RPS Distinctions

The RPS will be holding an assessment of Multimedia work, which includes all forms of AV and lm, in order to award distinctions at ‘L’, ‘A’ and ‘F’ levels.

This will be held at the new RPS House in Bristol on 4th November 2019. The work will be assessed in the auditorium using the new 4K projector and professional sound system.

Note that you do not need to, and should not, make your AVs at 4K, stick to a maximum of HD to ensure they play correctly.

The current assessment panel comprises Peter Hayes FRPS (Chair), Richard Brown FRPS, Ian Bateman FRPS, Martin Fry FRPS, Edgar Gibbs FRPS, Sheila Haycox ARPS and Howard Bagshaw ARPS.

The guidelines on all the distinctions can be downloaded from http://rps.org/ ~/media/Files/Distinctions/FRPS%20Guidelines.ashx

Details of the assessment, how and where to apply, are at http://rps.org/ events/2019/november/04/multimedia-assessment

Distinctions Advice

To assist and advise applicants about the process and standards, we will be holding a Multimedia Distinctions Advisory Day on 25th May 2019. This is being held at the Old Schoolhouse, Oldbury, from 10:00 – 16:00.

This is an opportunity to bring multimedia/AV work for advice on its suitability and standard for an RPS Distinction. The process and requirements for submitting work will be addressed and examples of previously successful AVs/lms will be shown. The main opportunity, however, will be to show your work to members of the Multimedia distinctions panel for their comments. Panel members will include Richard Brown FRPS and Howard Bagshaw ARPS. You can bring along a complete set of work which you are thinking of submitting, or an example or two to gain some idea of where this work stands in relation to the standards of the different RPS Distinctions.

We also welcome observers, who want to better understand the process of gaining a distinction and want to see what is expected for the different levels of distinction.

Please apply to attend the day, either as a observer or potential applicant, either by applying on the RPS website rps.org/events/2019/may/25/ multimedia-advisory-day , or email howard.bagshaw@ntlworld.com

The RPS National Audio Visual Championship will be held this year on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th October 2019.

The Championship will be held at Leeds Trinity University (LS18 5HD), a compact university, outside and north-west of Leeds city centre, offering easy parking and a modern and comfortable auditorium with refreshment facilities. There are a number of hotels nearby, as well as Leeds/Bradford Airport (should you wish to y up). The nearest hotel is the Premier Leeds/Bradford Airport Hotel. As has happened at the previous Nationals and Internationals, attendees are expected to make their own accommodation arrangements.

We anticipate plenty of entries, though we will try to avoid pre-selection if at all possible. We estimate that we will start on Saturday at around 10:00am and run through until around 5:30pm. As in the past, the RPS AV Group AGM will be held on Saturday, starting at 6:00pm. We are hoping to have a Championships dinner on Saturday in a local restaurant, hopefully on the same basis as previously, i.e. we will need to know numbers beforehand, but you will be able to choose your meal on the night.

Sunday projection will start at 10:00am and run through until mid -afternoon, followed by judging and presentation of awards. We would hope to nish by around 5:00pm

Our judges for this Championships are Keith Leedham (England), Bryan Stubbs (Yorkshire) and Jill K Bunting (Wales), who I'm sure you'll agree, will form an experienced and excellent jury.

Closing date for entries will be September 15 th and we hope to use the same systems as we used for the last NAVC, so you can enter and/or book to attend online if you wish. But we'll also take postal entries and bookings if you want.

Keep up to date with the event by looking at the website: www.rps.org/navc

Alastair Taylor ARPS CPAGB

Editing AV News can be something of a “Song and Dance” but it all comes together in the end and on this occasion I am delighted with the outcome. The words “Song and Dance” sum up this edition very well with two articles with this theme. Graham Sergeant provided me with some of the original images from his FRPS panel which he then went on to use in his successful AV The Dance Goes On. Melanie Chalk won this years East Anglia AV Competition with he AV Just Dance and has provided me with an interesting article and some lovely images. I hope you enjoy these.

You will also observe some presentational changes to AV News. Andrew Gagg has been a great help here and through his article, Finding my Voice you will see the direction we are taking the journal. I hope you like it. I am reminded that primarily, we are photographers, and even though some of our purist brethren don’t always appreciate that AV photography needs a different approach to help tell the story, I am planning to use AV News more and more to illustrate our wonderful art form. Do please keep sending me your photographs and articles. Don’t be scared of sharing your story; what inspired you; and what you did as photographer.

I haven't been to the new RPS head quarters in Bristol yet but look forward to a visit there at some point soon. The next round of RPS Distinctions in Multi Media might be a good opportunity and I look forward to viewing these in the new auditorium (pictured below). I hope to see you there.

Contact the editor at: magazine@avnews.org.uk

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