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CTPS AV Honours recipients

Two CTPS members, Ken Woods, and John Arseniou, were award-

ed LPSSA AV Honours in the recent Honours judging session

AV makers applying for LPSSA Honours must submit Love. (see posters above).
two AVs to be judged by a panel of experts who take He has won several awards with Summertime and Ken
four criteria into account: communication, visuals, audio describes it as "a blend of images taken over some years
and Audio-Visual techniques. in Namaqualand, combined with music that I felt cap-
They score each sequence out of 100, with the total di- tured the feeling of this area.
vided by four to give a percentage. Two-thirds (66.6%) "Macro images allow one to see much deeper into the
of the judges must pass both sequences for an LPSSA beauty of the flowers than just looking with one`s own
application to succeed. eyes."

According to the PSSA website an effective AV will have For his second AV, Lost love, he used images that were
unity of its three parts – the conception, the visuals and the taken at the old car museum just outside Cape Town on
sound. Applicants are encouraged to explore the photo- a CTPS club outing.
graphic medium and to use it to communicate their own
personal vision incorporating feeling, senses and imagina- "A young couple came along as models for us," explains
tion to the viewer. Ken. Some of the old cars in his AV had peeling images
of a woman from the past. "The audio used in conjunc-
To succeed with an Honours application a sequence tion with our models gave me the idea for the concept
must take into account, and give evidence of unquestion- of lost love. "
able photographic competence of the person applying for
the distinction. The technical ability to combine the imag- John Arseniou, a CTPS member from the Eastern
es with music in an effective manner will add to the overall Cape, was inspired to make an AV of a visit to Sossusvlei
success of the Audio Visual. (see below left). "What a wonderful experience!" he en-
thuses. "One cannot describe the beauty, the magnitude
Our AV Convenor, Ken Woods, submitted two AVs for of the dunes and the dead trees." He obviously succeed-
the LPSSA AV honours, namely Summertime and Lost ed in getting his message across because this AV con-
tributed to his Honours application succeeding.

AV Makers and PSSA Showcase

All AVs that succeeded with their Honours
applications, plus the award winners and
acceptances in the PSSA National AV Salon,
will be showcased in a zoom meeting host-
ed by AV Makers SA.
Time: March 16, 2024 at 10:00 .

Click here for the zoom link. All welcome.

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