{"id":60059,"date":"2012-11-01T16:30:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T20:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=60059"},"modified":"2016-02-09T13:58:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T18:58:29","slug":"video-time-lapse-of-merrills-transformation-from-gym-to-inaugural-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/11\/01\/video-time-lapse-of-merrills-transformation-from-gym-to-inaugural-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: time-lapse of Merrill&#8217;s transformation from gym to inaugural stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch as the Margaret Hopkins Merrill Gymnasium undergoes a transformation from sports venue to theatrical stage for the inauguration of Clayton Spencer.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Inauguration Transformers: A Timelapse\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/52571095?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The inauguration stage was designed by Michael Reidy, senior lecturer in theater and managing director of theater and dance.<\/p>\n<p>He explains that presenting the stage as a triangle of sorts \u2014 &#8220;kicking the stage on an angle,&#8221; he says \u2014 was done to give spectators an unobstructed view of the platform party, podium and musical performers.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by the college&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/digital-media\/\">Digital Media Studios<\/a>,<\/strong> the video uses photographs taken over seven days with an automated Canon Rebel XS. The images were converted to high-definition (1080p) video using Apple Compressor&#8217;s image sequencer, then edited inside Final Cut 7. The tilt-shift effect \u2014 which focuses the viewer&#8217;s attention on the stage through a slight blur of the top and bottom of the video \u2014 was added using Apple Motion 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merrill Gym undergoes a transformation from sports venue to theatrical stage for the inauguration of Clayton Spencer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":60070,"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":[11009],"tags":[10935,4354,5894,5930,8731,10834],"class_list":["post-60059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-college","tag-clayton-spencer","tag-inauguration","tag-merrill-gymnasium","tag-michael-reidy","tag-time-lapse","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60059","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\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60059"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76450,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60059\/revisions\/76450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}