IAC DISCUSSION FORUMS

We were privileged to join Ken and Carol Wilson last weekend assessing the entries in the Phase 4 British Fiction Film Competition . For ages people have complained that we are a nation of documentary makers - and we do make fine documentaries - but that we have lost the art of telling stories. B * ...

The display device has no way of knowing the aspect ratio of the signal and must be informed either by a user setting or automatically ... by a signal on pin 8 of a SCART connector or a code embedded into line 23 of a video frame. This is currently a problem for a great many film makers. Trying to ...

I think we have reached a sensible end to this aspect of the thread now. My thanks to both CforT and BlueAV for interesting points on film preservation and introducing me to "vinegaring" - a subject I knew nothing about before. We drifted along a side road from the main topic a little bit,...

(**That's hillarious! the forum has replaced s e x, with meaningful physical relationship, but left porn intact!) Just to explain ... there was a time when we had a few messages posted promoting porn sites so we set the forum up to change certain words. We never found a porn posting with "mean...

As Willy says, we are in a recession ...

Our Australian friend, Noel Leeder, passed on this link which shows how the comedians John Fortune and John Bird anticipated and explained the background to this financial mess:

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/187.html

Dave

I once saw at first hand a hard working, honest and well intentioned office bearer brought to the point of resignation by the aggresive actions of one individual raising spurious and hostile criticisms at an AGM. A good point, Brian. I had in mind a light-hearted "roasting" in the America...

Comments from Ned and CforT prompt me to remind everyone that the IAC does have a video library with a wide selection of movies that can be hired. You can find details on the main website - click the link on the left marked "Video Library".

- Dave

Actually as IAC is both a limited company and a charity it is doubly required to have an AGM ... but my question was about how to make them less dull, how to involve people more. Derek, you know finances like the rest of us know sandwiches. You, no doubt, make sense of the accounts presented and wou...

I had better nip in quickly in case anyone does not realise that though Ned now lives in the USA he is British. He lived and worked here most of his life. He is not some foreigner speaking about something he does not understand! It is true that if you search with Google for "amateur film" ...

Thinking about something else entirely, I suddenly wondered if we should call ourselves no- or low-budget film makers rather than amateurs, non-commercial and so on? It is a simple, descriptive term which does not imply anything about the quality of our work. In some parts of the world the term &quo...

Thinking about the IAC AGM coming up soon I began to wonder ... The IAC like most of its member clubs surrounds its AGM with events designed to attract people. The assumption is that the formal business of an AGM is boring. Accepting that we do need such additional "bribes" to make us atte...

The main website should have the AMPS results up soon, but for those forum users who cannot wait, here they are. Several regular contributors appear on the prize list, congratulations. There were 64 entries. General 1st Place Willy Van der Linden Belgium "Will Ye Go to Flanders?" Documenta...

Having a link to (say) You Tube is the same as 'embeding' the code which is what I have done on our site. A simple link to Youtube which behind the scenes goes: "http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=..." where the part after the = is a long jumble of letters and digits, takes your viewers over t...

“What do systems do members of the IAC use to put their videos on to their web sites. Are they free or do you have to pay and how much”. This could be very interesting, Pete. Few clubs host videos on their own websites because the files are large and use a lot of their web-space allowance - but esp...

[Note: this was posted to another thread - not by me but by Pete Stedman. It fitted so perfectly here that I moved it - Dave.] The Chippenham Movie & Video Club have updated and re-launched their web site (well I did it to be honest) and it has a new name so here it is http://www.starvideo.me.u...