"Video"

By Sean Ryan

Updated: 13/10/2006

Video was "inspired" (several years ago) by a  feeling of information overload and the methods of present day News casting.

I took clips from every visual medium available (pictures, newspapers, video, DVD, Television, Internet etc) and edited them into small combined clips with static intros etc. This was to give the impression of hundreds of television sets. I captured images/clips at different times over the space of a few years (to get some variation) and to allow the piece to focus on more than one moment in time.

The Ticker Tape idea as given to me while watching the infamous "Nanny" trial in the United States. I saw part of this while visiting a Chinese takeaway and was effected by the permanent news cast of this event. Other news as shown in a Ticker tape scrolling along the bottom of the screen. It made it look like other news as less important , even though some of the events had been people dieing in accidents etc.

I spilt both Sets into green "good" things and red "bad things" in the world. The text is mostly rambled and jumbled , but some combined words are together for a reason (to make various statements).

The Choice of song had not changed by Day 1 of this creation. George Michael "Praying for Time". It suited the subject matter and I wanted to include a couple of clips that matched the lyrics (example "gods children crept out the back door - with the images of the wrong African boy with the briefcase , year of the Guilty man etc - you can spot the others for your self).

Technical Stuff now. All video was captured on an old Diamond Crunch it 2000 PCI capture card and edited in Media Studio 2.5 Light (free with the card). Macromedia Flash 5 was used to create the "is religion the route of all Evil" Statement (raw file here): and yes, it is a play on words - rather than using root of.

Imaging Tools used were Paint Shop Pro 7, Simple 3D 3, and Adobe PhotoShop 6. The final video was then edited with added music track in Adobe Premiere 6.

All elements were then brought together using Microsoft Front page 2000 and a small Piece of Java coding.

If you like (and can edit HTML) you can change all the words and add you own.