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Upcoming Club Meeting(s):
<Christmas break>
Tuesday April 24, 2012
Tuesday May 22, 2012
Tuesday June 26, 2012
2495 Arbutus Road
Victoria, BC
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Annual Banquet 2012
April 20, 2012
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| Berwick Royal Oak Theatre |
The Banquet was a resounding
success. We were made to feel very welcome at Berwick House, with a reception from noon to 1:00pm in the Sheild & Dragon
pub. We proceeded down to the dining room for a delicious meal and more conversation. At 2:00pm we took a short break and
reconviened in the theatre at Berwick House.
The 48 Video club members
and guests then were joined by a number of residents in the 125 seat theater. Margarget welcomed everyone to the event
and soon the movies, prepared on DVD by David Fuller, were rolling.
There was applause, laughter and appreciative comments
during the movies and the event wrapped up as a fitting tribute to the 70th anniversary banquet of the Victoria Video Club.
On behalf of club members, a big round of appaluse to
Margaret Chamberlain, for chairing the banquet, and for being the driving force to get the event organzied and coordinated.
Thanks also go out to Michael Veronneau, Stan Coe, Mila Werbik, Paul Thomas, Les Desfosses and to Helen Brown and Debby Macmurchie,
marketing manager and recreation manager at Berwick House.
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Movie Awards 2011
December 29, 2011
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| One Day in Venice |
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| Down the Mekong River |
The American International Film and Video Festival has been running since 1930. It has been organized and
juried by the American Motion Picture Society since 1990. The Ten Best of the West started in 1956 by George Cushman and has
had a long history and has been organized a few times by the Victoria Video Club.
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Source for Video Footage, and more...!
Thursday July 15, 2010
| Royalty-free stock photos |
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| and footage. Sell your own! |
Yes, you could sit out under the stars trying to capture a nice star-scape...but if you really
need some footage, and would prefer to avoid the chance for encournters of the close kind with wild animals...why not check
out a source of footage online. One source to look at is Can Stock Photo. Although they specialize in photographs, they also carry a good amount of video footage. And if you do end up sitting out
in the dark capturing some great footage, then you can also post your footage on their site for sale. Check them out at: www.canstockphoto.com
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Club Member Wins BIAFF Award...!
Monday April 12, 2010
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| Rails to Sails by Margaret Chamberlain |
The BIAFF is held each spring and shows the best amateur movies and AV sequences from the UK
and overseas. Films are show in several cinemas, with a select few presented at the gala event. This festival is put on by
the IAC (Institute of Amateur Cinematographers), just one of the events that this organization runs each year.
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SCCA's Panorama
The Society of Canadian Cine Amateurs (SCCA) is a non-profit organization that
promotes the arts and science of amateur movie production. Our club is a member of the SCCA, and contributes information about
club activities and articles to the SCCA's publication called Panorama.
Take a moment to visit the SCCA website to see what is new, and enjoy this great newsletter.
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It does not matter whether you are taking video of family activities, making
a mini-documentary, or creating a music video for a school band, you can learn to make them better with us. Don't tranquilize
your friends and family! Drop into one of our monthly club meetings to find out more...
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 The Victoria Video Club is an amateur video production club, based in Victoria, British
Columbia, Canada. The club currently has about 24 members.
Our club is open to anyone interested in amateur video production. If you have been looking for a way to
improve your video shooting and editing, or just want to see what other people are producing, then drop in to a club
meeting, check out our extensive book and instructional library, and discuss making movies with like-minded enthusiasts.
We are fortunate to have members who use a range of editing platforms and software solutions---so no
matter what type of camera you are using or computer for editing you are likely to find someone using the same or similar
equipment---including:
- Macrosystems: Casablanca series of video editing systems
- Macintosh: Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Pro Express, and iMovie HD;
- PC-based: Adobe Premier Pro & Premier Elements, Pinnacle Studio and Magix Movie Edit
Pro;
- Sony, Canon, Panasonic and JVC camcorders---including high
definition cameras that shoot in HDV and AVCHD formats.
The club's activities include social occasions (dinners and get togethers around town), but our
core goal is to improve our video productions through skill improvement. Shooting technique, editing tools and resources,
scriptwriting, working with actors (be they your grandchildren or other enthusiastic volunteers) are all topics that
come up in our conversations.
The club meetings include screening of videos produced by club members and also by members of other
clubs that participate in an exchange program. Often we return the exchanged videos with summaries of our praise and suggestions
for improvements. Constructive criticism is key.
Another benefit of membership is that the club participates in several user group programs with publishers:
entitling member to discounts of 30% and 35% off the price of books dealing with video making and editing. Drop in to
one of our meetings and learn more about the club...!
| Great site for Digital Video & Audio books |
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