AV Peter

Comment from Ruth
Time: December 14, 2007, 6:03 am

Hi Peter,

Thank you for letting us download your wonderful AV’s. I would particularly like a copy of ‘Striped Pyjamas’ which I think was shown in Albury a month ago at the Australian Photographic Society Convention as I would like to show it to the members of our Camera Club. I am the convenor of the newly formed audio visual group and would like to be able to show a high standard production so we know what can be achieved. I have seen some of your AVs on You Tube but unfortunately the resolution is not nearly good enough for our purposes.

I am new at AV making but have also downloaded my work on You Tube using the name ‘fotoandfun’.

Regards,

Ruth

I will send you a copy - it seems to be the most popular Sequence on the youtube site, having been viewed by over twice as amny as any other Sequence.
I would value any comments you have, particularly on my latest creation “Your Star”, as this one is still being moderated.

Comment from Ruth
Time: December 17, 2007, 3:11 am

<p><p><p><p>Hi Peter,</p><br /><br /><br />
<p>This is a comment on ‘Your Star’. </p><br /><br /><br />
<p>I love the way you have integrated philosophy and science into this very creative and thought provoking audio visual. The poem you created and the story telling is excellent and I think the whole of the beginning and the way you introduce ‘the bombshell’ is brilliant. You have included many senses and these stimulate thoughts, which you illustrate with your beautiful photographs. The music and sounds blend extremely well with the words and images and you capture my attention right till the image of the wooden apples and the faces appearing, when you say ‘And the greatest of these is Love’ and then ‘a quotation from Descartes in the C17th. This feels to me like a great ending to the AV and I found the rest was on a slightly different topic and would be tempted to stop there. </p><br /><br /><br />
<p>I like the multilayer movements of abstract images when they are used at sections when you question, as for me the movement is disconcerting and signifies blurring of memory. I would like to have time to absorb some of the statements you make, by perhaps dwelling longer on some of your realistic and beautiful images at other parts. For example, I like the section in your poem where you have a rose appearing. It really does illustrate a new thought evolving. </p><br /><br /><br />
<p>I would shorten the AV a little, leaving some to make another AV, reduce some of the movement when we need time to reflect and leave time to concentrate on some of your realistic and beautiful images. </p><br /><br /><br />
<p>Otherwise, I think this is brilliant. </p><br /><br /><br />
<p>I am very new to AV and will take a long time before I can make one which is even acceptable but hope that my comments as a viewer in your audience can help. </p><br /><br /><br />
<p>Thank youi,<br /><br /><br /><br />
Ruth</p></p><br /><br />
<p>Many thanks for these most helpful comments; others have suggested an earlier ending at the precise point you think it should stop. The sonnet written for the Sequence has the couplet at the end. The couplet is for me an important part of the AV poem and was written first, as the whole point of the poem was to try to illustrate that we come from and return to God. We are not the matereial stuff we are made of - we are much more than this and far more important. However, I will try your suggested ending and see (and hear) what I think - well what I think I think !!!!!!!</p></p><br />
Well now, I have tried shortening it and I must admit that I think you are right.<br />
It had its first public showing in Leeds last Friday night and some (usually very critical) folk said how impressed they were - it made them think! So today it goes off to Trélazé in its shortened form - let’s see how the French like their French philosopher messed about with by a mere English amateur!</p>

Well now, some might care to note that the French in Trélazé did not like it enough to place it in the top half of their Sequences! I will try them again in a different part of France before giving up !!!!!!