LOL I hadn’t read all the way down to see you had already completed the whole event. Sounds like it was a great experience for everyone.
]]>Never done one for a bus ride but have experienced the pressure to be true to the person and engage everyone in going down memory lane and honour an important person in their lives. It is indeed a labour of love.
I have a few suggestions to consider. I hope it’s helpful.
Just getting audio quotes from her friends might work. It’s easier to schedule since just a good mike, digital audio recorder and quiet location instead of a camera, lighting, microphone, etc. It’s less cumbersome in the editing process. It can be used over any visuals of your Mom since their comments are about her. Audio is the one aspect of video that escapes the screen and enters the room with the viewer. Their voices can convey the warmth of their friendship with her.
Wish you the best. Happy birthday to your Mom
]]>These are great, Naomi! Think I’ll share them on my FB page. Thanks!
]]>Since I didn’t post a link to the video, instead I’ll offer takeaways…
Ok, so people rent buses & they have like 6 flatscreens all over the bus with excellent sound systems that make your music soundtrack sound awesome…
When people are on a bus they are a captive audience, literally…They are paying attention & laugh at the appropriate moments & clap when it ends…Make it good…You will be rewarded…
An entrepreneurial artist could put together a video with soundtrack that the bus could play WHILE driving people through an art gallery village area…We had my aunt, a soprano opera singer, narrate live with a microphone the bus company provided…About all the artistic sites we were seeing & going to see, at our destination town…
My film was 10 minutes long…Exactly right for the bus…I have done enough videos to be able to gauge attention span for a venue…Bus attention seemed right on for 10 minutes…Could have been longer even…They get bored just looking out the window…
NTSC…When you burn the movie to DVD disc, Not CD-ROM disc or you will be really disappointed when it won’t play on a DVD player, make sure the specs are the same as the DVD player it is going to be played on…Check with the venue…(or bus company)
Aspect Ratio & Text…Depending on the aspect ratio of the flat screen tv or monitor your DVD will be played on, text slides can get cut off at the edges…If you want to play it safe just make your text slides really short…If not, check…
When we replayed the DVD on the DVD player at the bed & breakfast for some new partygoers who had arrived for the cocktail portion of the day, the aspect ratio was different & wow oops the DVD played in Black & white instead of in colour…Lesson here is if you can possibly play the movie on the new player Before playing for the first time to an audience…I mean it’s a no brainer, but it was hard for me because we were 2 hours away from home, & only there for 24 hours…10 extra minutes before the guests arrived for cocktails would have saved me…Instead I took a power nap…
Humans like to see humans…I was amazed at the response…When I show art videos, the response gaze is not as attentive…People seem to really like looking at pictures of other people…Possibly another no brainer, but if you do purely art videos, maybe stick some humans in…
Music:Great music can save so so visuals…The Animoto music library has original songs you can pay to use…legally…Do it right…Pay for your music…Don’t “borrow” & don’t use mediocre tunes…It really makes a big difference…
These private party buses are a whole new thing…Get into it…You’re welcome! 🙂
]]>Nice! What a lovely gift for your mother, Sari.
]]>I have been making videos of my practice for a few years now. It started out as a suggestion of a way to capture my large scale installations, since I was having trouble capturing them in individual photographs. In a panning shot, I could take in the whole thing. Early on my camera was low quality, but I now have a camera that records in HD, so I am improving the quality over time. I’m also learning great stuff about the best way to edit things together, finding royalty-free music, etc. It’s been a fun process.
More than those practicalities, I have found it has pushed me further in my practice too. My work is so physical because of its sheer size (painting at large scale directly onto wall floor and ceiling), being able to see myself moving has given way to more ideas.
I have always enjoyed the ART21 format for videos, their pacing and the way they’re edited. But I’ve never been quite confident enough to record myself waxing lyrical about my art. I think I am moving toward that though, it could be fun!
Last year I had a show where I was given the security footage of me installing by the gallery. I have only just now had the time and the computer power to do something with it, and I made a Time Lapse – https://vimeo.com/132092193
Also, because of the nature of my work, when I deinstall a show, I have to quite literally rip the work from the walls and floor. The sound is WONDERFUL! 🙂
Here’s the video of the deinstall – https://vimeo.com/132297556
[vimeo 64203678 w=500 h=216] Pamela Wilson / Artist profile film series from EVOKE Contemporary on Vimeo.
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