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Jeffry Abt

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Well since most like it here, I hate to say and it will probably ratlle some cages, but hey, it's a public forum and variety is the spice of life apparently! I find these moving image thingys are painful to watch. Tedious at best. It's not a bandwagon I hope lasts. I really hope it's a fad.

 

Making photographs that people want to look at is one thing. Making music that people want to listen to is another. Combine the two and it's generally a recipe that only the most loving of mothers can stomach. I think back to being strapped down in the chair through Uncle Jims Slide show nights complete with irrelevant but jolly organ lounge music sound track; I really don't see much different.

 

The music, the fades, the black frame, the cheesy questions and statements, all that imposed nostalgia, take all that away and what is left? All that was missing from this one was the seemingly obligatory slow motion of a girls hair blowing in the wind.

 

The first one dissects what makes a photo and then doesn't actually say anything except for the fact it doesn't move. Since people have been making films for, oh I don't know, about a hundred and twenty years or so, that's not entirely something we hadn't considered already. :rolleyes:

 

The second one was about a touristy shopping mall in Beverly Hills with a sound track that sounds like it should be advertising a funeral home....that was burnt down. What was all that about?

 

The music is always the same on these things. Mostly generic and imposing some kind of ideal or nostalgia that I just can't see in the pictures. It doesn't even let you let you think about the pictures for yourself and the over riding music leaves you glazed over and feeling, somehow, like you've watched something with substance.

 

Give me a break. :rolleyes::):D

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Just a question. Must you own the rights to the music that you post on You Tube? If so, that complicates things. To pass Paul's smell test, I'll need to become a music producer as well. Producing the video is difficult enough.

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Just a question. Must you own the rights to the music that you post on You Tube? If so, that complicates things. To pass Paul's smell test, I'll need to become a music producer as well. Producing the video is difficult enough.

 

You do have to at least have permission to use the music (no-one here would think it was ok to 'borrow' someone else's photographs for their projects - musicians generally feel the same way). However, online services like Soundcloud have a multitude of Creative Commons compositions - free to use for non-commercial purposes. Just filter by the appropriate tags, and don't forget to give credit when you use someone's creation.

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