1. Cinema Venue Consultation

2. Background
Group of people who wanted to share the pleasure of watching films together
Society has been going for 15 years, charity for 3 years with 2 aims: annual screening season and Festival
Audiences of at monthly screenings and 80% capacity at Festival – 99 bed nights, 2500 tickets, national publicity, revenue for town
Each monthly screening costs about £200 for venue rental and license and 6 hours of volunteer time
Screening venues have to be licensed separately if you screen more than 6 times in any location
Digital Cinema Package (DCP) vs. DVD
Comfort, sight-lines and accessibility

3. Feasibility Study: Survey Results
Survey of members, town and festival participants
Overwhelming positive and Black Isle residents keen to attend
Key issues:
‘cinema’ setting – quality seating, projection, sound,
New releases
Accessibility
Cost of tickets (7-10)

4. Feasibility Study: Proposed Operations
Eden Court partnership
Removes license cost from our operations
Allows access to first run cinema
Advertising
Online ticket sales
Training and technical advice
Dependent upon having DCP equipment (dedicated projection room)
1-2 screenings per week (including children/family films)
Rental to business and community groups, gaming events, and conference facilities

5. Proposed Site Examined all potential existing buildings
Townlands Barn is a possibility but a difficult A-listed building and a compromise on comfort, space and sightlines
Purpose built provides best possibility for meeting objectives
Of all sites the harbour along from the Slaughterhouse is considered the best option
Based on this have prepared drawings for a 30 seat cinema with a projected cost of £230,000

6. Proposed Site (initial drawing)

7. Proposed Plan (initial drawing)

8. Proposed Section

9. Proposed Elevations

10. Proposed Elevations

16. Proposed Development
Funding possibility from LEADER but must be complete by Oct Response to initial conversations has been extremely positive and there is up to £100,000 available – encouraged to submit
Also looking at other funding sources, Creative Scotland, SSE, crowdfunding etc.
Next step is planning application, for which we have already budgeted

17. Further Feedback