We’ve spent all weekend putting together episode 3 of The Adventures of Flossy and Sol so we hope you like it. This is the first time Sol has narrated an episode and while I’m happy he had a go, I’ve ended up adding subtitles. He’s a lot clearer when speaking naturally but he was having difficulty with some of the bigger words and put off by the microphone. As usual there is a short stop-motion title sequence and I even managed to use green screen again for part of the story.
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.
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!
In case you haven’t had enough of Christmas, our family has edited up a video for your viewing pleasure documenting our first Christmas away from home / at our new home. As I explain in the video, this is episode 1 of The Adventures of Flossy and Sol but carries on from Matt and Sol’s Favourite Things only Felicity now gets a mention in the title and has some lines (she says ‘that’ during the commentary if you listen carefully)
