My Friends iPhone Stop Motion - Third Video

Most of the explanation is at the beginning of the video. I was thinking of video ideas and scrolling through my iPhone 5 when I saw all these pictures in my phone. See, the iPhone takes pictures so quickly that when you put them together, they can make a little movie.Apple AT&T 16GB White iPhone 5 Wireless Cellular Phone - 69301 (Google Affiliate Ad)

So I imported all the images into Final Cut Pro, dropped them into the timeline, and shortened all the images to 3 frames long. Then I added all the text and found the song. It actually took a couple tries to find a song that I felt fit pretty well. And then I uploaded it.

For me, it was really cool to see all the pictures played through that quickly, since I'd only ever seen them on my phone. It just kind of worked out that my friend took the pictures quickly enough to capture the illusion of movement. I mean, in a way that's all movies are: the illusion of movement by playing back a series of images at the right speed.

Procrastination - Second Video for Class

This one took a while to do.

After making my Friends dancing video, I knew I wanted to do something completely different. One of my housemates, Kyle, and I had been talking about making videos together for months but had never found the time. This assignment gave us the opportunity to actually make something.

After coming up with the basic idea, I went to the ISS to get the equipment. In order to use the Canon 7D I had to go through the training and get authorized, which was actually very helpful. I borrowed a ton of equipment, most of which we used.

The audio was recorded onto a Zoom H4n recorder using a Sennheiser shotgun mic, and when I imported all the files I synced them up. All the editing was done in Final Cut Pro 7; exporting and uploading to YouTube took a really long time because of the size of the file.

This was a really fun video to make but it took much longer than we anticipated. I wasn't planning on splitting the story into two videos but there just wasn't time to film the second (much more action packed) part, which we'll get to hopefully next weekend.

So watch out for that!

Friends Dancing! First Video for Class

After watching some of the other videos from class, the idea of doing some kind of supercut appealed more and more to me. At first I thought I might take a bunch of clips of people covering "Titanium" by David Guetta and put them together. I used a Firefox add-on to download the clips and starting editing, but right away I ran into problems.

Some of the covers were played in different keys, and at different tempos, and I had a really tough time putting them together in a way that I liked. On top of that, I was using Final Cut 7 to edit it together and was running into all kinds of rendering troubles.

So I abandoned that idea and came up with this instead. I found the Friends clips on YouTube, downloaded them, picked out the most random song, and spent a decent amount of time making sure all the movement matched up to the beat of the song.

I noticed there are a couple other videos similar to this on YouTube, but I'm proud of how this one turned out; I think it's a worthy addition. Plus, who doesn't love Friends and Duck Sauce?

I've already got an idea for my next video that will be very different from this one, in just about every way. And I'm still looking around for ideas for my third video.