Tea Making Tips (1941)
Welcome to the world of a national obsession and a place where people say ‘orf’ instead of ‘off’. Tea connoisseurs will benefit from the six golden tips for making the perfect cuppa, as well as countless other handy hints (never store your tea next to cheese, for example). There’s an assessment of the pros and cons of various teapots and words of wisdom about the tea bush itself. Slightly grotesque methods for producing tea en masse are demonstrated – it was wartime, after all – and tea had to be produced by the oceanful. As such, there are some top tips for cleaning that hard-to-reach tap in your tea urn. Remember: “a dirty tap means dirty tea”. (Robin Baker) You can watch over 1000 other complete films and TV programmes from the BFI National Archive free of charge in the Mediatheque at BFI Southbank, London and from October 2008 at the new QUAD centre for art and film in Derby — www.bfi.org.uk www.derbyquad.co.uk
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Filmmaker Mat Whitecross shares his top filming tips and shows how you can make someone fly in your videos. Get hold of any filming gear, like a handycam or a camera mobile phone, and hit record. Transcript: Hi, my name is Mat Whitecross. I’m a film-maker, director, editor, cameraman. I come up with ideas, I go out to a location and shoot them with a crew and we come back into the studio and edit them. I was obsessed with making films from a very early age and when I finished college, I went to work for a local TV station. Then I came to London and started making cups of tea for famous people, being a runner. After a while I started working on films, as an editor. I do this because it’s creative, it’s exciting, it’s fun and you meet different people every day. Every single day is different, and you get to tell stories the way you want to tell them. Filming Demos Get a strong story, good idea and be original. Once you’ve got your idea the best thing to do is prepare yourself for the shoot, and the best way to do that is to draw a storyboard. You don’t have to be a great artist, just get the pen out and start drawing an idea of what you’re going to do with each shot. Once you’ve got your storyboard, you need to go out and find a place to shoot it, find your location. The best thing to do is to try and find somewhere that’s slightly out of the way, so you’re not in other people’s way. Also, find somewhere that’s quiet. Once you’re on set, the main thing is to be able to …
Video Rating: 4 / 5
