You’ve heard of diptychs and triptychs?
A diptych is a set of two photographs, side by side. The reasoning is that the two photographs together mean more artistically than the two photographs individually – a mini-story in two frames, or an association. The same reasoning applies for triptychs – a series of three photographs.
A VIDtych is a series of short video clips, designed to tell a story greater than the individual clips themselves could.
Here’s one I put together at my daughter’s swim practice. Hit me in the comments, let me know what you think.
Hopeland Studios – VIDtych – Swimming from Hopeland Studios on Vimeo.
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Hey, Bill! Interesting video– I watched cuz your word “VIDtych” caught my eye. Not sure it fits your video as it is right now, though. Diptychs and triptychs are seen simultaneously, not sequentially. It’s up to the viewer to decide what part to look at and when. However, there’s a technique I’ve seen in movies and TV shows that would fit your word. It involves having different “windows” floating on the background “screen” and the windows have different videos running in them. Simultaneous, and at any given moment the viewer choses what to look at. Since video is by nature sequential, you’d still make choices of what’s shown at the same time, frames can contrast each other, or support each other by showing related images. I’d be interested to see what you do with that technique.