This assignment I did is called Activity Time Lapse where you must create a time lapse video of an activity. Using the time lapse feature on my iPhone I shot myself preparing dog’s dog food and giving it to him. Then, I dropped the video audio and added in some theme background music using iMovie. Overall, this was cool to see how the video turned out, and the only difficulty I faced was holding my phone to record the video while preparing my dog’s dog food at the same time. You can see the video below.
Hey everyone, here’s a time lapse of some of the work that I’ve done on my motorcycle.
Like I say in the video, I took a ton of footage throughout the process of the project, but I got tired of constantly moving the camera around, and my phone constantly running out of battery. It’s a shame that I never finished it up. I made the time lapse in iMovie on my phone and then transported it to my laptop and uploaded it from there, easy as pie. iMovie also makes it really easy to record voiceovers too- by the way.
From the footage I had collected, I definitely had the potential to make one of the most detailed ‘non-professional’ belt-to-chain conversion videos on YouTube. It sounds super vague, but it is actually an extremely in-demand tutorial, because good tutorials save people hundreds of dollars that they would’ve spent at the shop if they can’t do it themselves. For the cheap gearhead, its a financially sound, fun hobby. Plus the major upside is that you end up with a cool, unique bike, that you built up yourself. It is really something special.
It’s unfortunate that just a few days ago, I finally deleted all of the footage off of my phone (permanently, I even checked my recently deleted folder) because I thought I was never going to do anything with it. It would’ve been the perfect reason to finally make the video up, but too little too late I suppose!
I hope the gist of the video/process still gets across with the few clips and photos that I saved of the process, if you want any information about the process or identification of what a part might be, let me know and I’d be happy to talk about it more down below!
When I was in elementary school, we were often given an assignment in which we had to come up with an idea for an invention, something not necessarily practical but definitely useful. I always invented some variation on a machine that cleans your room for you.
My machine often took on those classic names like “the amazing clean-o-matic.” There were modiels that were like mechanical fishing poles, programmed to hook objects lying on the ground and identify their proper location. Even more spectacular was the model that made you more efficient as a cleaner, you would work at super sonic speed, racing around the room, folding socks in a blur. I remember so many summer days foiled by my mothers demands that I clean up my pig sty of a room, she would shout that it looked like a tornado had come through, that it was a fire hazard. It always got so treacherous in the summertime when there was much to be done. During the school year, there is plenty to procrastinate on and my bedroom was typically clean and tidy. But in the summers, as my room slowly descended into chaos, I could always sense when my mother’s breaking point would hit, and eventually the tension that only clutter can cause would boil over and I’d be ordered to clean. As I spent what could have been time outside playing kick the can and capture the flag with the neighborhood kids, I lamented in my torture wishing that my inventions could just become reality. I vowed to one day become an inventor who could actually create a room-cleaning machine to rescue the summer days of the children of the future.
Years later, and my room still becomes consumed by clutter in the summers. This summer, I have a roommate and he and I are particularly unkempt. We each work more than 40 hours a week and try to pack as much adventure into our days as we can, so our extremely small bedroom is easily overrun by dirty clothes, stained coffee mugs and sandy beach towels. I chose to complete a time lapse video of us cleaning up our room, to try and satisfy my past self who always wished she could clean her room at super sonic speed.
I was inspired now, and as a kid, by Loonette’s Ten Second Tidies from the children’s show The Big Comfy Couch:
Tutorial-
All of the footage for this video was taken on the iPhone 7 using the time-lapse setting. We had to create a mount on the wall using electrical tape so that we could get a vantage point that showed the messy floor of the room. The timelapse was then uploaded to a macbook computer and uploaded to iMovie.
The entire video was shot in a single take, so no editing of the footage was necessary.
Music was then added to the clip in the background, the original video did not have any audio.
The movie was then exported to a file acceptable for upload, although the file was too large to be uploaded to Vimeo or to be directly uploaded to my WordPress blog, so it was uploaded to my YouTube account.
Once the video was uploaded to YouTube, it was embedded in this WordPress blog post.
I had so much patience to do this! This was a really fun activity to complete. It was crazy to see something that took me 45 minutes to do was condensed to 30 seconds!
