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Andelain Films is a not-for-profit film production organization based in Reading, UK, producing short films for showing on YouTube and entering into local competitions, as a part of Reading Film and Video Makers.
See all films below or check out these categories:
- Animation films
- Films made using webcams
- Films made with external actors
- Documentary films
- Films made with RFVM actors
Or browse by length:
And some Personal Awards.
I've made 43 films with a total length of 3 hours and 3 minutes.
Film | Image | Description | Minutes | Creation | Category | Awards | Reviews |
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Justice Finds a Way | What will mild mannered Ben do when faced with blackmail? | 10 | 10 April 2024 | Webcam | |||
Musical Fountains | A review of 3 sets of musical fountains from around the world. | 5 | 3 March 2024 | Documentary | |||
The Intruder | Who is the mysterious intruder??
This film contains a reference to something that anyone under 40 may not understand - I'll be interested to see what people think of it! The ending will make more sense if you google "All because the lady loves Milk Tray". First experiment with new camera - you can tell I got some of the settings wrong! |
2 | 15 October 2023 | Solo | |||
Kamentu! | A mockumentary about a Japanese gesture strategy game | 7 | 3 July 2023 | External Actors | |||
Wake Up! | Modern gadgets to wake you up! | 1 | 12 March 2023 | Animation | |||
The Friend Zone | Will Bob ever date Alice or is he stuck in the Friend Zone? | 1 | 12 February 2023 | Animation | |||
Choose Your Wishes Wisely! | What would you do with three wishes? | 2 | 1 February 2023 | RFVM Actors | |||
Politics Is Confusing | How do you tell if someone's concussed?? | 1 | 19 November 2022 | RFVM Actors | |||
How Politics Feels | A bit of nonsense made from outtakes from my film "Politics is confusing" | 1 | 19 November 2022 | RFVM Actors | |||
The Eagle and The Owl (short edit) | Can a con-man avoid getting involved with a gangster?
This is the 12 minute edit, you can see the full 18 minute edit at The Eagle and The Owl |
12 | 19 June 2022 | Webcam | SoCo best film2023 | Pending review | |
The Eagle and The Owl | Can a con-man avoid getting involved with a gangster?
This is the full 18 minute edit, you can see the shorter 12 minute edit at The Eagle and The Owl (short edit) |
18 | 6 June 2022 | Webcam | Review on file | ||
Lotto | An experiment with green-screen filming | 3 | 3 April 2022 | RFVM Actors | |||
StairWalker | Documentary about a stair lift alternative I built. | 4 | 16 January 2022 | Documentary | |||
Moments | A brief glimpse into moments of a couple's relationship | 2 | 7 November 2021 | External Actors | |||
A Little Help | A short comedy film about getting a little help when you need it. | 2 | 17 May 2021 | RFVM Actors | |||
Quiz Night | A comedy about a random group of people coming together for an online quiz. | 12 | 2 May 2021 | Webcam | |||
Where's Wally? | Made as an exercise in putting a film together from random clips. Clips all from www.pexels.com | 1 | 16 March 2021 | Solo | |||
GopherChat | Doesn't lockdown sometimes feel like Groundhog Day?
A couple get this feeling, day after day after day... |
8 | 17 February 2021 | Webcam | Joint 1st RFVM 'Best of the Year' 2022, 3rd RFVM 'Comedy Competition' 2022 | ||
An Awkward Conversation | A couple come together to have a conversation, but about very different things… | 5 | 21 January 2021 | Webcam | |||
Fun with Magnets | A film about the wonders of playing with magnets! | 7 | 23 September 2020 | Solo | |||
Isolation | A short film about Isolation, inspired by the Covid pandemic | 2 | 27 March 2020 | Solo | 3rd SoCo 'Baby Dolphin' Competition 2021 | ||
Three Cheers for Winnie the Pooh! | My homage to the poem "Three Cheers for Pooh!" from "The House at Pooh Corner" by A.A.Milne
Starring me - and me :-) |
2 | 13 February 2020 | Solo | |||
The Loser | William lost big on a hand of poker, psychologist Amanda thinks she can help but doesn't know the real reason why he lost! | 7 | 4 December 2019 | External Actors | |||
The Trouble With EMail | A short comedy. | 1 | 4 December 2019 | RFVM Actors | |||
Chess | A little film about a chess match.
