IAC Yearbook???

[Cinema For Thurso Group]

Okay so where is this illusive publication. I filled in a form at the start
of this year and sit waiting. hmm!

[Dave Watterson]

"Cinema For Thurso Group" <forums@theiac.org.uk> wrote:

Okay so where is this illusive publication. I filled in a form at the start
of this year and sit waiting. hmm!

Hi CFT,

I have only just spotted this posting though it seems to have been on the
forum for a while.

The yearbook is no more. It has turned up ts tootsies and gone to join the
choir invisible. It is an ex-yearbook.

I guess you do not see "Film & Video Maker" - the IAC magazine. Its May
issue, the one with the IAC Festival results in, had an explanation from
the Chairman. The commercial company who were going to produce it could
not get sufficient advertising revenue and so withdrew from the deal. IAC
could not afford to publish it themselves. The data generated will probably
emerge in various ways through the year.

Everyone is very disappointed because hundreds of people had done a lot of
work filling in forms, writing articles and so on.

What are you up to this summer?

Dave

[Cinema For Thurso Group]

What are you up to this summer?

Well now you ask, I'm booting my backside to get on with the visual effects
and remaining filming for "Bilbster Adventure".
As is, none-the-less there has been a huge leap followed by some bounding
with our PIP system which enables effects to be produced and returned to
super 8mm.
The 65mm PIP format (which can be perforated and run on 70mm projectors-
we checked it out a couple of days ago) is a handy, affordable and econimic
way of putting together all kinds of opticals for film. As you may know CFT
is geared towards film for cinema presentation although we do use digital
video in other areas.
In mainstream movies you will see titles, animation effects on live-action
and optically composited effects. With the exception of titles the other
stuff hasn't really been accessable to the amateur but we found away by simply
adapting our existing photographic hardware for the pc- no video editing
here!
When we wrote the article for FVM last year we only had one version of PIP.
Although all the PIP sections look the same to the untrained eye there are
now 5 types of PIP.

PIP-st Regular PIP section prints containing live-action composites, live-action
with overlaid animation effects
and live-action with multi-layer compositing and or animation.
PIP-R Movie formated still backgrounds (without being filmed on movie footage)
for compositing live-action and or
animation or for scene desolves. It can also be used for adding subtitles
to scenes. 'R' type enables
backgrounds to be produced from various sources such as composited
slides and negatives and hand drawn
artwork to complete a scene. Rendering in this process retains image
quality to a higher degree and reduces
the amount of super 8mm used at production stage.
PIP-T For inanimate Titling- each frame holding one 'title' scene, e.g.
basic block credit on end of film trailers.

PIP-S For title sections without frame bars to enable rolling credits.

PIP-An For animation of standard text for titles in a design capacity.

All the above PIP types can be additionally used together in a variety of
ways and are reprinted into super 8 finished prints in an optical editing
stage which includes optical reprinting of camera original footage.
This system enables filming to continue without additional production headaches
of setting up trick shots. All footage is filmed in the regular manner whether
it is for effects or straight live-action. It is possible to film for scenes
and locations that either cannot affordable or practically be created in
real life. People can be added to model shots and real-life elements can
be added to artwork, models or stills to bring a shot to life. Animated charactors
or stop-motion models can also be added. Spaceships or plains and even people
can fly (harness and 'A' frame job there).

At the moment I'm working thru special effects for "Bilbster Adventure"
and a special CFT 20th Anniversary logo. The logo is being made entirely
from still images desolving by selective sections to reach a new version
of our logo (we decided to change the background because it's too dark and
uses lots of ink when printing).
What am I up to this summer?
Aren't you glad you asked?