AV News 189 - August 2012
MASTER OF AUDIO-VISUAL ARTS (Fellowship) - FACI(M)
This distinction is granted by the IAC Council for outstanding attainment in
AV work. To qualify, applicants must have accumulated at least 5 points as
follows :1. Two AV sequences which have each won two International awards will
be worth one point providing that one of the four international awards was
via the Geoffrey Round/Peter Coles AV Competition.
This method of accumulating points will need to be repeated five times.
(10 sequences and 20 awards are required in total, with a minimum of 5
of these awards being gained via the Geoffrey Round/Peter Coles AV
Competition.)
2. In addition, at least one of these 10 sequences must have been the
overall winner of the Geoffrey Round/ Peter Coles AV Competition.
3. Applicant must have been a full member of the IAC for at least five years.
4. Applications need to be ratified by Council and to cover administrative
costs, there is a £25 application fee.
Filming Human Nature
Maurice Dybeck ARPS
Do any of you remember those chocolate bars called FIVE BOYS? On the front
would be a row of interesting faces each representing how the young lad felt as
he enjoyed his chocolate bar.
Something like ATTRACTION,
ANTICIPATION,
ELATION
and
SATISFACTION. (I forget the actual
words) And against each word
was that vivid picture of his
happy face.
So, if you are looking for a
subject to challenge your
photographic and story-building
skills how about this one? But for
my source of inspiration I went
back a lot further than a
chocolate bar of fifty years ago.
In my library I happen to have a bound copy of the earliest editions of THE
SPECTATOR. Dated 1714. I suppose it was the PUNCH or the VIZ of its day,
and just as cheeky about men and morals. And, of course, women.
Although the language is, shall we say, circumlocuitous, their observations
about human nature are penetrating and, once you have transfigured the
customs of those days, just as topical as they ever were. As you read them,
you can conjure up pictures of the characters described, translate them into
modern dress and, with your camera and plenty of facial closeups, create a few
witty cameos to underline the observations made almost three hundred years
ago.
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