thanks for your comments.

We shouldn’t try and please everyone should we?

Part of the struggle for us all is how to educate clients that ‘less is more’. Its a battle that mostly we lose because people tend to have such strong ideas about what they want.

Maybe this is too long? I don’t care, you opened a window on a world I love and for that I am grateful to you.

Benjamin

I agree with most of what is being said above. But it’s also important to understand that a story like this one is a commissioned piece of work.

Is the piece too long? YES… it is way too long. But then again this story was never intended for a general audience. The story (this is written on our blog the day we launched the site) was produced for an NGO for fundraising purposes and for information within the organization. We were asked to include certain elements in the story and to show how Christianity has a huge influence on their daily work. Personally I myself would never have enough patience to watch a piece like this. There are loads of stories online – also stories produced by Mediastorm – that I have never had enough patience to watch. At the end of the day
we were hired to do a specific story and we did it according to the NGO’s wishes and demand. The NGO is very happy with the piece. So we’re happy too.

This was definitely our last piece in Flash produced entirely by ourselves. From now on we will only do bigger Flashbades projects with professional programmers.

We in BFC are currently working on a new big ( and independent!) story and we will be working on it on/off during 2010.

Thanks for watching and posting good and relevant comments.

Kind regards

Poul Madsen / BFC

some good points raised there.

Ref: Length – I personally think 11 minutes is far too long, I tend to lose interest around the 3 minute mark, even some of the best pieces i’ve been known to so easily click the ‘back’ button.
I suppose, it’s a thin line between telling the story and waffling!

Also, a great point ref matching the audio to the pics – this too can be overdone (?)

Finally, just as I was about to start taking flash and AS3 serious HTML5 and it’s client side buddies begin to show themselves (not forgetting we are still years off a final implementation of HTML5)…

…anyway, these are the technicalities – I better go and find out what streetlight is all about

Regards,

Matt Kirwan
http://www.mediagatherers.com/

To be honest I was pretty disappointed with the Wasteland Video by BFC (it didn’t really look to me like there was much depth to the relationship between the people in the video and the producers) but I think this is a stunning piece of work that I’d really like to pay tribute to.

I lived in Ethiopia. It is country close to my heart. You guys captured it beautifully and with such respect.

THANK YOU

Personally I think HTML5′s approach will change how video/audio is shown on the web. It doesn’t take a nerd to work out this snippet of code is much easier than trying to use flash:

var video = document.getElementById(“video”);

Play
Pause

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What’s pretty cool is that if you do decide to create multimedia this way, it works on all modern devices and not just the ones capable of playing flash.

Personally I think HTML5′s approach will change how video/audio is shown on the web. It doesn’t take a nerd to work out this snippet of code is much easier than trying to use flash:

<< Rewind


What’s pretty cool is that if you do decide to create multimedia this way, it works on all modern devices and not just the ones capable of playing flash.