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Master of Audio-Visual Arts

 

The Master Movie-Maker Fellowship of the IAC – FACI (M) is awarded for outstanding attainment in Film-making and audio-visual arts. IAC Council  has recently decided to implement a new system of application for this Award.

The aim is partly to encourage more A-V workers to apply for the distinction.

To qualify, applicants must have accumulated at least five points as follows:

Two AV Sequences which  have each won two FIAP-Recognised International Awards  will be worth one point provided that one of these International Awards was via the Geoffrey Round Competition.

In addition at least one of these Sequences must have been overall winner of the Geoffrey Round AV Competition.

Applicants must, of course, have been a full member of the IAC for at least five years.

Applications need to be ratified by Council and to cover administrative costs there is a £25 application fee.

Each AV Sequence must have been made in the name of the applicant in the role of Director. Club entries will not count. Each Sequence may be used by one applicant only.

Any believing they may qualify, please contact David Newman, 78 The Common Quarndon Derbyshire DE22 5JY e-mail david.newman@boltblue.com

Winners of the Geoffrey Round AV Competition (a necessary qualifying condition) include:

Richard Brown with “The Story of a Hymn”, 1994;

Sid Pearce with “Oblivion”, 1995;

Norman Veale with “Monsieur Maurice”, 1996;

Malcolm Imhoff with “Carnival in Venice”, 1997;

Harry Duckmanton with “Are You Arkin” 1998;

Jean & Reg Royle with “Not I Surely” 2000;

Ron Davies with “Idwal Bach” 2001;

Gabriele Pinardi with “Il Ladro di Recordi”, 2002;

Peter Coles with “City of Flowers” 2003;

Johan Werbrouck and Freddy Adam with “The Vanishing Race” 2004;

Ron Davies with “Hedd Wyn”, 2005;

Johan Werbrouck with “Room 17? 2006;

Jacques van de Weerdt with “Essai sur Ma Haine” 2007.

All these potential FACI (M) Distinction holders need now is another nine International Awardwinning Sequences

four of which need to have gained Awards in the Geoffrey Round event!

That’s a tall order !!!!!

There were, however two recent contenders!

They were awarded this honour on 20th Oct 2007

Their Names: Peter Coles and Ron Davies.

 From forthcoming pages of Film and Video-Maker:

I have had great fun making AVI files from AVs to enable these to be shown via Youtube; it has been a bit of a problem keeping them below 100MB if they were longer than about 8 minutes. I have made over thirty of my Sequences into such files which can be viewed direct from the www.youtube.com site itself. Twenty of these can be seen from my own site. If there is sufficient interest amongst members, I may be able to offer to put a few guest Sequences on the site. Please have a look at what is there already and then consider whether you would like one of your own  to be available under a new heading of “Guest Sequences”. Please let me know via peter@3-c.coop

Summer is notorious for there not being many local AV events; it is a period where Sequences are being planned or completed ready for the events to come in Autumn. It is our National AV championships at the end of September; by the time you read this it may well be too late to send an entry but don’t forget to visit the event; it is one of the best ways to find out what is being produced by some of the finest AV workers. Contact Brian Jeffs on brian-jeffs@tiscali.co.uk or visit the web site www.navc.org.uk

It has been interesting experimenting with Pictures to EXE version 5 which is, of course, now fully released and downloadable from www.wnsoft.com or from www.beechbrook.com . I am sure that in forthcoming events, up and down the country, and in AV Festivals abroad, we will witness too much zooming, too rapid panning, sickening rotating and combinations of two or three of these added features within PTE 5, but the most important thing it allows us to do is to use as many “projectors” as we wish at any time at any intensity. This facility should encourage far greater sensitivity toward those finer movements that can make our art form enhance the things we need to “say” visually. I am sure too that, if we care to take note from our Film-maker cousins, we will soon find out that, because they have had time to play with such features for longer than we have, we will use them more sparingly and only when they enhance what we have to “say”, rather than just use them because they are there.

What have I learned from my own early experiments?

I have found the use of png images within Sequences very interesting when applied within “objects and animation”. By building parts of jpg images onto a transparent canvas and then saving these as png images these can be “manipulated” within the frame of any jpg as they occur during a Sequence. By linking one “manipulation” with another some very effective small changes can add interest to the Sequence.

In one of my most recent Sequences “Beyond These Things”, about (amongst other things) Procol Harum’s “Whiter Shade of Pale” I included an image which has a cat illustration in one corner of the frame. This could fade to become Bach and then back to the cat very simply. Also the statue in the corner of the room could become Bach and move with the statue head as it changed from plaster to Bach.

(See “Beyond These things” under “Audio Visuals”)

In another recent Sequence based on Lewis Carroll’s “Alice Through The Looking Glass”, it becomes very easy to give a hint of movement of a background in different directions all within the same single image, as very low % pngs can be added at will to the main jpg image.

See “The Way Forward” within “Audio Visuals”

This Sequence taken from Alice is made as a response to our IAC Challenge “The Way Forward”. I’ll quote Lewis Carroll here for you, as I think maybe he has something to say to us all whether we are new to PTE v 5 or not.

“Alice looked around her in great surprise. ”Why, I do believe we’ve been under this tree the whole time! Everything is just as it was!’

‘Of course it is,’ said the Queen. ‘What would you have it?’

‘ Well in our country,’ said Alice, still panting a little, ‘you’d generally get somewhere else – if you ran very fast for a long time as we’ve been doing.’

‘A slow sort of country!’ said the Queen. ‘Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!’

‘I’d rather not try, please!’ said Alice. ‘I’m quite content to stay here …..’ “

It is difficult on paper to explain all this, so do visit www.avpeter.com and see what I mean.

We all learn by doing rather than being told what to do and/or how to do it, so please, please please do have a go!

That’s how we LEARN: JUST DO IT !!

 

Pictures to EXE version 5.1 is now downloadable from

www.beechbrook.com

 

 

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