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by Trish McAuslan AV-AAPS FAPS APSNZ EFIAP Coordinator of Audio-Visuals for PSNZ
Tauranga AV Salon
This is a year we wanted to celebrate. It is the 10th year that we have organised this Salon and we decided to invite Newell Grenfell Hon PSNZ FPSNZ FNPSNZ to be our guest judge. Newell is both a leading PSNZ photographer and a great supporter of this Salon and other AV activities. Because he lives in the South Island we could not afford to invite him to judge earlier Salons. This time we were prepared, and ready to go.
Then came COVID-19. We had already advertised the Salon, so the decision was made to continue, with remote judging if required. When the government announced the removal of all restrictions except for border controls on 8 June we started to plan. Newell was able to get suitable flights from Christchurch to Tauranga (at full fare of course!) and everyone else was willing to meet. The judging weekend in mid-June was the first time we had been able to get together for three months. This year there were 109 entries from 50 different authors living in eight countries. We enjoyed all the audiovisuals, including some that were challenging and some that were controversial, resulting in interesting discussions. We reminisced about the way audio-visuals had changed in our Salon’s ten years.
The overall winner was Malcolm Imhoff from the United Kingdom. His AV A Place of Pilgrimage also won the Documentary category. Theme was won by Guido Clarysse from Belgium with Drawing with Light. Elizabeth Carruthers FPSNZ AFIAP from New Zealand won Music, Poetry and Song with One Day in Winter and World of Nature was won by Sally Hinton from Australia with Crested Terns. The New Zealand Novice category was won by Leo Kwon from
Judging team, from left: Trish McAuslan, Elizabeth Carruthers, Newell Grenfell, Dave Riddleston, Alistair McAuslan (at the table behind Dave), Paul Byrne
Auckland with Cross that Bridge.
It was really pleasing to see that 23 New Zealanders entered a total of 40 programmes. The following people were awarded Merits for their AVs: Sue Riach APSNZ ARPS AFIAP, Shona Kebble APSNZ , Trish McAuslan APSNZ EFIAP FAPS AV-AAPS, Sheryl Williams APSNZ and Bob McCree FPSNZ. Acceptances were gained by Bob McCree (2) Leo Kwon (2) , Jo Curtis LPSNZ, Matt Leamy LPSNZ, Gail Stent FPSNZ, Kevin Chong, Paul Byrne FPSNZ ARPS AFIAP, Diana Andrews LPSNZ, Elizabeth Carruthers, Alistair McAuslan APSNZ AVAAPS, John Smart LPSNZ, Koshy Yohannan and Jenny Dowling LPSNZ. Congratulations to everyone who was successful.
The next time we meet will be at the presentation evening on 8 August. We will show a programme of award-winning audiovisuals from the Salon and present medals and certificates to successful entrants who are able to be present.
Thank you to everyone who entered our Salon in 2020. We don’t know what the world will be like in 2021, but we have begun planning for the 11th Tauranga AV Salon. We look forward to seeing many of your audiovisuals next year.
Jack Sprosen Memorial Trophy Competition 2020/21
This year the competition will be organised by the Tauranga Photographic Society. No date has been set for the judging yet but it is likely to be in late October or early November.
Entries in the documentary category may run for any duration up to seven (7) minutes. Entries in all other categories may run for any duration up to five (5) minutes. Entries longer than the prescribed time will be disqualified.
Reason for the change
Over time it has become clear that some AVs, particularly documentaries, require more time to present the story well. After attending the judging of the Adelaide AV Fest (an international AV Salon which attracts about 150 entries) in 2017 and 2019, we studied the length of the AVs.
The majority of documentaries were between five and seven minutes in length while AVs in the other categories were shorter.
For the last two years the Tauranga AV Salon has allowed AVs entered in the documentary category to be up to seven minutes long.
This meant that a number of the successful documentary audio-visuals created by New Zealand entrants were longer than the five minutes previously allowed in the JSMT competition - and therefore could only be entered if they were shortened. The rule change allows these AVs to be entered in the JSMT as well.
Jack Sprosen Memorial Trophy Competition 2019/20
Because of COVID-19, this year’s PSNZ National Convention was cancelled. One effect of that is that we were not able to show the winning audio-visuals from last year’s competition. With the permission of the authors, I have been putting them onto the PSNZ AV Group’s Facebook page. I have not been able to share all the AVs because
some authors have used a soundtrack that is not free of copyright restrictions. When this happens, Facebook uploads the images but not those parts of the soundtrack that are subject to copyright.
This is a private Facebook group, so unless you are a member you will not be able to enjoy these AVs. If you would like to join, either
Go to the group’s home page and click on ‘Join’. You may have to wait a day or two until your application has been approved. https://www.facebook.com/ groups/913767702312027/
Or
Email either Gail Stent or me and ask to join. We will send you an invitation to join the group. Note: You do need a Facebook account to join the group, and I know some people are not happy to do this. One thing you can do is create a Facebook account using a pseudonym, perhaps just your first name, and do not fill out any of the other information. You could use it only to participate in the Group as long as the Group has some way to identify you. You can set personal privacy settings if that is the main concern. Please contact either me or Gail if you want to join in this way.
Key Summit by Judth Bishop LPSNZ
