French Fun

[LumenLux]

I am quoting this post from Gerard because I think it is deserving opic on it's own. I dl'd many of these shows and found them to be entertaining and very interesting to see the many different paths of creativity.

Also, boxig's utility MultiShowPlayer was the perfect way to line up a dozen or more of these short presentations and see them one after the other.

And I do have a question for Gerard or other of our members in France - is the mixture of english and french as common in your day-to-day lives as it is in these presentations? Or is it more so in an "art" context such as AV?

Now, just to show that a PTE show can be produced in many different ways, we (on a French forum devoted to AV) have launched a little game this summer... The principle was very simple: 22 images were put at the disposal of the forum members; with at least 14 of these 22 pictures they had to produce a full show with sound track, not exceeding 7 MB.

The results are totally stunning and prove that even with such a set of 'strange' pictures people can produce such different shows, full of creativity. If you wish, you can download the shows and watch them, it's free ! Most of them have a text (spoken or written) in French (although there are some without text and 4 UK shows made by members of this Forum); even if you don't understand the text, you'll at least see what has been done with these quite 'difficult' pictures.

If you register on the forum, you can cast your votes for the shows presented. The software used for the forum being the same as this one (Invision Board), you shouldn't have much difficulties to find your way...

The link to this 'fun game'. There, you open every thread starting with the words 'Le montage de xxxx', and on the first post you click on the underlined words; this opens the download window. If I may, I just recommend that you do not open the threads 'Le montage de Ehrard' and 'Le montage de PBoucher' as these two shows have not been produced with PTE and may prove difficult to run. You could start by viewing the following sequences as they have been produced py UK authors : Galloise, Avpeter, Ronwill, Bucky.

Enjoy the shows !

If you want to see the original 22 pictures you can go here... and try to produce your own show with at least 14 of them... why not ?

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Gérard

http://gdesroches.com

[Gérard de Lux]

And I do have a question for Gerard or other of our members in France - is the mixture of english and french as common in your day-to-day lives as it is in these presentations? Or is it more so in an "art" context such as AV?

On our DiaporamaForum (the word 'diaporama' is very convenient in French as it means AV-presentations or shows or sequences) and particularly for our Summer "Fun game", everybody uses French; but as Maureen has made some publicity for this little game, some English-speaking authors (4, of which 3 are members of this forum) have taken part in this game and have naturally used their language.

By the way, I put here the direct link to this fun game as it has disappeared through the quotation process.

Many members of our DiaporamaForum being used to international competitions, they don't mind watching presentations (or sequences) with English texts (written or spoken) even if they of course have more or less difficulties to understand everything. Some of them have even made the (big) effort to have their shows either translated into English, or with English subtitles.

But for many reasons (music copyright, for example), most of these shows are not yet available for download on the internet but can be seen during festivals and other public showings (many are regularly held in France); some are announced (and downloadable) in a section of our Forum, whose access is restricted to registered members (again because of this copyright issue).

I hope that I have answered your question (and sorry for my English... remember I'm French, living in Luxembourg).

Gérard