AV News 201 - August 2015
U K A V 2 0 1 5 B e lg iu m
Maurice Dorikens & Guido Flobert
Analyzing recent productions from Great Britain shown in De Pinte (Ghent) on
May 15th 2015.
Introductory Comments.
In recent years, Belgium had no longer an international AV festival. The
ending of FIF stopped the tradition. Since then Diaporama Club Belgium
(DCB) thought it should at least have a regular show of foreign high standard
productions. This proved to be very successful, and was always well attended.
We hope it will stimulate our authors to participate in foreign festivals. So it's
not a real festival, it doesn't have a competition. We have no medals or
ribbons. Instead we have a special system aiming at the direct participation of
the audience (they are practically all AV workers).
We are most grateful to all authors who participated by sending us recent
productions. Its helps us very much in following in Flanders what is going on
abroad, in the case Great Britain. Through Linda Gibbs we had a first class
specialist in helping (in difficult circumstances) us selecting the authors and
their works to be shown in Belgium. You'll immediately understand why the
numbers of works had to be 9 and as a consequence not all top authors of
Great Britain were represented. We'll have a new group, at the next UK AV
Day. Thank you Linda!
The evening goes as follows:
the audience is to form 4
groups. Each group appoints a
‘rapporteur’. After the projection
of a set of sequences, the
groups get some time to
formulate their impressions, to
be presented by the 4
rapporteurs. Then we confront
the 4 reports, look for common
views and also for special
remarks, which can be discussed. Follows a short break and then the second
set of sequences, with the appropriate reports.
All is done under the supervision of Johan Werbrouck. Since the show is
an evening activity, time is limited. Depending on the
length of the sequences we can have between give
or take 8 to 14 sequences. Due to the usual length of
English sequences, a number of 8 are a maximum.
Authors in our country are no longer used to long
sequences; we have between 6 and 10 minutes.
The aim of this procedure is to teach people to
formulate clearly well funded comments (Keep It
Short and Simple - KISS). Not a simple "I like/don't
like it”. They don't have to ‘judge’ sequences or place
them in a final order; it is NOT a competition.
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