Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Thing 21 Channeling Stephen Spielberg


Make your own slide show at Animoto.


            If I can boldly say this … I just might be the next Stephen Spielberg … No, not really, but in my non-tech would, that is pretty darn amazing for me.  I really enjoyed using the Animoto website to produce my very own video.  Whenever I am at a wedding, I always wonder how the videographer makes the stereotypical wedding video montage that is projected behind the couple and plays on the never-ending death loop.  It always includes the obligatory naked baby photo, the head stuck in the toilet photo (maybe that was just mine), the terrible 80’s hair/clothing photo, and the embarrassing high school prom date photo.  Oh, those were the days.  The video I made, is nowhere near that, but I did have a fun time creating it none-the-less.  Since I do not have any digital pictures on my computer, I used the ones offered on the Animoto website.  There are quite a few photographs from which to choose, so that was nice.  After scrolling through the bank of photograph categories, I selected a variety of flower pictures from the nature section.  The website has a wide variety of stock music to use as well.  Since nature can have a calming effect, I chose a classical piece to accompany it.   The directions to gather the pictures and music are very simple so it was easy to compile and save it.  Embedding the video is a little tricky though.  I had to click around a bit to find where to get that information.  I followed the directions, but I do not think I did it properly.  The video is located at the main section of my blog.  I will keep working on it to see if I can embed it into this particular blog.

            Anyway, click on it, and enjoy my Stephen Spielberg-ish amazing video creation!

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