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Alton Classic Car Show

One Saturday a year, four wheels and a century of history take over Alton's High Street.

PROJECT: Independent — filmed on specDRAFT v1.0 — 2026
FILM EMBED PENDING — YOUTUBE
Format
Event Coverage
Event Date
22 Aug 2026
Year
2026
Location
High Street, Alton, Hampshire

01Logline

One Saturday a year, four wheels and a century of history take over Alton's High Street.

02Concept

An independently-filmed highlight piece capturing the 2026 Alton Classic Car Show, run by the Alton Lions Club in aid of St Michael's Hospice – Hospice at Home. This year's show featured "The French Connection" — around 20 French classic cars — alongside a century of everyday motoring history, live music, and the local High Street shops and pubs the show spills into.

This film was shot independently and on spec — it is not an official Alton Lions Club production, and no commercial relationship with the event is implied.

03Visual Language

Warm, sunlit colour grade. Macro detail inserts — badges, chrome, wheels, light catching each car's paintwork — cut against wide, community-scale shots of the crowd and High Street.

A recurring "badge reveal" transition used across multiple cars ties the detail shots together into a montage.

04Structure

Opens on a macro montage of badges and wheels, before pulling wide to establish the High Street lined with cars. Moves through the French Connection feature display, then into the community and charity beats — families, live music, local shopfronts — before closing back on the crowd.

05Sound & Music

Licensed upbeat, nostalgic music bed, layered with ambient crowd and engine sound design.

06Deliverables

  • 1 × full-length highlight film (16:9)
  • 1 × vertical cut (9:16) for social

07Schedule

PhaseWindow
Shoot daySat 22 August 2026 — Alton High Street, Hampshire
Early arrivalOn location before the 10am public opening for clean wide shots
Selects & first cut+1 week
Revisions+2 weeks
Final delivery+3 weeks