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My fatherly pride grows
Feb. 4th, 2009 19:54Katie, dear daughter, following in her father's footsteps. As I write this, she is behind me with a small P.O.S. digital camera mounted on a tripod and a table full of gray-green plasticene* characters, making an animated movie.
At eight years old.
It's only worms and balls right now, but it's her first movie so we'll cut her some slack. So far, she has yet to complete even a full second of "footage". She keeps bumping into the tripod and shifting the scene, so she has to start over each time. Still, the stills I've seen show me that she's got exactly the right idea.
Edit: she came up with 22 still pictures, which I imported into Premiere. It came to about 2 seconds total. She told as much of the story as she wanted to tell: a clay creature tries to talk to a fish (she says it's a fish) and when the fish doesn't respond, the creature lowers its head, disappointed. Interesting to see what stories she tells - how much of her own story she'll tell.
* artist's modeling clay, in case you didn't know.
At eight years old.
It's only worms and balls right now, but it's her first movie so we'll cut her some slack. So far, she has yet to complete even a full second of "footage". She keeps bumping into the tripod and shifting the scene, so she has to start over each time. Still, the stills I've seen show me that she's got exactly the right idea.
Edit: she came up with 22 still pictures, which I imported into Premiere. It came to about 2 seconds total. She told as much of the story as she wanted to tell: a clay creature tries to talk to a fish (she says it's a fish) and when the fish doesn't respond, the creature lowers its head, disappointed. Interesting to see what stories she tells - how much of her own story she'll tell.
* artist's modeling clay, in case you didn't know.