WINSEN
Again I did very little as I sat in my private large screen viewing room created by the Vision Pro goggles. I did go down to see the Aller River, that recently flooded, but has now subsided. I made a panorama in each direction, facing down the river and facing up the river. Panoramas are one of the things that the Vision Pro presents very well.
On this page or a flat screen these panoramas looked curved and a little warped. But on the Vision Pro they rise from floor to ceiling and curve out of line of sight around me so that I am completely immersed in the photograph. The Vision Pro can do this since in actuality the screen is two inches from my eyes within the googles but seems to be floating in space in front of me, don’t ask me how.
I also decided to make a video record of the Main Street of Winsen as a memory. But I learned by swinging back and forth at the Saturday market in Celle that a video swinging back and forth between booths causes dizziness. So this time I slowly videoed up one side of the street on my way to Aldi and then slowly videoed down the other side of the street on the way back.
Slowly I am discovering that filming video is much more difficult than it seems. As I write this I am attending a Mozart and Vivaldi concert in the Louvre on the huge screen in front of me in which the video pans very slowly, if at all, and cuts from one angle to another, or cuts from closeups of musicians to wide angle shots of the whole orchestra, staying with each one for a very short time. I have become so used to this flitting around technique that I never notice it and wouldn’t now if I wasn’t trying to film a video myself. But now I do notice this constant shift of perspective. But Apple gives me no way to cut and paste video, which is probably just as well since it must take a huge amount of time and effort to do, which must be part of the reason there are so many credits listed on the screen at the end of a concert. Film making is an enormous group effort. When I have tea with Maria Schrader my niece, the director of the movie She Said and the Netflix series Unorthodox, on Sunday I’ll mention that I suddenly realize how difficult making a feature film must be. All I’ve ever seen is the finished result as if the actors or orchestra were suspended in space doing their thing with no one else around. Now I sense the army on the other side of the camera and how slow and painstaking the process of making a movie must be.
So when you see my amateur and jerky videos, which I am just learning, at 86, to make, have a little sympathy for me. Here are two more videos to go with the panoramas. You have to really want to get a feel for the town of Winsen in order to sit through them. You might just as well skip them and save the time for something else.
ORDINARY VIDEO OF WINSEN MAIN STREET
https://share.icloud.com/photos/0d74b7mqwNqOlF47PP9-x6rbQ
SPATIAL VIDEO OF THE OTHER SIDE OF WINSEN MAIN STREET
https://share.icloud.com/photos/014z84AKkMIP-sFTakLObvxGg
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