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.
Really, it’s hard to get past how terribly cute you are in that video, but through a herculean effort of will, I must say that the video concept and filming is also terribly, terribly cute. =)
As you were suggesting, though, the editing is a bit choppy in places (esp. when you alternate between cameras several times within short succession). Perhaps it’d work better if you were capturing the same shot, just from several angles, rather than changing perspective/shots? In otherwords, keep the same object (you or you and the box) focal in both. In the side shot, the hallway and coats appear to be more salient. It’s all fabulously creative, regardless. =)
Ridiciously cute. I mean, like, what the hell. I was expecting aaron to overexagerrate but no. he’s telling the truth. i couldn’t handle the cuteness either… in fact i found the cuts too short, but if you had longer cuts it would have been too long, and i was getting bored by about 3/4 way in, except the cuteness was keeping me going…
I like the black’n'white candystripe look on you.
thanks dearie! ya,i should have moved the camera so i’m centered, but i didn’t watch the clips, so i didn’t know. i ended up using it though because you can see me putting stuff in the box.