Yesterday I was trying my hand for the first time at making slideshows with music. I created two small ones, which gave me great deal of inspiration to experiment further. So, I took my photos of Manchester (all of them you could already see on Flickr), arranged them, edited and tweaked them, added music (“One of a Kind” from “Easy Jazz, Easy Listening” collection I copied to my hard drive when I was at QT Radio)… and then spent several hours trying to figure out how to change the file extension, so I could upload the video to the web. Finally, all jigsaw pieces came together, and here is my declaration to Manchester. It’s never been intended to be comprehensive, so there are a lot of Manchester sights missing. But we each have our own Manchester, so, while watching this video, you are seeing this city with my eyes.
I’ll continue to experiment with these technologies, but the very fact of me making this slideshow about Manchester as the first public slideshow must be telling. In connection with this, I think it’s not too bad that we, bloggers, don’t blog about Manchester very often. Because when we do, we do so with a difference.
[I’m also using the newly added feature in Blogger that allows you to upload your videos in different formats directly to your blog, without the necessity to host the file elsewhere, so as to obtain a code for embedding. LiveJournal doesn’t offer such option yet, as I had to upload the file to Imeem.com first in order to be able to post it to my Russian blog.]