how I made a movie with a camera

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So, I have a fun and very random thing to share with you guys. Up above, I combine my love of photography and fun dance parties to make the movie you see. It was super spontaneous and not planned out, that’s why my friend Zach and I are just doing random stuff, mostly involving one person disappearing and the other appearing along with dance moves- it’s okay, you can laugh if you want. When you’re done laughing, if you’re asking “how did you do that?” it was soo simple I’m going to share with you all.

Back in the day movies had more in common with photography in that they were made up of still frames that played together really fast to show motion. You see where I’m going…. so you can still do the same thing, and achieve a lot of different effect by the number of frames you take and how you put them together.

So, when Zach and I made this, it went a lot slower than you see in the finished product. We took turns taking pictures on a camera that was set in one spot so that the only thing that would be moving was us, not the room. Next time I do one I think the camera will be traveling somewhere too :] We planned out the shots to try and make a cohesive and continuous motion throughout each frame and then put them all together in imovie! We didn’t have enough action for the whole song, but it was a blast to make, and you should try it out! Oh, I should add I did some quick (and some what messy) photoshop work on some of the frames to achieve what we were going for ;]