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AV News 182 - November 2010 A View on the International Festival Tony Bramham This is a report by Tony Bramham who attended the Festival as a friend of Colin Balls and who featured in Colin's Festival entry which secured the award of Best Creative Sequence and also won the Audience Vote of Session 2. See Page 24 As an outsider at the 2010 Audio Visual Festival I have been asked to give my views of the event. I had an excellent time, really enjoyed myself and got quite excited about what was for me a new type of Art form. I travelled down with Colin Balls to Cirencester and on the way Colin had said all you have to do is mark each sequence with an A, B, or C. This sounds easy enough but where do you begin? It was hard to know what the standard of the first AV would be, as prior to this weekend I had only ever seen the work of Colin and Peter Coles both of whom blend sound and images very well. So I started to mark low and after the first session my programme was littered with 'C's. Colin advised me to be a little more generous as I would end up with insufficient sequences to fill the awards positions! Peter's 'A Star' was ver 䁍ɕ