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YAHM! (Yet Another Holiday Movie)
Still got tons of pics from the last vacation in East Algarve. It becomes increasingly frustrating trying to decide what to do with them (do I need to do anything with them?)
Anyway, the stills were stitched together in PhotoStory3 then imported into MovieMaker to add titles, credits, a couple of video clips and music. Now what am I going to do with the rest???
Ambient music: 'Sunshine' by Diatonis
Video duration: 3 mins 10 secs.
  • Jan Goverts 3 months ago
    Hi James,
    We all suffer from this luxury phenomenon.
    Eather go back to a 128Kb memory card or just keep the best ones.

    Recently I have started to use the video function of my camera and have come to a compromise of more video and supplementing pics.

    Always be careful and initially save the pics from family and friends.

    Rgds,
    Jan
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  • James Tate 3 months ago
    Hi Jan, good to see you back here again. I was going to comment on your last video - curious about how the car came to be there. Good tip on resizing, thanks.
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  • Ray Anderson 3 months ago
    James! What in the world are you up to?! Those seas rolling in with their own music, those evocations of dead sailors (I'm a sailor, but I don't take it personally), the streets--at first I thought they were a mistake, but their emptiness is just right. I'm not kidding, this is the first time I've had a true urge to visit the country of my ancestors. Lovely, just lovely.
  • James Tate 3 months ago
    Thanks for your words Ray. I have to say that there is a lot of planned symbolism in this but I'm always reluctant to spell it out because the symbolism is in my mind and will just sound pretentious to others. The opening and closing 'doors' are obvious. The three vessels depict the move from dereliction to 'much better' - more seaworthy. That's to do with the face-lift the town has had to cater for the growing tourist market. The streets look pretty new but they're mostly empty - ready and waiting for the flood of cash-injecting tourists (actually it was early Sunday morning). One scene shows an old roof with a hole in it - to depict that they're not quite there yet! I did take time to sift through all the surplus images and look for links or 'stories' and this is the best I could come up with. Pretty contrived I know but in the end it's a lovely town worth visiting.
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  • Ray Anderson 3 months ago
    Not much chance, James, that I'd catch your specific narrative, but the fact that there is a narrative, and thus a rhythm and a conscious sequencing, and a logic to the music (did you fit the seas rolling in to passages in the music, or was that sound imported specially?), allows the viewer to fit his own narrative to the clip. Plus your usual lingering, contemplative feeling for simple things--those anchors, which you brought back for an encore--like head-stones for dead sailors. All this better than a run-of-the-mill YAHM.
  • James Tate 3 months ago
    Ray, I think you get more from this than I do. Wish I could see things with your analytical eye. On a technical note; the breaking waves video clips were inserted in Movie maker and they had their own native sound which appears on the Audio track in Movie maker. The music is added to the Audio/Music track below that so the final result merges the wave sounds with the music. As for the anchors (like pointing arrows)...I drew the line at mentioning that they were symbolic of the town 'moving forward'...I can only take so much of my own schmaltz. Incidentally, I had you pegged as being from Scots ancestry - is there Portuguese in there too?
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  • Ray Anderson 3 months ago
    One man's schmaltz is another man's poetry. I do indeed get a sense of what you can do from your otherwise modest exercises (and your perceptive comments about my efforts), which is why I want to push you harder in the direction of your Kerouac piece. And thanks for the tip re the surf sounds and WMM. No Portuguese, although I'm aware that Anderson is a common enough given name in Brazil and continue to wonder why. (Don't waste your time or Vimeo's--I'll try Google.)
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