I was in the local park this sunday. The Royal Opera was giving a taste from the upcoming season. Thousands of people sat down and heard classical music from some of the best in Copenhagen.
I used my Edirol stereo recorder to record audio for a soundslide show. In my effort to get better at this, I would like to hear your critique and comments. Turn on our sound, take a look and let me know what you think.
Watch my soundslideshow from the event here: (tempoarily out of order…sorry!)
It’s been a while since the last post. But now I’m back with some more Soundslide-action. I’m pretty exited about this program!
Making a real nice show is harder than I thought.You can do a show very fast, but it pays of to be serious about it. It requires some planning and preparation. This time I went to a sports arrangement in the nearby park. ‘Alt for Damerne’ is a danish magazine for women. Every year they arrange a running event for women only. 5 or 10 kilometers. The whole thing is more networking, having fun and to socialize than it is a competition. I have a friend on flickr.com, Marianne, and she was to run the 5 km. I would like to interview her with my audio device and she agreed. An interview in the slide show is great because it adds personality. She was great and I really appreciate her help.
Until now I have some few guidelines for making a great slide show:
1- Record plenty of sound from the different scenarios on the location. For this event it would be the audience, the speaker, audio from the runners: feet against the pavement, the starting gun shot etc. I made the mistake that I did’nt get any audio from the warm-up sessions. Too bad, because I had plenty of funny photos from the warm-up.
2- The audio part has to be relevant. Not just some background noise.
3 – An interview with a participant is very effective and add some human touch and personality. Avoid to much background noise here. The interview can be layered on top of some other track.
See the show here and remember sound 
(tempoarily out of order…sorry!)
(tempoarily out of order…sorry!)
After reading the article about Soundslides on Rob Galbraiths site (www.robgalbraith.com) I’ve bought an audio recorder and downloaded the Soundslide software (www.soundslides.com). Why? It’s fun! The Soundslide software is easy to work with. But you might want to get a second piece of software – namely a program to edit your audio track. I use the free software Wavepad (www.nch.com.au/wavepad)
Instead of working in Macromedia Flash (now Adobe) Soundslide does all that for you. It is not as advanced, but perfect for a photojournalist who need to do a presentation within half an hour.
Take a look at the slideshow above (remember sound). We had a Bachata national championship on April 13th. and I was there with my camera and a Roland Edirol sound recorder. It is only my third one, so tell me what you think. Is it to long? How is the sound?
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