Audio-Visual Notes by Trish McAuslan APSNZ AV-LAPS EFIAP AAPS AV Coordinator for PSNZ
Challenge 321 THE CHALLENGE IS to tell your AV story in no more than 3 minutes 21 seconds. This is a fun competition which is open to all AV makers. Why not create a short AV and have a go? The competition is open for entries now and it closes on 15 March. For more information, check out the website: www. challenge321.org
Tauranga Audio-Visual Salon This year the Tauranga club celebrates the tenth year they have run this competition. The information for this year’s Tauranga Salon is now on their website: https:// taurangaphoto.nz/ under the heading ‘AudioVisual Salon’. Entries will open on 5 May. The only significant change this year is that authors may leave their name on their AV, preferably in the credits at the end of the programme. This is important in terms of establishing the copyright ownership of an AV. We realise that this may be a little uncomfortable for many New Zealand entrants as we are not used to doing this. To the best of my knowledge, ours is the only country which has specifically banned the inclusion of authors’ names on AVs. Consequently this causes problems for some entrants who have to create a special programme for the New Zealand competition and for the organisers who frequently have to contact an author and ask them to remove their name and resubmit their entry. We had considerable discussion before deciding to follow what is the norm in international competition. Because AVs are
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several minutes in length, we realised that the judging is generally completed by the end of the AV, so seeing the author’s name is not likely to influence experienced judges. In any competition the judges are likely to have seen a number of the AVs before and probably know who the author is, or they recognise the author’s voice, so we expect our judges to be sufficiently professional not to allow this to influence their judgement. Other AVs are created by people the judges have never heard of so they are not likely to be influenced by an unknown name.
Award Winners in the Jack Sprosen Memorial Trophy Competition for AVs Congratulations to you all. Members will be able to see these AVs at the PSNZ Convention in Christchurch this April. Here is what the authors had to say about their successful audio-visuals.
Bruce Burgess FPSNZ Gold Medal and the Jack Sprosen Memorial Trophy for Te o Whakaari The Dramatic Volcano
