A BUSY WEEK AT COMPUTER PALS

It certainly has been a busy week for us at ComputerPals.

Started on Tuesday at ASCCA's 15th Australian Computer Conference at Rydges World Tower Hotel in Sydney................................

Nan Bosler OA welcomed us to the Conference. Our Club had a large number of delegates attending the two-day conference that attracted delegates from all over Australia. Two speakers even attended from Hawaii.

We especially enjoyed the hot lunches
each day

The speakers and exhibitors were impressive, especially The Gadget Man, Peter Blasina talking about new technology, Joy Murrin about researching Family History, and Trish Levido telling us about recording Oral History.
Our Club was successful with awards to Bev Pieremont, Judith Joyce and Jon Bayley, who all did us proud winning prizes for stories, poem and landscape photo.

Then it was Thursday, with Trainer Deborah and myself starting a four-week training course on Android Tables for Beginners.

Wow!  A record number of 15 tablet loving members enrolled in the course to learn how to set up and use their new android tablet. Trainer Deborah and me were flat out for two hours, and will be glad when trainer Hazel returns for day two next week.

Now its Friday morning....the regular monthly meeting of members -

Keith South showing members his recently completed book of his life story. Keith had previously written his life story on Word and.as a result of attending Hazel's recent Photobook Course, was able to transfer the Word document and photos into a wonderful book. Well done Keith!

Popular Maureen Neilsen was given the Mug of the Month by President Deborah. Maureen is a long-time member,has introduced her friends to our Club, and is one of our Facebook users.

                                        Bev, Jon and Judy with their ASCCA certificates.

Finally, on Friday afternoon members of the Club's Special Interest Groups for Digital Photography and Film Making met up at Parramatta River to help Judy video her  short film about the Burramattagal people, who lived here along the upper reaches of the river. 

We soon learnt that taking suitable video was not as easy as we all thought! We eventually staggered back up from the River and walked back to our Club where we all discussed today's film making .

We learnt -

1. Be able to read camera window in sunlight.

2. More variety in shots

3. We didn’t have enough shots planned. Need to scout area first.

4. Useful to have one director with megaphone.

5. We need assigned roles e.g. Audio specialist, person to carry the gear, director, camera operator etc..

6. Have a back pack to carry gear.

7. Attention to continuity e.g. carry handbag in the same hand in the one scene.

8. Variety in shots.

9. Difficulty in seeing on the screen what one was filming.

       Know your equipment.

    Need to announce start of filming and "cut" when stopping.

   

     What a week!

    

    

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