How to use the Sony Vegas slideshow option as a creative tool part 3

This article explains how to use the Sony Vegas slideshow option as a creative tool in film making, basically using it to make the short film more interesting and varied but also using to emphasise certain scenes in the film.

It’s a continuation of my previous articles ‘How to use the Sony Vegas slideshow option as a creative tool part 1‘ and ‘How to use the Sony Vegas slideshow option as a creative tool part 2.’

For example, I have used it in my short film ‘Not Fade Away’ to emphasise continuity.
I wanted to emphasise the continuity of the ‘Stars and Stripes’, the American national flag.
To do this, I used a photograph of American soldiers raising the Stars and Stripes at Iwo Jima during World War 2, and a photograph (actually a snapshot from the short film) of a modern Stars and Stripes.
I inserted these photographs into the slideshow option and used the rotate speed option to display them in turn, at quite a high speed.
The idea is, by (almost) blurring the photographs into one photograph, they (almost) become one. It hopefully suggests that the past is linked to the present, which hopefully creates a sense of continuity.
This idea might not be to everyone’s taste, of course, but at least it proves that it’s worth experimenting with the Sony Vegas slideshow option.

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Keep in mind that any video editing software with a slideshow option can be used for this purpose – it doesn’t have to be Sony Vegas. The only reason I mention Vegas is, I have practical experience of using it.