The Adventures of Flossy and Sol – 02 – Sale
It’s Australia Day eve and the kids are asleep, Steph is watching The Mentalist just because it’s on and I’ve just uploaded the second episode of The Adventures of Flossy and Sol in which we discuss the town of Sale, Victoria.
Notes:
Music is by You Am I: The Applecross Wing Commander from the Hi Fi Way album.
This episode marks my first use of iMovie 9’s greenscreen effect for the title stop motion sequence in which we make some little paper roulettes fly by. I used a small green sheet and some green cardboard which was a slightly different shade and you can see it pretty easily. I also had trouble wrestling a freeze frame of the green screened clip so ended up importing a still which iMovie rendered as a different colour blue. In short, while you can do greenscreen in iMovie 9, you have very little control and it turns out greenscreen needs very careful lighting to avoid shadows and also I probably should have used paint and used the exact same colour on everything.
Last year we bought a harddisk video camera and looking at footage from it here, it looks very blurry and over compressed. I’m not sure if it’s a fault with the camera, the Mac or if it’s just that the camera has always been poor quality – I think it is the latter. It is a pretty low end camera but I was expecting better – my iPhone gives better quality video!
