I feel spoiled by all this eye candy. Bright colors and curly ruffles. A stream of clothing carts that keeps coming and coming. I am pretending to be watching the stage but the real show is at the side. Groups of dancers are nervous about being next on stage so they primp, fan and twirl.
I go through three cards worth of images and see that people come in waves. People carrying folding chairs, mixed groups of the costumed with the non-costumed, kids with giant puffy carnival prizes. There is a Dalmatian mix that walks really close to the camera. He goes slowly enough that I could put the pieces together into one long dog.
A big challenge has been the sheer number of images. Why would anyone to want to look through them all? I fixate on the idea of a puzzle, something the viewer would be compelled to solve. Luckily Rob pulls me out of my “gamification” detour by talking about waves and phrasing and how a visual rhythm would carry the viewer forward. I know that he doesn’t literally mean “add a soundtrack” but it sounds like a good place to start.
After three weeks of tediously adding in detail and variation, I think I am close. But Jon says it is now stilted and jumpy. To his fresh eye it is confusing and not obvious why some parts were fast and others slow. I start over and concentrate on making clumps with roughly regular spacing. This works much better.
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