Verna

my son, after watching several of those frame by frame videos on you
tube wants to make one. anyone know how you do it. i thought you
could use a digital camara and make lots and lots of sequencial
pictures but what software puts them together? any ideas?
thanks

Brad Holcomb

>my son, after watching several of those frame by frame videos on you
>tube wants to make one. anyone know how you do it.


I'm not an animator or filmmaker and don't really know how they do it, but
I've googled this a bit since it looks fun.

As far as I know, it's called "stop motion animation". Google that to get
you started.


--
Brad in Boulder, CO
http://holcombs.org

Shannon Loucks

I-Movie could work well for this type of project. I know of others who
have used. I believe it only runs on a MAC however.

Kindly,
Shannon

lyndaquincunx

There's software that comes as part of Windows that you can use for
stop motion films - Windows movie maker.
Lynda

--- In [email protected], "Verna" <lalow@...> wrote:
>
> my son, after watching several of those frame by frame videos on you
> tube wants to make one. anyone know how you do it. i thought you
> could use a digital camara and make lots and lots of sequencial
> pictures but what software puts them together? any ideas?
> thanks
>

Brad Holcomb

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/08/20/no.classes.just.movies.ap/ind
ex.html

or
http://preview.tinyurl.com/59lm9k



I found it interesting (weird) that the dad mentioned several times that he
doesn't recommend this for any other families. Was it possibly just a need
for some kind of CYA on his part? Or because he wasn't truly sold on the
idea? And if he's saying that, it probably means the rest of their home
life didn't look very unschool-ish. The book sounds fun though...I like
movies and discussions of movies.


--
Brad in Boulder, CO
http://holcombs.org

kstjonn

>
> I found it interesting (weird) that the dad mentioned several times
that he
> doesn't recommend this for any other families. Was it possibly
just a need
> for some kind of CYA on his part? Or because he wasn't truly sold
on the
> idea? And if he's saying that, it probably means the rest of their
home
> life didn't look very unschool-ish. The book sounds fun though...I
like
> movies and discussions of movies.
>
>


Or maybe he feels with his background in film, he is "qualified"
whereas someone else might not be? Shrug. I dunno. But it sounds
kind of like our life. LOL I am an armchair film critic and I talk
about movies all the time, how they're made and social context and
script flaws, etc. DD and I get into some pretty interesting
conversations, thanks to movies. :)

In fact, I think her learning to read was greatly helped along by
subtitles on DVDs!

Kara

Sandra Dodd

-=-I found it interesting (weird) that the dad mentioned several
times that he
doesn't recommend this for any other families. Was it possibly just a
need
for some kind of CYA on his part? Or because he wasn't truly sold on the
idea? -=-

I imagine he thinks he's uniquely qualified, as a film critic and
someone who has had a TV show, to discuss such things "at a level" to
make it worthy.



-=-The Film Club lasted a bit more than three years, until Jesse was
19-=-

-=-And Jesse and Gilmour's current wife strike up their own chat club
over cigarettes on the porch.-=-


So his relationship with his dad is called "the film club," and his
relationship with his step mother is "chat club" (I know the reporter
did that, but still...)


-=-"If he hadn't done something like that, he wouldn't have been my
dad.-=- I think it was brave and cool for them to do that, but on
the other end he did GED and college (some college).

His dad's a professor now. And that (professorship) is the golden
ticket of unschooling. If either parent is a professor, everyone
says 'Oh, well, okay then."

It's still a pretty good story.

There's a book called Cinema Nirvana that discusses movies in light
of Buddhist precepts. It's by Dean Sluyter, who wrote one of my
favorite books ever, which has a super long name: Why the Chicken
Crossed the Road and other hidden enlightenment teachings from Buddha
to Bebop to Mother Goose


http://deansluyter.com/pages.cfm?id=29
http://deansluyter.com/pages.cfm?id=2

Sandra



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k

And for people who would like to do this on more of a shoestring, I have an
older Mac G4 Quicksilver with iMovie and it works fine. I got the Mac
refurbished online for about $400. There's lots of places selling refurb'd
Macs, some probably better at it than others. I thought I would need
something snazzier for doing graphics but it works well and I absolutely
love it.

~Katherine


On 8/20/08, Shannon Loucks <shannon@...> wrote:
>
> I-Movie could work well for this type of project. I know of others who
> have used. I believe it only runs on a MAC however.
>
> Kindly,
> Shannon
>
>


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Deborah

If you have a Mac, you can use a free program we just discovered
called FramebyFrame, made specifically for making stop-motion movies.
From their website: "FrameByFrame lets you create stop-motion
animation videos using any webcam/video camera connected to your Mac,
including iSight. Just take some pictures and in a matter of seconds
you‘ve got your very own stop-motion QuickTime movie!"

We just downloaded it last week because my 6-year-old son wanted to
make movies like he'd seen on YouTube, and we've made a couple of
LEGO Star Wars movies with it and found it very easy (and fun) to use.

http://web.mac.com/philipp.brendel/Software/FrameByFrame.html

Deborah

qmemom

> -=-The Film Club lasted a bit more than three years, until Jesse was
> 19-=-
>


My husband and I both enjoyed this book. Not an unschooling book directly, it was a far cry
from many books about a father's relationship with a teenage son. He speaks about the
privelage of spending that time with his son and how lucky he felt.

It was frustrating to me that the father always chose the movies, so it was not about
following Jesse's interests. Overall it is a fun, quick read, with a great list of film suggestions
for anyone.

Dana

Sandra Dodd

-=-It was frustrating to me that the father always chose the movies,
so it was not about
following Jesse's interests. -=-



Well now that "Film Club" is over, maybe the dad will be humble
enough to watch some movies his son chooses that he/dad knows nothing
about!



Sandra

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