AV News 189 - August 2012
So what did particularly well? In 4th place we had 'Marjolaine', by Jean-Louis
Terrienne, a sequence which use a well known French song (well known to
them) about a fictitious inhabitant of Oradour, using mainly archive pictures
of that ill-fated village. Third place went to 'Le Maître des signes', by Laure
Gigou, about the development of Chinese written characters, set against
images of contemporary China.
In second place was
Christian Hendrickx, for
'Modi' a story about the
ill-fated love life of
Amedeo Modigliani, his
death and his pregnant
lover's suicide the next
day.
This all happened in
Paris in the 1920's and
the sequence made very
good use of moody,
atmospheric,
timeless
scenes of the city.
Laure Gigou, Jean-Louis Terrienne and
Christian Hendrickx with their prizes
But first place was awarded to 'Brière: Terre de lumière', credited to Bernard
Prin, Yvonne Faivre, Yannick Le Toulouzan and Guy Fondain, and
comprising a slide show of atmospheric landscape shots of the Brière
National Park on the Atlantic coast of France. These had been taken by a
number of photographers on a camera club outing and showed the marshy
landscape in misty, moody
Organisers with Winner Yvonne Faivre
conditions.
So how did these winning AVs
rate in our eyes? Well they certainly
had good photographs, but the
sound tracks were often simple and
the winner had no story.
So why were they chosen? Well,
go back to the nature of the judges,
they were all photoclub members,
only one noted AV worker amongst
them, so almost inevitably they went
for the sequences with outstanding
photographs (sound familiar?).
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