It started out as an effort to take pictures of the shop's stylists, but then we started taking pictures of the various locations inside and outside of the shop.
Soon I had a bunch of pictures and we started talking about what to do with them, when I remembered the movie function in Picasa (a Technology Plumbing favorite).
The Picasa movie function is not going to make you a Steven Spielberg, but it does allow you to select a series of pictures, create some nice transitions, add some music and you have poor man's "Ken Burns Effect" video.
Once you create the video, you can upload it to YouTube (part of the Google umbrella). Once uploaded and processed the video can be linked and / or embedded into your website.
Now the video is OK for what it needs to do, but I definitely learned some lessons.
- The music is important to set the tone. My original soundtrack was nice but didn't give enough piazza. My "critics" were very happy to provide some alternative soundtracks that made it work.
- When you are using pictures as video, you can't have enough pictures. If you think you have enough, take more to give the video more "movement". I want to add some pictures in the next version of the video.
- All of Ken Burn's videos use a lot of voice over narration. My video has no narration, but that too will be added in a future version of the video.
Let me know your thoughts on using pictures and videos.
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