{"id":154157,"date":"2023-06-02T14:20:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T18:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=154157"},"modified":"2023-11-21T09:55:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T14:55:24","slug":"video-time-for-their-commencement-closeups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2023\/06\/02\/video-time-for-their-commencement-closeups\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Ready for their 2023 Bates Commencement closeups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As bleary-eyed seniors slowly arrived at Alumni Walk on Commencement morning, Bates multimedia producer Theophil Syslo was there, inviting them to pose for slow-motion video portraits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slow no more! They stepped right up, exhibiting unfiltered excitement and pride as they posed, individually and with friends, in front of a backdrop set up on Alumni Walk.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-embed-aspect-16-9\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<lite-youtube videoid=\"7GX94Sc1yWA\" params=\"modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0\" playlabel=\"Commencement Portraits along Alumni Walk | 2023\" title=\"Commencement Portraits along Alumni Walk | 2023\" >\n\t\t\t<\/lite-youtube>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The setting creates &#8220;a frame within a frame,&#8221; Syslo says. &#8220;It&#8217;s kind of like preparing a small stage for a performance and a fun way to engage with students for one last moment before they move on with their journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As bleary-eyed seniors slowly arrived on Commencement morning, we were there, inviting them to pose for slow-motion portraits. Slow no more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":154158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[243,11012,11009],"tags":[12322],"class_list":["post-154157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-events","category-student-life","category-the-college","tag-commencement-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154157"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154261,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154157\/revisions\/154261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}