AV News 174 - November 2008
The girls' own contributions consisted almost entirely of the poems (on
Spring) which accompanied each sequence, some, in my limited experience,
very beautiful. The text appeared on the screen, usually as the image was
zoomed out, so that one had to wait for the whole picture to appear before
one could read the particular line. As a poetry competition on the subject of,
yes, Spring, with illustrations, this brave effort would have been interesting,
but unfortunately the "P" in RPS stands for Photography and not Poetry. The
effect on the audience (I can't speak for the jury) of the endless repetition of
images, music, and presentation was very unhappy.
There were also
twelve
"independent"
entries in the
Junior category.
Most of them
were original,
several very
much so, and a
number were also
impressively
sophisticated.
It was therefore no surprise that the distinguished international jury awarded
both the Prizes and all four Highly Commendeds to sequences from these
entrants.
As so often happens in AV events, the audience may not have agreed with
the Jury, and a straw poll suggested that, had there been a popular vote
prize, it would have g