This version filmed on a smart phone, so not bad :) |
1 | 16 November 2019 | RFVM Actors | |||
StageStruck | A film made by the Reading Film and Video Makers, written and directed by me. | 10 | 16 September 2019 | RFVM Actors | |||
DevilCake | A story of cake theft indecision assisted by ethereal beings! | 2 | 20 April 2019 | RFVM Actors | |||
Treasure Hunt! | Can they find the secret treasure? | 1 | 27 March 2019 | RFVM Actors | |||
Frank Cupid’s Agency | This is a SHORT version of the film at under 10 minutes, you can see the LONG version at around 15 minutes at Frank Cupid’s Romance Assistance Agency
Frank Cupid runs a dating advice service, but he didn't expect to be advising two dates at the same time! Short version of this film. |
10 | 17 March 2019 | External Actors | 2nd RFVM Fiction Competition 2019 | ||
Frank Cupid’s Romance Assistance Agency | This is a LONG version of the film at around 15 minutes, you can see the SHORT version at under 10 minutes at Frank Cupid’s Agency
Frank Cupid runs a 'romance assistance agency', but he didn't expect to be advising two dates at the same time! |
15 | 16 March 2019 | External Actors | |||
Cupboard | A quick film just toying with an idea… | 1 | 27 February 2019 | Solo | 3rd, SoCo 'Baby Dolphin' Competition 2019 | ||
StageStruck Jackanory Style | I created a story board for my film StageStruck, then made a film using the story board! You can see the full film at StageStruck | 7 | 15 December 2018 | Solo | |||
Stalker | Made as an exercise, we were given 63 clips and had to make a film out of them. This film uses 19 of them. | 2 | 25 November 2018 | Solo | |||
The Vampire | After reading too much, a girl thinks she may be a vampire! | 2 | 10 November 2018 | RFVM Actors | |||
Sudden Death | The original script was written by me but the styling of the film, the music and sound and the building of tension was all done by the editor, Jim Reed. | 3 | 28 May 2018 | RFVM Actors | |||
T is for Tension | This was made as an exercise in trying to create tension in a film. | 1 | 29 April 2018 | RFVM Actors | |||
Paris | When I was writing this script I had a vision for how it would turn out, and it didn’t quite work in a few key points. It’s a valuable lesson in understanding what’s practically possible and writing to that, rather than imagining an ideal result and hoping it will work out. There’s a few shots I wish we’d recorded at the time but didn’t realise the need until I was editing.
This was my first attempt at editing a film, and the first time I’ve done any significant direction. There’s various points when I should have given better direction to the actors. |
3 | 8 April 2018 | RFVM Actors | |||
Vox Pop 2 | When I wrote the original Vox Pop I wrote too much for a 1 minute film, but we decided to film it anyway and make a second film from it. Again, we were using lavalier (clip on) microphones, but unfortunately a problem with the recording meant we had to use the sound recording from the camera, which is why there’s so much traffic noise. | 1 | 25 January 2018 | RFVM Actors | |||
Vox Pop | This was written for a 1 minute film competition. It turned out to be around 1:07 so is speeded up to fit into the time.We were using lavalier (clip on) microphones, but unfortunately a problem with the recording meant we had to use the sound recording from the camera, which is why there’s so much traffic noise. | 1 | 25 January 2018 | RFVM Actors | |||
Hope | Written for a 1 minute film competition which had to include a diamond in the story. Filmed by myself on a GoPro, very minimalist. | 1 | 18 January 2018 | Solo | |||
…the making of… | Fun film to make. I was not keeping proper notice of the takes we took, which meant for one scene the only take we had was not a good one, and had to patch it up. Worked out okay though. | 1 | 18 January 2018 | Solo | |||
Mermaid | Written as an exercise in making use of chromakey (green screen) technology to put the fish behind the actors.
Unfortuately, the footage for the film has been lost (but not a great loss!) |
2 | 1 January 2018 | RFVM Actors | |||
Bob Simpson interview | Just a recording exercise from my script, originally written as a 2-handed stage show sketch. | 3 | 22 October 2017 | RFVM Actors |