Photocast - history - present day:
"Diaporama" (in Polish) - a slide show, or slideshow, is a presentation of a series of still images (slides) on a projection screen or electronic display device, typically in a prearranged sequence. The changes may be automatic and at regular intervals or they may be manually controlled by a presenter or the viewer. Slide shows originally consisted of a series of individual photographic slides projected onto a screen with a slide projector, as opposed to the video or computer-based visual equivalent, in which the slides are not individual physical objects.
(Wikipedia - https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaporama)
France is considered the homeland of diaporama, because it was there that this type of shows began to be organized in the 1950s, shortly after diapositive materials and tape recorders became available for sale.
Photocast - diaporama’s renaissance in the information society.
A photocast is a multimedia presentation, several minutes long, of a topical collection of photographs, sometimes complemented with video sequences. Unlike a traditional slideshow consisting of an image and the accompanying music, it contains narrative elements: commentaries, voices of people appearing in the photo, explanatory texts, etc., and the sound does not just form the background but constitutes a whole with the image. Images need not be statically displayed, zoom in/out and sweep effects are often used. The idea of such a show is not new: slideshows from several projectors synchronised with appropriately selected music and text were organised as early as in 1960s. However, it is the technological development of the recent years that has made it possible to create a uniform, easy-to-replay material (one photocast = one digital file).
Uniwersytet Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis
Studia de Cultura III (2012)
Piotr Bieniek
"Fotokast – renesans diaporamy
w społeczeństwie informacyjnym"
link up.krakow
I invite you to watch several photocasts created in 2010, when this form was at its peak of popularity.
