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Finished Video for Story, Design, Learning Class

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Marymount is offering professional development classes after school on Mondays and Wednesdays. Frank Migliorelli is teaching a class on Story, Design, and Learning. Our second assignment was to make a short film title video.

A few weeks ago, David Valdini took some pictures as I showed a small group of girls how to use some of the machines in the Fab Lab. When I scrolled through the pictures later, it reminded me of a stop motion animation or old-timey silent film. I wanted to combine them into an animation and then Frank gave us this assignment, so I had the perfect excuse.

I made the music by finding a midi file of Maple Leaf Rag and then recording it with a electronic sounding instrument in GarageBand.

Yesterday I finished the video by making and filming the final “A Marymount Fab Lab Production” bit. I used the lasercutter to cut the letters and the exhaust of a vacuum cleaner to blow them away. The sequence is slowed down and played in reverse.

I think it came out OK. The shooting stars in the title slides are annoying, so I’ll have to take some time to make a custom title slide. Also, I’d like the film to have more of a story arc. I showed it to David and he is willing to do another photo shoot, but next time we will stage it with a story in mind.

I forgot to attribute the photographs to David Valdini. So I’ll have to go back and fix that at some point.

One Day in the Fab Lab from Jaymes Dec on Vimeo.

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March 20th, 2012 at 11:13 am

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