Help — Scotch isn’t helping anymore… need a vision

[Captain Mench]

aargh!

https://homepage.mac.com/captmench/Video_wall.mov

Sorry

CaptM

[Graham Quince]

A shame they don’t like the bounce. i do.

My experience of family projects is that as the family projects is that the things that wow us, are never the things that impress them. Trust me, stick a lens flare and some shine rays on the photos in 3D space and they will think it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread. It might not be showreel material and it’s certainly cheesy as hell.

Ayato’s got a nice photomosaic in 3D space.

Good luck

Graham

[Steve Roberts]

Can you just slow down the bounce? Possibly reduce the amplitude of the bounce? My experience shows that if the audience knows the people in the pictures, they want to see the people in the pictures.

Then use lens flares at transition points.
And shine, too. 🙂

Steve

[Aaron Strader]

I noticed you did a wipe from the wall of photos to the one image there at the end. Have you thought of doing that several times? Have it transition back to the wall of random photos between each picture transition. It’d be a different look. You could mix up the transitions, and blow through about 20 or so pictures from that set.

My experience on family photos, is despite their best intentions and insistence on including EVERY photo they give you, including similar looking photos is a bad idea. It’s the slideshow effect. Would you sit through a slideshow: “Here’s Marge and Me at the Grand Canyon. Now here’s us at the grand canyon wearing silly hats. Now we’re wearing silly hats and shirts.”

It gets old. My sister dumped 100+ photos to convert to a slide show for my mom’s 50th, and I had to toss half the pictures. There were a good 40 pictures that were retakes, or pictures taken at the same time with the dog, then the dog with a hat. I’d drop the dog w/ hat picture and move on. It made for more work for my sister (since she had to go find more unique photos), but it made the presentation a whole lot more bearable for the party guests.

[Captain Mench]

Wow — Aaron… YES! I like your idea VERY much. As much as I didn’t want to include every picture… and remember this is 20 minutes LONG! Most is actually video and not stills, but even so the segment is the very end of a final montage which is the end of a montage etc.

I’ve been working with the card wipe effect and just don’t have a good handle on it… hence the variable speed bouncing. I keep tweeking it.

But I will try keeping that moving in the background while bringing up other ‘important’ photos to drive the piece home.

Oh — and of course — MORE lense flares!!!

Thanks all!

CaptM

[David Johnson]

Thought it migh thelp to have one more opinion…as someone already said differently, your client probabaly doesn’t like the bounce because they can’t actually see the photos, but I’d bet they’d like it if it just slowed down or maybe even paused briefly on the best photos. Most clients don’t (or can’t) specify what they don’t like about an effect…just that they either like it or not. I often shown clients the same exact effect with some minor tweaking and they love something they previously hated.
I also concur about always having to drop some photos in those types of projects…the only other option is to accept the fact that you’ll constantly lose (and hopefully regain) your audiences attention throuhout the piece.

[Captain Mench]

Thanks.

Here’s what I’ve come up with…

BTW — I lost my LaCie 500G in the middle of this project!!! Ugh. Lost all the photos off the drive… luck was with me, I had to scan these on my wife’s computer and then burn and bring… so I had the CDs!!! All the video was lost… had to recapture etc.

I’ll learn one of these days… so, you’ll see which photos I couldn’t reclaim and I stopped treating the floating pics after a few … just to see how it looks for real. I’ll add more for final.

https://homepage.mac.com/captmench/Ending27APRv2.mov

CaptM