2017 April Random Slideshow
Channel: Side Quest Publications
Date: 2018-05-17

A VERY long overdue random photo slideshow.... and the last one I had created before my previous computer decided to quit working on me.
Now I've a backlog of photos to sort through and see what to use in other slideshows as I attempt to get caught up on the whole monthly plan.

This time around we have:
Here we have:
a handful of books I acquired from the local public library's used book sale (methinks I ought to start including books I acquire via BookCrossing in my random photos)
Two different versions of a photo I'd taken multiple times in the quest to create suitable cover art for a the short story Cassandra's Truth, inspired by Ryan North's Machine of Death premise and published with permission (Affiliate links: http://smile.amazon.com/dp/B071NWH6T1/?tag=sideque-20 and https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/723795?ref=sidequestpublications )
A screenshot from FourSquare Swarm showcasing an odd quirk in their Leaderboard system
And a rainy day when I was about to head home from work.

In addition to trying out editing using YouTube's captions (instead of captioning directly within WMM as the previous version of this video had done), I am also experimenting with something else....
Namely, I am experimenting with outros for "end card" purposes on the random slideshows.
Easier said than done, for a variety of reasons.

For one thing, as the content of this entire video is silent (not counting the music I added via YouTube's own system), I feel like the outro should be silent as well. But that means my viewers will need to read the outro to get any instructions.
In addition, there is the matter of the outro's length: such an outro would need to be long enough to fit all the relevant text in (please toss a like.... visit my Patreon.... etc) without feeling like I'm rushing it--or rushing my viewers to read that text--but at the same time, the video itself is short enough that YouTube might not allow the maximum 20 seconds for end card use, and that assuming I can use AS MANY end cards as the current outro was designed for.
But that's what experimenting is for, yes? And the intro, admittedly, exists solely to increase the video's length so that it will hopefully not be a problem with the end cards.
Not to mention the length of the individual cards themselves (methinks I'll want to reposition that "until next time" on future slideshows just so none of the end card elements cover it up).
Do let me know what you think of the results!

Tools used:
Fujifilm FinePix 70: Affiliate link http://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00HGE7MPO/?tag=sideque-20
Samsung Galaxy S7 phone
Windows Movie Maker
FourSquare Swarm: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.foursquare.robin

Music is provided via YouTube's free options.

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