AV News 178 - November 2009
My aim, when I am making my sequences is to create a stimulating and
exciting AV to be viewed by a wider audience, perhaps occasionally with
material from outside influences, that can lift it above the "norm" of pictures
to a single track of music. I am not benefiting financially but we do charge an
entrance fee to these events around the country. I see from your recent
article that we are covered with the club IAC licence but would this cover use
of material from the BBC for example? Or are you covered by your individual
licence?
National AV Championships
Brian Harvey ARPS
I wish to raise my disappointment as to the way the 2009 National AV
Championships have been judged. I would state at this point that my
comments are not aimed at the event final judging but at the method of pre
selection.
I note that of the 50 authors accepted for the final, around 26% (13 in
number) were given 2 entries. I would have thought that it would have been
fairer on all entrants if the organizers had made a rule on the entry form, that,
in the event of too many entries being received any entrant with more than
one entry should mark on the entry form which entry he wished to be rejected
thereby leaving room for more authors to show their work. I do appreciate
that there may still have been need for pre selection but at least more
entrants would have got a chance. We need to encourage more authors not
to become elitist.
Another point I wish to raise is the lack of information provided to the
rejected sequences. I would have appreciated being told how many
sequences were received in total, how many rejected simply to give some
indication as to where my entry fell, ie if 100 sequences received and fifty
rejected at least I would have had an idea that my entries were in the bottom
50%.
I doubt that the final event judges carried out the pre selection so who and
how was the pre selection carried out.
Much of this may sound like sour grapes and if that is the way it is accepted
so be it, however, of my 2 rejected sequences, one which was entered in the
East Anglian AV Competition earlier this year attracted the following remarks
and I quote from AV News 176 "The popular vote of the audience went to
'The Photograph' by Brian Harvey. A very clever sequence about the life of
an old photograph.................This sequence was also awarded a certificate
of merit". I have quoted this AV News report just to indicate that one of my
entries must have had some merit and I am confused as to what standards
are used to judge. Was it because my sequences contained pzr (Pans,
Zooms & Rotates) as this does appear to be controversial?
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