Summer Nights Film Festival

Hi!

I should've posted this almost a week ago but I've been really busy with work and things so I have only just got around to it. So here's what happened on Saturday at the Derby Summer Nights Film Festival..

First things first, a bit of context. One afternoon, I was really bored so due to a lack of better things to do, I decided to Google my home town (Derby, East Midlands) and it pulled up a load of websites as Google does and I saw one that caught my eye. It was a festivals page and I saw on it one for the Summer Nights Film Festival (SNFF from now).
I clicked onto the page and found that this was basically a festival where they showed different films at various country houses in Derbyshire. I saw that at Kedleston Hall they were showing Gravity so I spoke to my friends and 4 of us got together and decided to go.

When the SNFF finally came around (our date to go anyway), we packed my tiny car with picnic stuff and chairs and set off to Kedleston Hall, really strugglling up any hills due to the distinct lack of power Peugeot 107s have. But we eventually got there at around 7:40 and we handed our tickets in and found a spot to set up.
The film was not due to start until the sun had set giving us 2 hours to sit, chat, eat and take some photos. After a few angry mutterings when a large family decided to plonk themselves right in front of us and shifting around so we could all see, we had some of our food (we had all bought far too much) and settled in to our chairs ready for the film to start.

Compulsory selfie before the film started

We had an introduction to the film from 2 radio DJs off Smooth Radio (clearly this festival is not particularly aimed at youth although we were perfectly welcome) and then Gravity started.
About half an hour into the film, a few big spots of rain fell causing everybody to start panicking and putting their rain macs on and the odd brolley even went up. After the kafuffle had died down, it stopped raining. As none of us had rain macs with us, we were very glad it stopped and found it hilarious because everyone had gotten so panicked over about 10 spots of rain.

Gravity was a really good film but shorter than I expected it to be although looking back, you could see that if they had dragged it out for much longer it would've been boring and same-y so it was good that they ended it when they did.
With what seemed like a grand total cast of 3 plus the odd extra, it was well held together with the plot and was generally scientifically correct with the exception of the end which obviously had to be done as it was for dramatic effect but it irritated the scientist in me because in real life, it couldn't have happened.
But other than that, the plot was excellent, the characters were well thought out if a little thin on the ground and the effects on the film were ace so all in all I would definitely recommend it.

If there is something similar to SNFF in your area, I would definitely go to it because it is something different and something you will remember because of that.

Speak soon :)
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