UP AND RUNNING: ANIMOTO.COM's CONTRIBUTION TO MY PARTICIPATION IN THE NEH WORKSHOP...
A first for me, John Davidek! After receiving a 30-second video from a fellow NEH participant, Medody Dickison, a teacher at Wayne High School, Huber Heights, Ohio, I suddenly realized that I could muster up enough creativity to produce one too. In fact, it was relatively easy to do.
All I had to do was select a group of the digital photographs taken while in Hawaii...then speed them off to the masters at ANIMOTO.com and--voila'--a digitalized version of a video, using my images, was produced! They'll do a 30-second one for free. which is generous of them. For a whopping $3 they'll lengthen the video production to perhaps 2-3 minutes, which is even more generous of them! Music? They provide selections, or you can create your own...which I didn't have a clue as to how to accomplish that on my own. I chose some relatively mild "mood" music, one in which the lyrics cannot be understood. It came out quite well, I think. I'm gonna use it often in introducing Hawaii and what we studied while we were there.
I was so excited at my new-found "expertise" that I sent the video to just about everyone I know. It's "amateur, but it still evokes a certain professionality--largely because THEY were the ones who put it all together. I was thinking that we took thousands of images while in South Africa: next project, a video using those wonderful, beautiful photographs with an appropriate sound-track to showcase our year there. It might take hours and hours, but it will be worth it.
I'm not sure how I can utilize the newly created video on this blog, or anywhere else for that matter. Ivan, my 9-year-old son, where are you?
All I had to do was select a group of the digital photographs taken while in Hawaii...then speed them off to the masters at ANIMOTO.com and--voila'--a digitalized version of a video, using my images, was produced! They'll do a 30-second one for free. which is generous of them. For a whopping $3 they'll lengthen the video production to perhaps 2-3 minutes, which is even more generous of them! Music? They provide selections, or you can create your own...which I didn't have a clue as to how to accomplish that on my own. I chose some relatively mild "mood" music, one in which the lyrics cannot be understood. It came out quite well, I think. I'm gonna use it often in introducing Hawaii and what we studied while we were there.I was so excited at my new-found "expertise" that I sent the video to just about everyone I know. It's "amateur, but it still evokes a certain professionality--largely because THEY were the ones who put it all together. I was thinking that we took thousands of images while in South Africa: next project, a video using those wonderful, beautiful photographs with an appropriate sound-track to showcase our year there. It might take hours and hours, but it will be worth it.
I'm not sure how I can utilize the newly created video on this blog, or anywhere else for that matter. Ivan, my 9-year-old son, where are you?
posted by John Davidek, Fulbright South Africa-2006 @ 7:42 PM
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2 Comments:
Military photos always catch my eye. Has anyone else mentioned the flag flying over the Arizona Memorial is permanently at half mast? Peering down at the Arizona struck me as kind of eerie. Good photo. But what? No picture of Diamond Head?
Did you get to visit Hickam AFB? Hickam has some buildings that still show bomb damage. I learned that Hawaii has a law that prohibits repair of that kind of damage. (Lest we forget).
Hmmmmmm, we were told that the flag was flying half-mast because of the death of a U.S.Park Ranger who had been fighting forest fires in California recently. Yes, the USS Arizona was impressively eerie, especially when one considers the close to a thousand men entombed there. We were told that survivors prefer their ashes to be entombed within the shell of th ship--the ones that are now reaching old age and are dying. Diamond Head was not that impressive to me...not after being to Cape Town, S.Africa...and witnessing the awesome beauty of Table Mountain. Diamond Head IS impressive once you've climbed it, which I did, bum knee and all! What IS spectacular is the VIEW from Diamond Head! We toured everything that related to the attack on Pearl Harbor. I featured some of the buildings at Hickam AFB in my Animoto.com video...huge bullet marks evident everywhere.
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