AV News 179 - February 2010
More News from the Trenches
V e rn o n B a rlo w
Our last meeting of 2009 at Prestwich Co-op Camera Club was 15th
December and was the Club AV project night. Earlier in the year, "Mid June I
think" we had organised our 15 AV members into 5 sub groups and set them
a project which had to be completed for showing at the last meeting before
Christmas. The theme was a short poem which I had found in the Daily Mail
and the idea was that one member of each group, already active in the art of
AV production would pass on their skills to the other members of their group.
The Poem which apparently is quite old is shown below for your information.
Amy Elizabeth Ermintrude Annie
Went to the country to visit her Granny
Learnt to make butter learnt to make cheese
Learnt to milk cows and take honey from bees
Learnt to spice rose leaves and learnt to cure ham
Learnt to make cider and blackcurrant jam
When she got home she could not settle down
She said there was nothing to do in the town
Nothing to do there and nothing to see
Life was all shopping and afternoon tea
So Amy Elizabeth Ermintrude Annie
Ran away back to the country and granny
What's been happening since our last report To AV News, well quite a lot.
Everybody worked their little cotton socks off and the result was 6 short
AV's of varying durations. We projected each in turn allowing time between
for the rapturous applause, which was only to be expected, then we ran
through them all again with a pause between each one for comments.
Ok I can hear you saying, how come 6 from 5, well it just goes to show how
keen we are at PCCC. Well the evening was a great success and it's
encouraged people to invest in PTE and Audacity. So hopefully we should be
seeing more entries in our annual AV competitions.
Some members use software from Photodex, such as Producer and
Proshow Gold4, others are using PTE V5.6 and V6 and are all learning as
we go, exchanging knowledge and ideas.
Now we have to set up a new project for 2010 and persuade our syllabus
secretary to allocate some dates for AV evenings. Our Clu