AV News 200- May 2015
Ar o und T h e Cl ub s
K aleido sc op e
Joan Horne
Saturday 14th March was Kaleidoscope, the East Midland AV Group and Leicester MovieMakers combined annual Show.
What a successful Show. For the second time, Leicester MovieMakers joined with the East Midland AV Group to provided a polished performance for the 60 + audience. There was something new for everyone and an exchange of ideas too. The demarcation between both groups is disappearing fast.
Both groups use still and moving images to add impact. The quality of video is equal to the still image. Both groups have similar ways of enticing their members to produce work. These include using a common theme, one minute production and / or a piece of unedited commercial recording.
Malcolm Imhoff led the proceedings, giving an excellent introduction to a few presentations at a time. The whole event left everyone inspired. This is certain to become a fixture in both groups calendars.
23 rd East A nglian A V C om p etitio n
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Jenny Gee DPAGB & Malcolm Gee ARPS DPAGB
“ At the first East Anglian Audio Visual Competition, back in 1993, no one envisaged that 23 years later it would still be going strong”; these were the opening remarks from Dick Williams, Chairman of the Essex AV Group which organised the event. On Saturday 21st March 2015 it was cold and dull, with a strong, and what we here in East Anglia call a ' lazy ' wind( one that goes straight through you), so for once the weather was more conducive to being inside all day! About sixty AV enthusiasts, from the East Anglian, Kent, Chilterns, Surrey, Southern and Western Counties regions, gathered in Margaretting Village Hall, near Chelmsford in Essex to watch the 41 submissions, which were judged by Linda Gibbs MPAGB AV-AFIAP and Edgar Gibbs FRPS MPAGB AV-AFIAP. Between them, this husband and wife team have a wealth of experience in all the elements of AV production, and have won awards, and judged both national and international competitions.
There was a good variety of subject matter, with some innovative and thought provoking ideas. This year interpretation of a song or poem seemed to be popular, and there was a good sprinkling of humorous sequences- not easy to do! AV ' s on topics associated with WW1 or WW2 also featured strongly, and there were several with a transport theme, from skate boards and mountain bikes to fast cars, a railway station, a 100-year old monorail and the Stockholm underground.
Once again the organising committee arranged a fish and chip supper for those who had booked it, and the Prize Giving and Gala Show followed in the evening. Sequences that had won awards were shown again, in groups or individually