Jem Raid
DESCRIPTION OF THE WORK
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Title: Back Alley
Length: 5.00 minutes
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Format H.264 MP4 1290 x 1080
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Synopsis;
It is part waking nightmare part hopeful of overcoming its own shortcomings as a place to live and work, but sadly not succeeding. It's a place that most people walk past without a second glance and there it stays melded into the local community, in equal measures a dump for rubbish, a home for those who live at the back or above shops and businesses and a shortcut for those who live adjacent to it. Unkempt for the most part bits added to the rear of the buildings that front the main road with utility uppermost in the minds of both the builders and the commissioners.
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ABOUT JEM RAID
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Fifty years of photography and tired of the single image led me to making digital art montages. This in turn to finding the CSS code to make cross fading before and after images. From there another step to using video creation software to put together many images cross fading into each other. Finally to making the sound tracks myself on a drone synthesizer that I made myself.
Making these videos is the most rewarding thing I have ever done, it brings together the two sides of my life on one side artistic interpretation and on the other the technical know how, I am also my own model and therefore always available. This gives me total control of the processes from inception to presentation.