While the first two videos were fine, I also felt that they were limited by their length and limited amount of visuals, so during the attempt to make a third narrative, I also decided to expand the range of visuals.
Hoping to create an upbeat, moderately paced version I recalled that one of my favourite pieces of music to listen to on the way to or from college was Professor Longhair's 'Go To The Mardi Gras' from 1959, a great piece of New Orleans carnival music, and one that never fails to put a smile on my face.
I liked it so much in fact, that when the 12 images were done, I wanted to add more and changed
the story accordingly, to one where I walked to college but at the last moment decided to go for a walk around town instead, and the new version of the narrative shows the places I went, and the things I saw.
There was a brief gap at the start of the recording and rather than edit this from the track, I decided
to add a very rough countdown effect so that the visuals and the music kicked in at the same time. Having added this 'vintage' visual cue, I began to add a grainy film effect to each still and upped the exposure as well, created a slightly aged, washed out effect. Even if the listener is not familiar with the piece of music, it sounds old and authentic and adapting the imagery to match this seemed to be a logical step, even if said visuals where full of contemporary objects.
The track has an intro and a break (about 30 seconds in) and I matched these changes in rhythm to the tempo of the visuals to try and create a more consistent result. Given more time, I would happily expand this version beyond the first 30 seconds of the track, but the relatively fast tempo had already used up a number of photos from my personal archive.
With this new, wider range of visuals, the narrative felt more complete and expansive and also (vaguely) resembled the still images from the opening credits to HBO's 'Treme', which I had already looked at in my research, and was also the show that had introduced me to the Professor Longhair track and the Ken Burns effect before I knew what it was called.
Link to Treme opening credits on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWaFD4S00mc
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