We closed our last season with the AGM, and as we held it before the screening everyone kept it pretty short. The good news is that we are still solvent, but the bad news is that we have been dependent on external grants to purchase the big ticket items like projector and sound system, and in the current age of austerity I do not think that the local auythority will look kindly on a grant application to upgrade/replace the kit.
We made money on most of our Thursday screenings, but for many of our Sunday screeenings the audience was solely committee members and family members. The other major source of revenue is the bar, and it is clear that our audience is generally thirsty. I was only half-joking when I suggested that we sould set ourselves up as a Wine Club that also screens films.
It's difficult to coerce people into attending, but we intend to harness the power of the internet to send out reminders to members - or at least to those of our members have email access - and also intend to run a raffle for our "free" introductory film. We agreed to have DVDs as prices and I volunteered to find something appropriate for the good folk of Highclere: after a quick trawl through Amazon I bought a box set of Billy Wilder films (including Some Like It Hot - which I saw many years ago on the big screen at the PPP while at Oxford) and another set starring Orson Welles (including The Third Man).
My plan is to blog for the full season and to intersperse updates on our progress with the notes that I prepare for each screening. Hopefully our choice of Up In The Air will get the season off to a good start.
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