The gallery can be found HERE. Please treat this gallery just like the comment gallery, go and have a look, play the video (You will need a PC (or a MAC!) with speakers) and make your comments as you think appropriate.

At the moment it may look like a Peter & Jill Myers A/V gallery but that is because I have yet to persuade our other A/V makers to showcase their work on the gallery.

So to all our excellent A/V makers who have shown their A/V’s at the A/V group meeting (You know who you are … Leif… Andy … Roger… Mary… Fred… Craig) and those who are about to finalise their A/V’s (You know who you are also!) we will be demonstrating how to upload your productions at the final A/V group meeting in December.

In the meantime please contact me and I will talk you through the very easy uploading process

We will be continuing our look at members A/V’s and attempting to learn some of the finer points of A/V production using Pro Show software. If you have made any A/V’s, no matter how good or bad you think they are, please bring them along.

As with our last meeting we will dissect one of Peter’s latest A/V’s and look into the workings of the show.

The A/V Peter has produced for this disection is called “After Dark”. Have a look below and have your questions ready for the meeting…

After Dark from Peter Myers on Vimeo.

Tonight, Tuesday Oct 13th is our monthly A/V Group meeting.
Bring along your A/V’s and we will watch and disect as usual.
After the members A/V presentations we will be doing a tutorial in Pro Show on the subject of captions and motion.

See you at Wadham House at 7.30pm…sharp

We had a great time, and occasionally got some good photos…

Beechworth 2009 from Peter Myers on Vimeo.

For those of you who were at the “club night” last Tuesday and hopefully inspired by the A/V presentations from our judge Pele Leung, why not come along and start with us the journey of learning, so that hopefully one day we can all make A/V’s as inspiring as Peles’.

Last month, Ross showed us how to start creating an A/V.

This month we hope to take things a stage further. If anyone has an A/V they have either finished…or just started, or all stages in between, please bring it along on Tuesday and as a group we will analyze, dissect and learn…hopefully.

If anyone is struggling to produce an A/V because you do not have any appropriate software, well the good news is I have found a web service which will do it for you. Go to www.animoto.com and see for yourself.

See you all on Tuesday at Wadham House…7.30pm prompt

The meeting starts at 7.30pm at Wadham House, and tonight Ross is going to demonstrate how to start the process of creating an A/V from scratch…

See you there.

17 members turned up on the evening.

Peter Myers and Ross Garner demonstrated 3 existing A/V presentations, and the group were invited to critique these presentations. The main point which came from the critiques were the importance of planning the story to be told by the A/V, the relevance of appropriate music to the presentation, and the significance of ensuruing that visual transitions were “In Sync” with the beat and temp of the accompanying music.

Ross demonstrated his A/V presentations which were produced in the dark ages, long before the availability of computers and compter software. The core production techniques referred to above were all present in these A/V’s and clearly demonstrated their importance.

The group agreed to meet each month, with the objective of presenting a number of completed A/V productions to the club by March 2010 with the intention of selecting some A/V’s to represent the club at the 2010 VAPS muster.

Next month’s meeting will be Tuesday August 11th at Wadham House. Ross and Peter will bring some image and audio assets to the meeting and the group will together begin the process of creating an A/V from these assets.

The meeting will take place at Wadham House at 7.30am. Bring some sandwiches and drinks for refreshment.

As this is the first group meeting, the agenda for the night will be very flexible. We will decide how we want to proceed with these meetings and what our objectives are.

To get you started, as most of you will know I have just returned from a holiday to the UK and I have just finished an A/V presentation of the trip which you can view HERE.

We can discuss, critique and disect this A/V on Tuesday if this helps…

See you all on Tuesday….

A/V’s are a special category of image presentation which camera clubs can create for their own competitions, and indeed can enter into VAPS inter club competitions and various national competitions. At the recent VAPS muster over 20 clubs entered A/V’s into the VAPS competition.

An A/V is usually a presentation of a collection of images, usually set to music, and occasionaly with a narrative or voice over. An A/V normally runs for approximately 4 minute.

We are fortunate at WCC to have Ross Garner as one of our members. Ross is VERY knowledgeable on this subject and we may be able to persuade Ross to give us the benefit of his knowledge…let’s see.

If anyone is interested in joining this group please contact either Dave Sumner or Peter Myers. We will possibly need to arrange a meeting place (Wadham House?) and time, and agree on a special interest group membership fee to cover the meeting room hire etc.