Make Marvelous Movies by Tony Vincent

These are my notes from Tony Vincent‘s Miami Device breakout session, “Make Marvelous Movies.” MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS.

All session resources are on:
http://learninginhand.com/mdmovies

Follow Tony Vincent on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/tonyvincent

TONY IS “THE CONSUMMATE EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONAL – I LOVE LEARNING FROM HIM! I LOVED HOW HE HELPED US BOTH REMINICE ABOUT HOW MOVIEMAKING “USED TO BE IN THE OLD DAYS” OF iMacs & FIREWIRE CABLES IN THIS SESSION, BUT ALSO LEARN SO MANY NEW IDEAS AND PRACTICAL APPROACHES TO USING MOVIEMAKING WITH STUDENTS

   by  Wesley Fryer 

short clips are great because:
– visually interesting
– rarely zooms and pans
– illusion of multiple cameras
– shorter lines
– script just off camera

“CollabraCam: Multicam Social Video Production” is great app for multiple-camera videos using iOS devices, but it wouldn’t work on the wifi network here at MiamiDevice

MY COMMENT: I USED COLLABRACAM BACK IN JANUARY 2012 AND LOVED THE IDEA BUT FOUND IT BUGGY AT THE TIME. HOPEFULLY IT WILL CONTINUE TO IMPROVE!

Splice app for iOS is so easy & free
– can bring together photos, videos, and transitions to combine
– less of a learning curve than iMovie

Technique: use black and white
– usually shows something old or bad
– we just saw this used in many campaign ads: “Can we trust so-and-so…”

Slow motion: makes it more dramatic

Documents 5 by Readdle will let us “open in another app”
– use it to open music (‘open in’) in iMovie

Phenomenon when people record videos: “fire hosing”
– instead of panning, stopping and doing another video: that is best

MY COMMENT: YEP, THIS IS IN WIKTIONARY:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/firehosing

Light tripod for mobile videography Tony likes and has:
tonyv.me/zipshotpod

transitions tell your audience the time and/or place of the video has changed, so use them sparingly

Action Movie FX app
– takes your video and does a green-screenish effects, Hollywood effects

MY COMMENT: I AM SO GETTING THIS FOR MY CLASSROOM iPAD CART FOR STUDENT VIDEOS!

Horizon – Horizontal HD Video Recorder (lock iOS device to avoid vertical videos)

Edited version of a YouTube video Tony partially shared during his session – I LOVE THIS!

Vertical Video Syndrome – PSA – Edited For Kids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVDh9WuhYT0

WHAT A FANTASTIC SESSION BY TONY! IF YOU ARE NOT FOLLOWING TONY AND READING / SUBSCRIBED TO HIS BLOG YOU NEED TO REMEDY THAT NOW. 🙂

ALSO DOWNLOAD THE iOS APP “STICK AROUND” WHICH TONY CO-DEVELOPED WITH MORRISCOOKE, THE CREATORS OF “EXPLAIN EVERYTHING.”