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Next Club Meeting(s): [Christmas Break] Tuesday, January 26, 2009 Tuesday, February 23, 2009  (more information)   Goward House [external link] 2495 Arbutus Road Victoria, BC

Club Christmas Luncheon  Saturday December 5, 2009 Crystal Jade Restaurant Victoria Video Club Members Thank you again goes out to Mila, for kindly organizing the club's Christmas luncheon at the Crystal Jade Restaurant. on Saturday December 5th. Thirteen members were able to make it for the buffet-style lunch. Conversation ranged from Christmas plans to camcorder details, and a good time was had by all.

"Video Made on a Mac..."  Wednesday December 2, 2009  August 2009 Peachpit Press Editing on the Mac is like entering battle with all the latest weaponry. You feel assured of victory: "Sir, that movie will get edited, Sir!" So, there you are with some amazing software tools, and even some great training on each tool.  But just like in battle, some things tend to break down---like the communication between groups of soldiers, er, I mean tools.  Enter "Video Made on a Mac: Production and Post Production Using Apple Final Cut Studio and Adobe Creative Suite" by Richard Harrington and Robbie Carman. They don't take you to boot camp...'cause you already know the basics, instead you jump to marine training, as they show you how to link your high level weapons (er, software tools) together to improve your movie making.  And Peachpit is so confident that you'll want the whole book (and 5 hours of training videos, plus project files) that they are making available a number of excerpts of the material from this publication (courtesy of a number of web sites...like this one) for people to view for themselves.  And when you do buy, make sure to check out their user group discount of 35% off the price.   We are hosting these excerpts (and some videos) on our site...so click here to start reading.... "Attention, forward march...!"

"Gin & Tonic" Wins SCCA's Best Club Video of 2009 Wednesday November 25, 2009  The club received another honour—this time the club's production of "Gin and Tonic" was the receipient of the Class "D" - The Garlick Trophy in the 2009 Society of Canadian Cine Amateurs' (SCCA) Annual Contest. The Garlick Tropy is awarded to the best SCCA Club film/video of the year. Congratulation to Director, Crew and Cast: Michael Veronneau, Margaret Chamberlain, David Fuller, Gord Wicks, Alice Thomas, Philip Pryce-Jones and Annie Spracklen.  For the background on this club production, that was originally printed in the SCCA's Panorma newsletter, click the link below: Read Gin & Tonic article... Additional awards in this contest were: Class "A": 3rd Runner Up: Margaret Chamberlain for "From Rails to Sails" Best Dialog in a Video: Victoria Video Club for "Gin & Tonic" Class "F" Winner: David Fuller for "Bug Off" Class "B" 1st Runner Up: Mila Werbik for "What a Wonderful World" Well done everyone...! The SCCA was established in 1968, and is a non-profit organization that promotes the arts and sciences of amateur movie production. For more information on the SCCA visit http://s-c-c-a.ca/

Awards for Club Members Tuesday November 24, 2009  From Rails to Sails by Margaret Chamberlain Club member's Margaret Chamberlain and David Fuller were delighted to hear that entries that they had submitted to AMMA had received awards.  Margaret had submitted "From Rails to Sails" and David had submitted "Dave's Dawgs." Both videos took honours in the North American Movie Maker Awards'  (NAMMA) "The Ten Best 2009," a contest that selected the ten best movies from all the submissions made for the annual contest. Movies are not ranked, but rather they are considered equal, among the"Ten Best."  Dave wrote an entertaining article, which was originally published by AMMA, about "The Making of Dave's Dawgs."  You can read a copy of that article by clicking the link below: click here to read Dave's article. Dave's Dawgs by David Fuller In addition, Margaret's movie received a certificate of merit in The American International Film and Video Festival (AIFVF) 2009 contest. The contest celebrated it's 80th Anniversary this year. To read more about these contests and the organization that sponsored them, please visit the American Motion Picture Society website. And congratulations to both David and Margaret on their winning entries..!

Music and Sound Effects  Friday November 6, 2009 Folks, for a range of royalty-free music, sound effects and soundtracks why not check out the Partners in Rhyme website. There is a fair amount of free sound effects and video files to discover too.    Stock Music and Sound Effects Download the music and sound effects you need for your multimedia project today at Partners In Rhyme.

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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