Slideshow Reflection

Up to this point I have not found a project more enjoyable.  In addition, I did not run into any of the technical demons that plagued our last two projects.  To begin with, a chose a relatively easy subject to track down, yet a subject that I didn’t know well enough to make it a boring, tedious day of following him.  I was able to check out a camera from the equipment room without any hassles and I was astounded to find out that it wasn’t just a meager 5.0 megapixel camera, but was actually a very high-end device.  Unfortunately, the capabilities of the camera caused the only problem I did run into on the project, which had to do with editing out many of my incredible amount of photos.  When I finally sat down to assemble my pictures into a coherent presentation I discovered that I had about 100 more pictures than I needed.  This was the most difficult part of process (save, maybe, for soothing the timid beast that is the SoundSlides program), taking a days worth of work and distilling it down to a reasonable amount of media to sum up an average day in someone’s life.  I can honestly say; however, that I wouldn’t change any of my techniques for the next time I attempted something like this, because the breadth of pictures I took and the detailed story that each told allowed me to work them into the audio in a more niche-specific way than if I’d only taken 50 or so photos.  This was definitely my favorite project thus far.