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AV News 182 - November 2010 As reported there were 12 entry's from 7 AV workers, John commented on each one, highlighting their good points and making suggestions on how to improve on the weak points. As a result of his suggestions during July we had a club AV evening and took one of the unsuccessful AV's. 'Green Door' and showed how the addition of sound effects improved the show. Quite a simple exercise providing you've still kept the AV project file and not dropped it in the bin after hitting the create EXE file button. 2010 Projects Well after the success with the Amy Elizabeth poem I was at a loss as to what the group might try their hand at, so for 2010 it's been left to them all to either work on their own or get together and form small groups. Some ideas were suggested Water-Sky-Poem-Song-Humorous-Sales Advert-Transport-Historic-Parks-Buildings-Sports. In other words an open theme. However some rules were suggested: Duration no more than 5 Minutes Audio, in addition to Background Music please try and add Commentary and Sound Effects Have a go at producing a Third Image (which has raised many questions) Well I think that in addition to working to produce entry's for our annual competition (judging date 15/3/11) that our workers are having a go at the group project. I'm sure the recent up date of PTE6 to PTE6.5 with its welcome improvements in the audio side of the software will be a great help to most AV workers. Maybe just in time since the August issue of AV News details a new piece of software DGFectsAV which seems to offer adva