When Saara talk me about her project with our family, I didn't know really what to do. It was the beginning of Summer... in Finland, it's a very short season. My idea was to enjoy as much as possible the beautiful days.
Finally, after few time, I decided to try to do some "art" with my sons. Always, I have been attracted by video and mainly things made as stop motion or in hyperlapse. So, I started to think than maybe I should try to do something like that with Étienne and Aarni.
So, first thing to do : check software available for Ubuntu to do that.
I found few: Cinelerra, KDenlive, Pitivi and OpenShot Video Editor. I tested them because I have never use this kind of software before with some pictures taken from my hard drive. OpenShot Video Editor is the one which is the most suitable for me.
The second step, I did it with my Jolla phone. It was the first material who comes in my mind. To be honest, mobile phones are not the greatest tools to use for this kind of project. Any way, I success to realize a short video (see below or on the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfnR_quDnq0).
It's very basic but It was also for me my first one ever.
After that, because using a phone is not so easy to realise a series of pictures for goal to realise a film in stop motion, I decided to dust off our old camera to use it with a tripod.
It's a nice camera, a Nikon D40 from the mid 2000's. Very easy to use to do this kind of work. Unfortunately, with this kind of device of 10 years old, the memory card is from the same time. By this fact, I was limited to 1Gb of storage.
I finally success to take 331 pictures to realise my second short. For this one, I also tried to guide the boys as a real director. This last idea was not the best. Spontaneity is better with children like that.
The result.
Available also here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJCbDy4fvcs
