. The cost of admission was 3 cans of food, which are going to a local food pantry led by Panhandle Love In Action. As the pile of cans grew before the concert, I thought "It would have been cool to have set up a stop motion video of the counter as the cans were collected." Good thought... too late.But, last Thursday morning, I stole my wife's camera, set it up on a tripod, and dumped out a box of cans to play. (Is it ever ok to play with someone else's food?) I've never done a stop motion video before... just thought it would be fun. It was. I learned a few things though:
- Fewer moving parts would have been a good idea!
- More pictures = better.
- Small movements make for less stop, more motion.
- Stop motion takes a lot of time.
There's my can! THAT'S MY CAN!
ReplyDeleteStop motion, while pretty fun, is incredibly time-consuming. I learned this when filming a legomation stop-motion movie of the Old Testament my first year at Summit. Awesome concept. Bad timeline. We ended up with like .1% of the OT actually getting done.
But we killed Goliath with a crossbow. Hey-oh!
So, did you end up using iMovie to put it together?
ReplyDeleteYes, Ted. I dropped the pictures in there (without the Ken Burns) and set the time for each one at a little less than half a second with no transitions. I did check out that Frame By Frame app a little, too and I think I could have exported from there as a video file into iMovie, then added the audio. Not sure if one way would be better or not...
ReplyDeleteThanks for the can Alex!