Please click on the links below to view the videos at Vimeo:
NOTE: At the time of writing, there appears to be an issue with the fade effect on these videos. New links will be posted when this has been fixed.
These ‘animations’ were initiated in PowerPoint,
as at some point I had noticed that among the mostly cheesy ‘transition’
effects there was a ‘fade’ option. Following on from the failure of the
polaroid tests, I still wanted to try and create a moving visual of some
description that featured images fading in and out of the page and / or each
other, to represent people fading from memory and the way that memories often
blur together and are less than reliable. Using PowerPoint for this was
probably not what it was intended for, but it allowed me the degree of control
over the images and their movement that I needed and did not involve any steep
learning curves that I normally experience with learning new software.
With ‘Fade test 2’ I chose to have two
images side by side, so that one would fade out but start to appear in the
frame opposite, potentially creating new or random associations and narratives.
The video is designed to loop back around and continue on.
‘Fade test 3 backgrounds’ is the same set
of images but with rough backgrounds added to attempt to distract / overload
the viewer and further explore ideas memories and context. I don’t think this
version is that successful, mainly due to the inconsistency of the background
images. A better result might have been achieved if I had restricted the extra
imagery to something simpler such as photo corners or variations of the same
page.
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