What have you done with the timelapse footage and flower pictures? Add any text yet? Transitions or music ... What are your questions?
You can thank Cynthia for talking me off a complex video production ledge and instead suggesting that you continue with any imagined video project at full-speed ahead. Maybe a portfolio iMovie slideshow with music where you wrestle with the Ken Burns effect. Then repeat the portfolio slideshow in Keynote and compare the transitions and controls available. If you don’t yet feel inspired, look at the iMovie Cooking Storyboard and try some shots on your own.
Cooking: Use a small tripod to hold your iPhone so you can walk into a scene or talk to the back camera. Try Cinematic mode to allow setting focus in post production. Other video modes might help tell your story - Timelapse and Slo-mo. Look at the storyboard and shoot video clips at the same location but not in sequence: [ Walk into a scene where you open the cupboard and grab your recipe book. Cut. Walk into the same scene and place the book back in the cupboard, close the door and walk out of the scene. Cut. Adjust your tripod to get a close up of placing the book on the shelf. Cut. Same location for tripod, to get a close up of removing the book from the shelf. Cut. Etc, with additional scenes and shots. ] This will not be smooth and easy. Actually, having another person to help shoot the scenes would be very helpful! Two heads can brainstorm ideas for angles and quickly go through the shots. After wrapping your shoot, use AirDrop to share the video clips so each person can edit the project.
Your goal is to create a 1 to 5 minute video - a REHEARSAL video. Not the complete-ready-to-enter-competitions video. To get experience with the entire process from familiar choices to storyboard you can use to shooting and then to editing. Afterwards you’ll have a better idea about shooting and scripting a project. Oh an fun. Did I mention you are having fun?
Where are you on iCloud storage? I’ve heard that several members are at the 2T-$10/month level. Video projects will push us all into more storage and an archive-to-computer workflow.
Pairing up for shooting on 3/23. Editing Q & A on 3/30 via Zoom.
Our last meeting, 4/6, is “planned” for visiting Wilton to see the new baby foal, horses, chickens and environ. The plan is to also include shooting macros of flowers using portable light tents. And we need a sandwich-runner. More on all this later.
PS - Something tells me, shooting a few scenes in my kitchen for interior practice > putting on my coat > grabbing my keys > walking out to my car > getting in the car and starting the engine > driving down the street to 38.65281° N, 121.12368° W seems like more fun. Your destination will vary.
