This little 2:20 video experiment was as much an exercise in frustration as anything. The intent was to apply video transitions and overlapping audio tracks in a way that caused the viewer to try to assemble a single story line from the jumble of parts. It was intended to be kind of the video equivalent of the typical Paul Simon or Steely Dan song lyrics, where they juxtapose ambiguous words in a way that subconsciously causes the listener to believe he or she knows what the song is about. When in reality the words may not mean much at all. The problems began when the levels on one or the other of the audio tracks were set too high, causing speaker crackle. I think I resolved that issue, however, each time I went back to re-do the audio, I couldn't stop myself from fiddling with video transitions, or tweaking this or that clip. I finally managed to put so many transitions over other transitions that the video output now includes vertical black bands at most of the transition points. There may be a way to edit them out but, as is probably obvious, I am not adept in the ways of Adobe Premier. It's not my favorite program, either. After fiddling with this thing for hours, I'm tossing it out there as a flawed experiment that still, I think, manages to hold some potential viewer interest. You decide. The footage is confined to 100 yards or so of the Brazos River running behind our house. The musical track was written and produced by the multi-talented Steve Scallion, an artist, cartoonist and musician who churns out his creations from an amazing digital studio deep in the Arkansas backwoods.
