (so more people can use this camera with lenses they may own) - DJI RS 3 Pro Combo, 3-Axis Gimbal Stabilizer (a gimbal that works with an already existing piece of kit we have as a club!) Thank you for believing in our project and supporting our community!