For my last assignment, I chose to do the “activity time-lapse” assignment (3.5 stars). The point of this was to videotape some sort of activity you do or some specific task and then speed it up. I chose to film my nightly cup of tea since I thought the tea pot would look cool when it steamed, but it didn’t steam, it just squealed really loudly and you can’t even hear that on the video.. oops. But I still think the video is cool, it showed my journey walking down the stairs and turning all the lights on, so I think that part of the video is interesting since it fades to gray/black and then a quick burst of light. I filmed this on my phone and then used the “hyperlapse” app to speed it up. Enjoy!
For the Activity Time Lapse assignment, worth 3.5 stars, I chose to make a time lapse video of me braiding my hair in a basic side braid. I used the time lapse feature on my iPhone to record it. However, that made the time lapse 4.0 seconds long. So, on the Youtube video editing settings, I slowed it down and I added a filter to it because the lighting my apartment is not very great, so I wanted to mask it.
Since I just used the time lapse setting on my iphone 6, I’ll give myself 2 stars instead of the 3.5 it suggests for the Activity Time Lapse assignment. This was a fun little assignment to do. I don’t do my make up very often, so I thought this would be the prefect activity to see in fast mode. For you boys, you see what girls have to go through! It takes me about 10 minutes, but this video condensed it to less than 30 seconds. Here you go!
For my second video assignment for these two weeks I decided to do the “Activity Time Lapse” (3.5 stars). I thought it would be fun to do. I especially wish I had more time this week to do an art project and do a time lapse of that, but of course I don’t so I had to be a little more creative. I decided to do a time lapse video of me making popcorn–because who doesn’t like popcorn and also I wanted to eat some.
How I did it:
I saw that there was a time lapse function on my iPhone so I decided to try it out with this assignment. I hit start recording and grabbed my popcorn, walked upstairs and put it in the microwave and watched it pop. I watched it on my phone and thought it was a little too fast so I emailed it to myself and downloaded it. I then put it into Windows Live Movie Maker and slowed it down to half speed. That was perfect, I thought, so I exported it and went to zamzar to change it to MP4 and uploaded it to YouTube.
Hey guys, so for this weeks visual assignment I decided to do a time lapse video of an activity. At first when I saw this assignment I thought to myself wow, this might be a little hard but after doing so many other assignments, it came to me very naturally. To start I had to actually film myself completing an action. After I filmed it, I uploaded it to the basic computer software Windows movie maker.
While in windows movie maker I was able to change the angle of the video and cut the parts I did not want. To make those alterations, I had to go to the edit tab.
As you can see, I changed the angle and I used the trim features to cut out the parts of the video that I did not want. After I trim out all of the parts I did not want, I sped up the video so that it was what I think is time lapsed. Instead of it being 3 minutes long, it turned out to be about 38 seconds.
Before I show the video, I wanted to let you guys know my inspiration for choosing this activity. Well my boyfriend and I just celebrated our five year anniversary and he brought me these beautiful roses. So while I was putting them in a vase, I decided why not film it! Without further or due, here is the finished product.
Making a time lapse video isn’t something I’ve done before, and it’s pretty easy as things go. I decided to make a time lapse of daily quests in Mount Hyjal from World of Warcraft because it has a pretty substantial story behind it instead of just being a group of quests with smaller objectives – Hyjal chains about 9-10 of them together with a massive quest chain prefacing the final set of dailies. This should make the video a bit enjoyable even for those who have never played WoW before.
To make this, I started off with Camtasia’s screen recording function:
This is a screenshot of the screen recording interface, right in the middle, even though this is from a different assignment. I just left it running as it recorded one frame per second while I played the game, and I sped up the final clip by 1400% after about 20 minutes of gameplay.
I recorded no audio with the video, so I put some suitable marching music to the background – March of Mephisto by Kamelot. I cut the music to have only instrumentals so no distracting lyrics interrupted the marching beat. That was easy enough in Camtasia using Cut, Copy, and Paste, and I just made sure that it looped at least slightly well from one repeat of the clip to the next. I think there’s still a little bit of a jarring switch from the old repeat to the new one, but I did the best I could with it.
After that, I narrated the preface in a lengthy explanation so I could make sure everyone got something out of the video instead of just seeing a massive number of game frames. This part took the longest, as I had to take several recordings and splice all of them together, again, in Camtasia, using the Voiceover function that time. The final result ended up looking like this after eliminating as much breathing and verbal ticks as I could:
