IAC DISCUSSION FORUMS

Is it just we older hands who prefer a live event? I was going to say "No" when I realised I am one of those "older hands". Despite not attending myself this year (which turned out to be just as well as, for family reasons, I'd have had to travel back home Friday night anyway) I...

I suspect the distiction has blurred to have become meaningless and I wonder if it is today more relevant to the audience than the product itself. Here's a hypoythesis: Audiences for AV expect very high quality images and sound, used creatively to illustrate an interesting narrative (be that drama, ...

Jill, much better to put stuff on Vimeo. Unless you want people to come across it when searching :wink: In the same way VHS won against the technically superior Betamax, YouTube beat Vimeo in popularity and therefore liklihood of your film being seen. I'm not sure the technical agruments hold water...

I just returned home to discover two packages. One containing my usual copy of FVM and another containing a further TWO copies. I can only assume someone erroneously has my name as recipient for a club - though which club, I have no idea!

it did make me think there's room for a + and - system to be put in place Tom, putting such a system in place for films where one panel sees every film and has time to analyse in detail (and possibly watch again) would make sense, but i'd suggest that even with the heroic attempts to standardize ju...

I'd start here, Jill: https://support.google.com/youtube/answ ... er-than-gb, Jill:

Mustn't argue with the referees of course, but I did feel that for one film they didn't quite "get it" ( down to me as the maker I guess!) This is a potential problem with any viewer, not just judges. I could bore you with tales of a film I made several years ago with a pair of twins and ...

Albert Noble wrote: ↑Sun Mar 05, 2023 10:09 am Shakespeare, Constable, Beethoven, etc all worked alone too.

Though quite a lot of Shakespeare's and Beethoven's work required several others for it to be appreciated by the masses

That site you mention is so out of date it isn't true! Just to be clear the "site" is not a repository of information. It uses artificial intelligence to create conversations but draws on lots of other resources. As these resources include books and sites such as reddit (but apparently no...

AI Chatbots are hitting the headlines. I've just been playing with ChatGPT which is really impressive in many ways. Whilst it is not designed to be a search engine (indeed it's not designed to be anything except a research project) I thought I'd ask it about our world. It didn't know of any IAC in t...

Here is an edited version of Brahms Hungarian dance No7 to be used in an animated dance film, "Pin up," to illustrate the piano in Playscore2. Funnily enough the perfomance is very good (as in believable) but there are issues with some buzzing on the audio (which until i listened with hea...

No difference in outlook Tim. Both want to satisfy an audience, both want to add to a portfolio of work (You Tube, Vimeo), both compete with fellow film makers to appeal to judges. As to the subject of the film, I can't see any difference between a personal choice or one suggested by others. I thin...

No Tim, I don't think it is "a different outlook". We are film makers, whether we wish o make a career out of it or not. The aim of the activity is identical, to make good films. That is the aim of both, yes, but for we amateurs, that is it. We aim to make the best film we possibly can ba...

I promise this is the last time I will write this; a start will be a specific student section of BIAFF juried by academics and industry professionals with generous rewards. Ned, I agree with Michael - if it's what you (and many others believe) then you owe it to yourself/"the cause" to ar...

This rather sadly, the screenings will be largely on sites such as YouTube. It is not the same as a large screen presentation, but that seems to be the way it is all going. is the bigger picture . We can whinge al we like about clubs not attracting members and speculate as to what we need to do to ...