Getting my fingers into all the different aspects of this at once. Premiere Pro for Dummies is a lot less daunting and if I’d’ve gotten this first for Flash 8, I think I would’ve learned it quickly. Premiere is similar to the other programs as far as technical how-to, but until you know one, they’re all a foreign language.
Have the stories laid out in TurboCAD. Now the problem is to be able to connect the textboxes and keep them connected while moving them around. Maybe this is just the start of a storyboard. On the good side, what I’m seeing is everything at once–the whole picture–by scrolling the screen. I should also be able to embed images on the layout once I have them. What I may do here is grab some off the web as "spaceholders" and to inspire and keep the ideas coming. I did this with the laying-out of the poem Recycling, plugging in photos of Earth, Mars, Jesus, Edgar, etc., until I replaced them with photos or drawings of my own work. Needless to say: no, I couldn’t get a clear photo of Jesus so I had to make do with a drawing.
Video comes into play here as well, so I’m learning to run the camcorder. Actually, Premiere Pro for Dummies does give me some assistance here as well since it’s premise is to teach a total project based on the most used areas of Premiere, and this is the program I’ll use for these stories.
Last but not least, I’m already seeing that the stories themselves must be rewritten to accomodate the brotherhood of hyperfiction. They need to flow into each other, out, away, elsewhere, and back in again.
I’m really looking forward to working on this project.
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