Away from work, a lot of my time is spent in the world of film, with this split between volunteering at Warwick Student Cinema and my ever growing DVD collection. If you're interested, then here's the weblink to this term's Student Cinema Schedule.

Warwick Student Cinema

On the cinema front, I am highly involved, and am currently in my fourth year of being a crew member. During this time, I have held various roles and positions, including:

• Chief Duty Manager (2010/11)
• Films Officer (2009/10)
• President (2008/09)
• Treasurer (2006/07)
• Duty Manager (2005 onwards)
• Projectionist (2006 onwards)
• Titles Co-ordinator (2007-2009)
• Reviewer (2007 onwards)

As such a highly involved member, I have obviously gotten to know a fair deal about the running of a cinema, both on the day to day front and on the management side, having both held the purse strings as treasurer and being the president for the past year. I have also become a confident projectionist, capable of preparing and projecting 35mm film using our two Cinemaccanica 35/70mm projectors. I'll include a few pictures taken by friends of mine Matt Knight, Aiden Peakman and Tom Hunns:

• The left image above shows one of our projectors in action (here projecting a 70mm reel of Aliens). We operate a changeover system using two projectors, where at the end of each reel, the projectionist needs to switch from the projector that has been running for 15-20 minutes, to that with the freshly laced subsequent reel. This is done via the use of cue dots. The projector shown is fixed permanently in the projection suite at the back of Lecture Theatre 3, in Chemistry, on the Science concourse.
  
• The image on the right shows one of our annual outdoor screenings, (Ice Age - 2007) which are held annually in the last week of the summer term, as part of Warwick Student Arts Festival. Each year we hire-in specialist equipment, including a modified projector, a generator, an extra bright lamp (since the screening falls within days of the summer solstice!) and not to mention an outdoor screen, which has ranged from tarpaulin stretched across scaffolding, to a fully inflated and slightly domed outdoor screen. As a free event during the summer celebrations, the outdoor screening is highly popular, attracting in the region of 500 people each year to watch a kids classic from roughly 10pm til midnight.

BFFS files: Best Student Soc 2008, Marketing 2008.