AV News 180 - May 2010
The courthouse and
gaol images were taken
in Stafford, as was the
solicitor's office, the
sign added later in
Photoshop. We felt we
needed a large stately
building
for
the
government committee
to meet, to show their
power and authority, a
day out with my wife to
Attingham Park solved
that problem.
When we started to
construct the sequence
in PicturesToExe it
became obvious that
we could not depict the
early 20th century from
original photos. Phil
gathered a number of
archive pictures, from
various sources, which
helped a lot. We visited
our local archive library
where we were shown,
and kindly allowed to
photograph, press pictures of both the trial and the family.
Phil and I have never been happy with our sequences when they
constantly change from b/w to colour and this one was no different. I
suggested that the b/w be hand tinted which was a tough ask for us poor
Photoshop workers, however Phil came up with some very good results. The
images still seemed to upset the flow so I had a great idea of taking some of
the colour out of the colour images to make them similar to the tinted b/w.
This was my job, it took me days to do them all but it seemed to work.
However when it was shown alongside sequences where the images were
normal it looked terrible and so the idea was rejected and we stayed with
tinted and colour.
We visited a relative of Phil's and she recorded our narration, Phil then
edited it using Cool Edit. I meanwhile had been listening to lots of music, we
had already agreed that violin music would be the order of the day.
The next time we met I took 3 Cd's with me, which we listened to and felt
that one of them would be good for the ending. This was Bruch's violin
concerto. We spent the day working on the soundtrack.
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