After this, you can edit the slideshow in a photo storyboard mode or select the timeline view / mode which gives you more precise editing controls (more like you'd expect to see when editing video). If you choose to start a new project you'll be asked to name the project and select the screen format you want it to appear in. There's also a slideshow wizard which talks you through the steps of making a slideshow should you want some guidance. Be warned, the music can be a little loud, though.
You can also drag a whole folder and the software will add the images for you. You simply pick a template, say how long you want the slideshow to last and then drag your own footage into the place holds provided. They're great if you want to save time and can be used for both stills and video.
'New slideshow as movie template' opens up various templates already designed with shot lengths, music etc. The 'Load' and 'Create' options are rather self-explanatory but you are given a couple of other options when you create a new project, which we'll talk about shortly. There's also an 'ask a question' pop-up that's accessible via the ?i icon found in the top menu bar.
The introduction videos are actually really useful to watch if you've not used the software before, plus there are user guides available via the 'Help' menu and text helps pop up when you hover over an icon. When you first open Magix Photostory 2016 you're greeted with a 'welcome' screen that gives you four options: Create new project, Load project, New slideshow as movie template and Watch introduction video.
In November the Artists in Residence program at the Ace Hotel in New York was curated by Residency Unlimited (RU). By then, my project had a working title: “Code 66”.
I assimilated professional medical jargon and expressions unfamiliar to me and incorporated these in the narrative.Ĭoncurrently, I filmed and photographed the building’s interior, choosing the extensive corridor netwerk in the basement and empty sections of the mental patients’s living quarters. In search for a vocabulary for the narrative, I sat in on evaluation meetings between staff members. The KCH’s mandatory course provided me with a clear understanding of the hospital’s modus operandi and showed me the staff’s dedication and commitment. The level of specialised support by KCH’s staff members have been centrifugal in the project’s progression. The environment is synonymous for a form of cross-pollination, a kind of synergy between all these elements, which resides in the soul of the inner structure of the artist-in-residence project and in the teamwork of the medical staff. I used the KCH’s mental illness environment as the catalyst for the projects’s development. Furthermore, I developed a radioplay- and a filmscript, that in its further processing, such as working with professional actors, will be integrated in an interdisciplinary presentation. Working process at the KCH’s artist in residency.Īt the Behavioral Health Center, I produced notebooks with ideas and moodboards shaped as a film/live performance plan in progress.