Saturday, October 9, 2010

A Hero's Journey becomes Stop-Animaton


The King and the Indian is an example of how a magic story can become real and sharable.

This client wore the hat of filmmaker; he made the characters and the props, selected the sound effects, and added the narrative with only a little bit of 3rd hand assistance! Anyone can do it with a camera, picnik, and iMovie. 

1. Have a story? Create the characters and the setting! Toys, dolls, clay figures, curtains, drawings and anything you or you client can think of will work!


2. Act the story out and capture the frames. The more frames you have, the smoother the transitions will appear. AKA - take lots of pictures!


3. Edit images using Picnik if desired. The dragon's fire breath was a digital sticker!



3. Place your images into iMovie in the order of the story


4. Edit the film. Add sounds, visual effects, determine how long each frame stays on screen, and record voices.  New to iMovie?  Let Apple help:

5. Happily Ever After. Make a disc for the client to take home using iDVD.

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