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April 26, 2009
Making Claymation Videos
I bought my first Flip video camera last week. I bought it in Manhattan for $179. It's the new version with rechargeable batteries. (The old versions are running $149. but need endless AAA batteries.)
Now I'm starting to play with it.
I highly commend David Sifry's (Sifry's Alerts) blog posting here to you.
Great Kids Afternoon Project: Claymation!
Watch the video too. Apparently it's easy. I can't wait to try soon - once I get simple indoor and outdoor live action under my belt.
Anyway, the technique demonstrated in this video and the instructions would work just fine with the same techniques using post-it notes, whiteboards and coloured markets, flip charts and markers, mini-figures like Lego or Fisher-Price, or other animation ideas. It's simple stop-action photography in the hands of the masses!
Let your imagination run free! Your library will look so cool!
Of course you can make this a program for kids and teens at your library. And since the Flip can connect directly and right away to a TV, they can see the results of their work right away.
Stephen
Posted by stephen at April 26, 2009 9:41 AM
Comments
Another easy way to make library videos that I just discovered is http://www.xtranormal.com.
I posted one here:
http://chrisbourg.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/library-promo-video-using-xtranormalcom/
Posted by: Chris Bourg at April 27, 2009 12:00 PM