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Bently...just find something that works for you....try to follow the 5 to 8 second rule, and you'll be fine. And oh...simpletons' don't make the awesome things you do....my guess is you will scope this out and we will be enjoying some very good slide shows, very soon.
Back in the "old days" my hobby was making what was called "multi-media shows"...they were multiple slide projector shows set to music using one of the stereo tracks on a cassette deck for the projector change commands. They were a nightmare to make....the biggest I ever did was a three screen, seven projector show....it had about 500 slides and would have similar images, like a panorama that would cover all three screens at once several time during the presentation. I entered these in competition. I never did very well as I didn't have the money to buy all the equipment nor did I have the smarts to program it....The coolest one I ever saw was a 5 screen, 11 slide projector, 1 movie projector show about crop dusting. Just the control unit was 5k in 1982....after seeing that, is when I started playing with this. I played with that until digital came along in the early 2000's. In 2020 when I closed my studio to retire, I threw away thousands of dollars worth of equipment that just wasn't relevant any more....Some of those shows I saw literally gave me goosebumps....they were awesome, and scarey at the same time....there was a lot of mechanical moving parts.....and everything had to be timed just right. Power points still give me a little of the same thing today....when the music is right and images are also, there is still a "goosebump factor". I look forward to seeing your work.....especially one with a lot of your different pieces...I think you have great potential. Be sure to get good photos of all your work, the power points can come anytime...
PS---Projected shows are the way to go to get that impact....projectors are not nearly as much as they used to be....and it is just as easy as plugging in the projector and a "boom box" to your lap top.
Back in the "old days" my hobby was making what was called "multi-media shows"...they were multiple slide projector shows set to music using one of the stereo tracks on a cassette deck for the projector change commands. They were a nightmare to make....the biggest I ever did was a three screen, seven projector show....it had about 500 slides and would have similar images, like a panorama that would cover all three screens at once several time during the presentation. I entered these in competition. I never did very well as I didn't have the money to buy all the equipment nor did I have the smarts to program it....The coolest one I ever saw was a 5 screen, 11 slide projector, 1 movie projector show about crop dusting. Just the control unit was 5k in 1982....after seeing that, is when I started playing with this. I played with that until digital came along in the early 2000's. In 2020 when I closed my studio to retire, I threw away thousands of dollars worth of equipment that just wasn't relevant any more....Some of those shows I saw literally gave me goosebumps....they were awesome, and scarey at the same time....there was a lot of mechanical moving parts.....and everything had to be timed just right. Power points still give me a little of the same thing today....when the music is right and images are also, there is still a "goosebump factor". I look forward to seeing your work.....especially one with a lot of your different pieces...I think you have great potential. Be sure to get good photos of all your work, the power points can come anytime...
PS---Projected shows are the way to go to get that impact....projectors are not nearly as much as they used to be....and it is just as easy as plugging in the projector and a "boom box" to your lap top.
Mike
