A film for a team, a choir, or a season that just ended

The people who run a sports club, a choir or a parents' committee are doing it in the evening, after work, for nothing. A film that takes one sitting is not a luxury for them, it is the difference between something existing and nothing existing.

The season that just ended

A coach or a parent, in November, with one result worth remembering. The film can show how many matches the team played and how many players there were. Those numbers come from the coach, and Nine never supplies one, because a number somebody guessed would be worse than a number that is missing.

The concert

A conductor or a board member who needs to fill a hall and has something to send out. The programme is the content: written as a script, one item per paragraph, each item becomes its own scene, in order. That makes the film a programme with movement in it rather than a poster, and it can be sent in a message to people who have not decided whether to come.

Getting people to turn up

A working bee or a fundraising day, where the whole point is to explain what the money is for and get people to give up a Saturday. The film shows one number: the goal. You write the number.

The end of the school year

Two films fit here. One is the summer goodbye from a form teacher, short, with a line for the class rather than a wall of pictures. The other is the class film where every pupil gets a line, one paragraph each, in the order you write them. Alphabetical is safest, because a class notices that sort of thing.

What all of these ask of you

• The name of the group, spelled correctly, because it is the one thing everybody will check.
• The list, the programme, or the number. The content that makes it this club's film rather than a generic one.
• A greeting from somebody. In an organisation where everybody is busy, one person's two sentences is usually enough.
• Photographs only if you want them. A drawn film needs none.

Making it in Nine

A film of your own comes with a plan; the free part of Nine lets you look and try, and never makes a film. On a plan there are several ways in. Start from a template puts your own words into one of Nine's templates, a name and one line, a card that holds still, or three points, and adds nothing to them. A script takes the words you already have, in your order, and each paragraph becomes a scene. Just an idea needs only a sentence. A voice recording makes the film run as long as you talk, with your voice as its sound. On the Film plan a film is up to 30 seconds.

The film is drawn, so it needs no photograph. If it should show your own photographs, the plans with a library, Film + Transparent and above, make a film from your own pictures, placed as they are and never retouched. Music is added afterwards in the chamber, calm or with a beat, and goes into the video file when you save. Nine sends nothing to anybody: you get the video file, or a private review link, and you decide who sees it.