Video – The Girl Walking in the Blue Summer Dress
One thing I am enjoying about this blog is being able to experiment more with different art forms. I have for a while wanted to do more with video then just capture interesting family moments.
The old pc with has dual large monitors would choke up with the playing of any ordinary video and HD almost seems to freeze it up permanently. It was so frustrating simply trying to watch a video I captured, let alone do anything intelligent with it.
I have now upgraded to windows 7 (64-bit) 12GB of Ram, Nvidia 2GB video card and 7 processors. There is no comparison between the 2 workstations, this one just hums along.
Now is the painful part of trying to migrate all the programs over and for a few like Photoshop an upgrade will be required.
Last summer while sitting in the backyard I noticed how the strong winds would first rattle the leaves in the trees near me and then migrate down across the fields and into the trees at the far end. I though it might be interesting to capture a few videos and see if any of the sessions dramatically showed the gusts move through the landscape. The undersides of leaves turn whitish when blown in the wind.
I set the video camera on a tripod so it could capture above the hedge and let it film every time I though that a boisterous gust would come into play.
It wasn’t until later while reviewing the footage that I noticed in one of the scenes a singular girl, in a bright blue summer dress, waltz down long the path and then turn and walk across the meadows.
This scene seemed to bring a certain feeling of nostalgia and wonderment that I decided to make a video clip. Unfortunately at the time an airplane could be heard overhead and I began the search for a suitable song.
The one I selected is ‘Maid with the Flaxen Hai’r by Richard Stolzman, Slovak Symphony Orchestra, It came with the pc and turned out to work the best, Go figure. There is a part where there is a bit of a crescendo in and this corresponds with a bright patch of sun moving across the scene.
Click on link below for HD version
Girl in Blue Dress Walking in Summer Fields from Niels Henriksen on Vimeo.
I hope you don’t find it too ordinary or boring (non-action) and are able to enjoy the great summer day.
Niels Henriksen