Check out this new concept for movie editing by Japanese media artist couple Mika Miyabara and Tatsuo Sugimoto’s to help children understand the process of editing.
- Film your story with a digital camera.
- Connect your camera to a computer with Movie Cards software installed.
- The software will print out the movie cards. These small cards show the first image of each sequence taken from your camera.
- Lay your cards on the table and arrange them in which ever order you want them to be.
- Each card has a little QR-code or bar-code, so you can use a scanner or bar-code reader to beep-in your movie cards in the order you decided.
- Preview on your monitor! Done.
I really like the concept. Kids nowadays might be very digitally equipped and computer-savvy, but there’s also a large group that doesn’t have the ability to work with all the software that comes with the electronic toys. Handy cards like these not only teach them about the editing process, the cards also make it very easy to turn the abstract editing process into something comprehensible.
via WMMNA
