The historical/factual/public side of events is interesting for people like us, who are always starving for information.
But the individual/private view of those same events brings you right back in the heart of the action, like a travel in time. Then, people care. You then write to help prevent events such as these to happen again, and this is priceless.
DoDo, have you thought of take videos of your family recollecting those events ? With a plain video editor, you can then mix with historical or personal photos, and it makes for an extremely powerful medium to bring history back to life.
I have done it with members of my family, and events dating back from say around WWI come back in an extremely powerful way. People are moved almost to tears hearing the sorrow and the pain of a mother losing her son.
I have this Ukrainian friend who recently told me stories of how her parents survived in WWII, in Western Ukraine, I was spellbound. I am planning to take a video, as soon as I manage to convince her.
These stories must be told through a medium which will reach out to today's people.
Oooh, I am not big in making pictures of persons. I know my father is, maybe he would like to do such things. But it is a question whether the intended video stars would feel comfortable with a camera permanently pointing at them.
Wow! If you do so, I hope you'll bring a diary! This would be of special interest to me, the conduct of the later encircled and lost Second Hungarian Army during WWII (which was across Ukraine) being the big black hole of history in Hungarian schools and media. (blackhawk already suggested that it wasn't pretty at all.) *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
But it is a question whether the intended video stars would feel comfortable with a camera permanently pointing at them.
Oh, you'll be surprised how older people very rarely object, they even seem to understand what is at stake. Everyone soon forgets the camera. And it takes zero filmmaking knowhow. Give it a try, just once.
How do I say it; it's not the knowhow but my predilection... stuff like this is the most I could get myself to in picturing people.
Give it a try, just once.
OK, I will suggest my father to do it next time I call him. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
