Hi everyone, my name is Rob and I am a massive fan of both the Aliens and Predator franchises. I am also a film student in wales and am currently trying to put together a documentary about costuming groups and the work they do in raising money for charity. I have been to a few events and think that there is a lot of potential with this idea, I have a number of organisations that I wish to contact with regards to being in the film but with the Alien franchise being my favourite I was really hoping that some of the members of the UKCM would be interested in being involved and be the main focus of the film. I hope that you all agree with me in thinking that this could be a very enjoyable and rewarding experience to all involved and please reply to me on here if you are interested.

Rob Hancock

Hi Rob.

I was gonna reply to your email after talking to a few people. My main issue I think you might have with centring a film around the UKCM is that we only really go to an event every couple of months so to make any sort of film about it, it would need to be done over the space of years...

The other issue with the UKCM is that we're not particularly great at raising money for charity... We do have http://www.justgiving.com/ukcm but that is the extent of our explicit charity work. Mainly, we sit around in bars and pubs and drink ...

Certainly, it sounds interesting.
However, everything is about charity these days.

Ewan and Charley rode around the world, citing a few visits to Unicef places as it all being for charity. This spawned a hundred other people (mostly with the same bike kit) to go and do the same, justifying it by saying it's for charity.

Plus you have a couple hundred large organisations, all begging just £3 a month for some charity or other...

A lot of the same goes on with costume shows.
Once upon a time it was a great thing, but nowadays you get loads of people in costumes, all with collecting tins and people really don't want to know/can't afford it. They come to shows to buy stuff for themselves (which is usually expensive enough) and they don't have that much change between them to be pestered for.


That's one of the reasons we work the way we do - Our attendance at shows is usually rewarded with an official donation by the show organisers (see recent SEGA promotion) directly to our chosen charity. Occasionally, we do very small events or the odd street collection (see thread about Comic Relief in Glasgow).


Typically, we do this for the following reasons:

- To get together with our friends, fellow fans and like-minded individuals.
- To entertain the public and have immense fun.
- To showcase our collections of stuff and develop them further.
- To meet with the stars, say thanks and show our appreciation.
- To further our collections.

The charity aspect is an additional benefit which we are able to incorporate into our work.

I wish I had the foresight to have posted essentially the same thing, but in much fewer words about 45 mins ago ...

I should obviate any misunderstanding about what Woody has Waffled above and say that the UKCM never set out to be charity group, and we do so little fund-raising not because there are too many charity costuming groups around, or because we are against the concept of charity but more because we set it up to have fun and didn't want the bureaucratic hassles of running a fund-raising group.

I really should have sent a considered reply to your email earlier, Ron.

you forgot to mention how much you like running around scaring the bejeezas out of everyone G

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Oh... sorry G - Your reply wasn't there when I started typing/waffling


Yeah, what G said!!

Don`t forget Auctions when we`re ALL together at an event (Donated goodies), proceeds goto Charity

After all who could forget the BID battle over Munkeys face hahahaha

Jason

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Thanks for clearing that up guys thats a lot of help. if i kept the charity aspect of the idea as just one side aspect of the film and got some other costuming groups involved would any of you still be interested in appearing in the film? i still think that this would be a fun project purely from a fans point of you.

Hi Rob

I think your best bet is to just keep an eye on the UKCM noticeboard here and come along to a drop or two. I don't think anyone would have a problem with answering a few questions on camera or being filmed at the event. They normally don't mind people filming at these things but it's always polite to ask the organisers of course. I for one would be happy to help you out if your at a show I'm attending.

Best of luck with the project

Darren