Katie Griffith
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A Life Time Hobby 10 minute version featuring Pendon Museum
This is my feature film I filmed, edited and produced for my Journalism degree course at the University of Lincoln.
This film has been awarded the BBC Look North Award for TV Journalism 2013, by David Jennings, Head of regional and local programmes for East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
David Jennings commented:
"All the films were judged on the criteria of originality, story-telling, production quality and broadcast potential. I took into account under the last heading how likely a broadcaster would be to regard the film as transmittable without further work or development.
"In a close decision, Katie's film scored best across the four criteria, most notably "broadcast potential". The film was beautifully observed, and Katie demonstrated brilliantly the film-maker's art of making the camera invisible.
Her subjects clearly trusted her and found it easy just to be themselves. The result was a truly charming portrait of a pastime that a lesser producer might turned into an easy caricature. We learned much about the people, about an aspect of social history, and about how the hobby is helping to preserve a vanishing way of life."
So what is the film all about?
Modelling is a hobby which unfortunately comes with a stereotype, none more notable than that of the rail enthusiast. Whilst some think the hobby is dull and those involved are old men who share a love of anoraks, I wanted to show what a highly skilled hobby modelling really is and the importance of preserving Britain's heritage, one railway at a time.
From a county level railway club, to enthusiasts homes, I was welcomed in to capture a piece of preservation in the making. I gained access to Britain's largest railway model landscape Pendon Museum's Vale of the White Horse scene which can be exhibited in Didcot, Oxfordshire.
This film tells the tale of a boys childhood toy and how that toy captures their imagination and carries them on a journey into adulthood. A Life Time Hobby proves that railway modelling is more than a hobby, an obsession, it's an escapism from every day life for a man who's lost his son, it's a social club for a man who's lost his wife and it's a hobby with a purpose, recreating something that time has altered, dismantled or changed.
I hope you enjoy my work, please do feel free to leave a comment if you wish to do so.
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  • @monumentstosuffering2995
    @monumentstosuffering2995 2 роки тому

    Lovely.

  • @PendonMuseumVideos
    @PendonMuseumVideos 3 роки тому

    A great glimpse of ‘life at Pendon’. Thank you and we hope to see you back in the museum one day.

    • @katiegriffith1066
      @katiegriffith1066 3 роки тому

      Eight years and I now have a little boy of my own who I can't wait to show Pendon too one day. I loved this project.

    • @PendonMuseumVideos
      @PendonMuseumVideos 3 роки тому

      @@katiegriffith1066 and we look forward to seeing you both in the (not too distant) future.

  • @garybooth
    @garybooth 3 роки тому

    A lovely little film. I hope you got an excellent degree result! 8 years ago - must seem a long way back to you now, and here's me just finding your film for the first time. The strangeness of the internet. Going to check out the 10-minute version now...

    • @katiegriffith1066
      @katiegriffith1066 3 роки тому

      Yes certainly does seem like a long time ago. Now I have a little boy who i can't wait to be old enough to visit Pendon....oh and yes I got a first class degree! Thank you for watching.

    • @garybooth
      @garybooth 3 роки тому

      @@katiegriffith1066 Congratulations on both!

  • @marciebalme588
    @marciebalme588 3 роки тому

    excellent work

  • @susannestoffel2534
    @susannestoffel2534 3 роки тому

    Very nice and detailed Layout!I like it!Please Mode of this!

  • @franktuckwell196
    @franktuckwell196 3 роки тому

    Absolutely marvellous!!

  • @IanP1963
    @IanP1963 5 років тому

    Well done Katie !!!

  • @IanP1963
    @IanP1963 5 років тому

    October 2019 will be the tenth anniversary - may he RIP !!!!

  • @caahacky
    @caahacky 5 років тому

    Excellent straightforward and informative presentation. The choice of music was just right. It would have been so easy to display some sort of "agenda" or opinion on the subject but you let us the viewer do that ourselves. I hope you have gone on to have a rewarding career and have the space to apply the same approach.

  • @MrDavil43
    @MrDavil43 6 років тому

    Just found this lovely film. Now in my 70's, I have returned to railway modelling after a break of twenty+ years. And it is the perfect antidote to all the pro and anti Brexit bile consuming this country. Creating a little world set in the "secure" past is so therapeutic. It gives me new friendships, a need for historical research, the impetus to develop skills in carpentry, electronics, scenery and railway operation from the past. And a space away from the demands of a family (occasionally!)

  • @lunamonsta5059
    @lunamonsta5059 6 років тому

    My heart goes out to the Adams family. My father was murdered in almost the same way. He was viciously beaten, multiply stabbed and thrown over the freeway pass, onto the freeway where 4 cars ran him over, with the 5 throwing him 30 feet in the air. When my dad landed he finally got his peace. All over money, that the criminls thought he had after a pay day. 3 individuals did this awful things to my father. Not sure why I felt like writing this after so long but can't help but feel connected to Adams family ( do to the graphic nature of these awful events) Because I know what they are going threw. My heart goes out to all the family and good friends. God Bless Adam & my father Mario. Thank you Katie for this important video. I hope and pray these animals get caught soon with the help of this video.

    • @IanP1963
      @IanP1963 5 років тому

      Adam ? Don't you mean Alan ?

  • @Lennon6412
    @Lennon6412 7 років тому

    This is really interesting, thanks for making it!

  • @bluebellModelrailway
    @bluebellModelrailway 8 років тому

    great video / documentary always enjoyed visiting Pendon visited and done my own videos.

  • @Timsvideochannel1
    @Timsvideochannel1 10 років тому

    Great model railway, nicely presented video .... Tim

  • @stevie65able
    @stevie65able 10 років тому

    Really good interviews. Well done!

  • @stevie65able
    @stevie65able 10 років тому

    Dear Katie, this is an absolutely spot on video of the model train hobby that so many of us enjoy. As someone who works in the hobby on the retail side, you have nailed it. Cheers from Melbourne, Australia.

  • @katiegriffith1066
    @katiegriffith1066 11 років тому

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    @katiegriffith1066 11 років тому

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