ProudMommyof2
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- Feb 21, 2007
Just WOW!!!!
I love that you incorporated your teens cell phone use in the video. Why fight it, just embrace it, they are alot of teens out there that can relate to that!
I've loved watching your kids grow, when the commercial comes on at work I always say Hey I know those people!
If you're familiar with PhotoShop, then Adobe Premiere or Premiere Elements should be right up your alley. Get it, and just try editing some photos into a video first. Then bring in some video once you're comfortable with it. As for the Flip, you can definitely make some great video with it. There are great low-priced cameras out there. Use them first, and decide if video is really for you before you buy a nicer camera.I am more the photographer than the videographer. I am familiar with Photoshop with my photos but none of the video software. Did you find it easy to use? Since I am familiar with editing photos would I be able to just jump into editing video as well? Also, I only have a flip camera for video. Do you think I could do something with that?
Gotta love the attitude of a camera with no viewfinder. It's meant to record a first-person point-of-view of you in action. (Skiing, biking, walking, etc.) I bought one for my brother. The lack of a viewfinder was a dealbreaker for me. I want to see what I'm shooting. The Olympus Tough is a grown up version of the GoPro.I had been looking into the GoPro ... just curious as to your thoughts.
It's definitely not all spontaneous, although the goal is to make it look that way. I've mapped out much of the video in my head as I listen to the song. The hardest part is making each scene quick enough to fit. I like to find a song to which we can tell a story especially songs that have a slow part in the middle. The change of tempo makes for some creative opportunities.Just chiming in again with some questions-
do you do any scripting/storyboarding before the trip? As you listen to your song pre-trip (btw, was your oldest happier with the "edgier" choice?) do you map out some shots, either on your paper or just in your head? Or is all just spontaneous?
Any tips on getting my 14 year old son to participate? He runs the other way as soon as he sees the video camera. Practically the only footage I got of him last trip was him serpentining in front of me trying to get out of the shot.
Betsy, it was SO GREAT meeting up with you. Please tell everyone thanks for playing along, and I'm glad you're back on your feet. And don't worry about your youngest. I thought her smile was adorable just looking around, wondering why we're all so strange.It is an AWESOME video, and we are glad to have had the chance to dance with you guys... I talked about doing something like this (only on a MUCH simpler scale, ) for our trip, but then I broke my ankle, didn't buy the video camera and therefore it didn't get started... BUT we got the chance to dance, so that was cool! Though I didn't realize my youngest just stood there and watched... sorry!
Any suggestions for a newbie, I have looked and looked at the video cameras and the more I looked, the more confused I became, so I didn't get anything. I like the idea of getting underwater footage, and would be open to having 2 different video cameras if a good one out of the water didn't work in the water... any suggestions would be helpful. Definately not a mac user, so I would get the photoshop premiere to work with.
Again, great video, great family, great dancing!!!
Great question, as my answer keeps changing. Our first video we just winged it because we thought we knew the tempo. It worked great, but I realized later we were lucky. Now, I try to keep the song playing on my iPhone. If the crowds are too loud, I put in my earbud and sing out loud while they sing along to my tempo. You can get away without doing that, but never for more than a phrase or two in the song.I have a question about the singing. Do you record each line of the song one time or do you do it a bunch and choose the best at the end?
Gotta keep my boys happy okay, and me too. We'll probably keep exploding heads as our edgier tradition. The girls prefer the Wolf Family Wind Party. (Which we do on our Christmas videos.)That was awesome! Although you did freak out my 3 yo DD when your head went up in flames, LOL. I just told her it was a cool trick
Millie, I think I covered most of your questions already, but let me know if I haven't. As for the commercials, we're in this one, which was only shown in Florida. (It's got Zoe's "I wanna do it again" line.) And also in this one. If you watch closely, you see the kids in their primary commercial here.They have a commercial??!!?? Now I know I'm behind.
...where can I see your commercial??
My younger DD and I just watched it 3x and she wanted to know why I was crying