Periodically during the year, members are invited to present an audio visual show on a topic of their choice during a regular club meeting.
The audio visual (AV) show may be a simple collection illustrating recent images or investigation of a photographic technique or a photo essay.
A photo essay is a set or series of photographs that are intended to tell a story or evoke a series of emotions in the viewer. Photo essays often address a certain issue or attempt to capture the character of a place or event. In general, photo essays can range from purely photographic works to photographs with captions or small notes to full text essays with a few or many accompanying photographs.
When presented at Highland Glen, a digital audio visual show is typically a sequential presentation of still images whose display is limited to approximately 5 minutes. With prints, an essay may be presented sequentially, or the prints may be viewed all at once by setting up an exhibition of the prints in advance.
Digital audio visual shows are often set to music, though this is not a requirement. Members have done some excellent presentations with off the cuff narration with pre-timed AV shows (slide duration and transitions are programmed). Narration does not work as well with slide shows, e.g. PowerPoint, as it is much more difficult to stay on topic and on time. Various software packages support slide shows set to music, e.g. Lightroom, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, PTE AV Studio, and Adobe Premier Pro.
Suggestions for Show Structure:
- start with a black slide of up to 2 seconds
- title slide if there is a theme or topic
- images in the slide show
- 3 to 5 seconds per slide = 20 to 12 images per minute
- transitions, especially more complex transitions, take time
- e.g. if a transition takes 3 seconds and you display the image for 3 to 5 seconds, you will be able to show 10 to 7 images per minute
- credit slide: photographer’s name and music credit
- end with a black slide of up to 2 seconds