What to do with leftover candy canes.
My latest movie:
I really enjoy making these short movies. It's so much fun to film and edit and I'm learning a lot.
This movie was much faster to film but took a few hours to edit. I used my digital camera and my isight to shoot it from 2 different angles (multiple cameras are awesome), but the result was that I had a ton of footage to sift through. It was difficult to make the editing look smooth since I made the angle shift every few seconds. The titles make that smoothness unnecessary for the most part, but here is the non-title clip that better illustrates my attempt at smoothness. I'm a little annoyed that in one of my shots the framing doesn't give me enough space above my head, but it worked out fine.
Big things I learned in the past few days:
- putting a light behind the camera is a cheap and easy way to light up your whole scene.
- review all shots before cleaning up, because you might want to film something again.
-the isight is a little shitty because:
- resolution and framerate are low(ish)
- not enough feedback on whether or not you're recording. one of my movies was never made because I ended up recording the parts I didn't want and not recording the parts that I wanted.
- the isight is great because:
- you can see yourself on the screen which helps a lot with framing
- clips are instantly imported into imovie
I'm also giggly-excited about going to macworld, and meeting ijustine(!!!!!) I am so completely enamored with her.
I really enjoy making these short movies. It's so much fun to film and edit and I'm learning a lot.
This movie was much faster to film but took a few hours to edit. I used my digital camera and my isight to shoot it from 2 different angles (multiple cameras are awesome), but the result was that I had a ton of footage to sift through. It was difficult to make the editing look smooth since I made the angle shift every few seconds. The titles make that smoothness unnecessary for the most part, but here is the non-title clip that better illustrates my attempt at smoothness. I'm a little annoyed that in one of my shots the framing doesn't give me enough space above my head, but it worked out fine.
Big things I learned in the past few days:
- putting a light behind the camera is a cheap and easy way to light up your whole scene.
- review all shots before cleaning up, because you might want to film something again.
-the isight is a little shitty because:
- resolution and framerate are low(ish)
- not enough feedback on whether or not you're recording. one of my movies was never made because I ended up recording the parts I didn't want and not recording the parts that I wanted.
- the isight is great because:
- you can see yourself on the screen which helps a lot with framing
- clips are instantly imported into imovie
I'm also giggly-excited about going to macworld, and meeting ijustine(!!!!!) I am so completely enamored with her.