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Backing up Film Clips from multiple iPads
Kingston Mobilelite Wireless
Is a nifty little device that we have been using to collate image and video files from a number of devices in to one central backup. Easy to use and it just works - Recommended!
Great app for alternative titling based around a virtual Letterpress printing process.
The Playroom - Pixelation Animation at Ashbrow
A great story unfolded in an unconventional approach to narrative storytelling with a group of 11 pupils at Ashbrow School this week. We started by exploring genre through music, and used iPads and apps to create a variety of short musical pieces (see Nicks earlier post here).
The iStopmotion app has proven to be our Stopmotion app of choice when animating with the iPad. Its friendly interface and powerful feature set are a great combination. When used in conjunction with the iOgrapher case and a 37mm lens this is an amazing tool. The pupils quickly mastered the interface and were able to navigate the menus, delete frames (where necessary) and change and lock settings for focus, exposure and white balance.
The pupils worked in pairs creating sequences suggested by the music, starting with an action themed piece which the pupils thought was reminiscent of a blockbuster car chase theme.
This in turn then informed further sequences as a narrative emerged.
All photos by Yvonne Roberts.
Music at Ashbrow
The students of Ashbrow have had a prolific couple of days, making some fantastic music in a variety of styles. From sleuth tunes to sci-fi synths, it’s been an exciting exploration of genres!
For this we tested and used a few new apps. Firstly the iJ Bass HD has been impressive, owing to its high quality audio output and an innovative interface. The main screen shows a realistic bass-neck design for playing in a similar way to the real thing, but it also shows also a versatile and user-friendly method of arranging relevant notes in groups of editable bubbles to facilitate playing without sacrificing any artistic freedom. This has made it ideal for including everyone in the music making.
We also used the Songbird iPhone app, which uses an ocarina style interface to control many different (and often exotic) virtual instruments. The breadth of instruments available and the ease of the note-creation made this a hit with students.
Samvada was another fun app we used, with great sounds, a drone option and plenty of non-western scales to play with.
The last new app we briefly tested was Voice Bot, a vocoder with a keyboard interface and an inbuilt penchant for robot sounds. This was enjoyable to use and added some entertaining additions to the soundtracks.
Walking at Ashbrow with Benjamin Rabe
Project guest creative (Hamburg based) Benjamin Rabe writes about his time supporting young people at Ashbrow School.
This week I have the pleasure to join the Shoot Smart project and to work with 11 pupils from Ashbrow together with Fabric Lenny – and wow, are those kids great at … walking.
Yes. Walking.
That – from these days on – will be my answer, if anybody asks me what Stop Motion Animation is all about. You will be walking. A lot. For every small animation step, you will have to walk into the set, walk out of it again, make your shot. And repeat.
But of course, animation is about more than just walking: it's about the magic of bringing inanimate objects to life. "Are you magicians?", was of one of the questions the kids asked the first day. And yes, that is what they are now for a week, 11 little magicians, writing their own storyline (a car chase will be part of it), producing their own music (beeps and blips, from romance to drama; Kudos to Nick Lewis here for doing great work with the kids), creating an amazing 3 minute stop motion film – and all that using only and just iPads.
I was amazed by the commitment the kids showed in doing this sometimes tedious process, and the wow-moments we shared when they finally were able to hit the play button seeing all those objects come to life. I can't wait to see the final result that waits for us at the end of this week-long walk we are taking together.
All images by Yvonne Roberts
Location Sound Recording on the iPad - 2
After trying a number of approaches to capturing clean sound using the iPad, we seem to have found a great product combo! The iRig Pre is an awesome little device that allows you to use an existing XLR mic with the iPad for clean and trouble free sound capture. Used in conduction with the Rode Record app this is a flexible and high quality solution, easy to use and with clean and crisp results - Recommended!
Location Sound Recording with the iPad
An amazing iPad filming week at North Huddersfield Trust School, supporting a group of 10 great students make their short film ‘Meredith’.
Here are a selection of images showing the process of recording location sound with the iPad.
First Day of Filming at North Huddersfield Trust School
A fantastic day of iPad based filming and editing at NHTS with a wonderfully enthusiastic group of young people. Some amazing shots and the makings of what could be a fine film!
More Animating at Thurstonland!
More ambitious animating and making today using iPads to develop and shoot the short film 'Monkey and Wombat'. The children captured animation using 2 iPads (running iStopmotion) housed within the iOgrapher case with additional lenses. The lenses offered much more flexibility when animating on two devices, allowing for the capture of close up shots and wides simultaneously.
An amazing day animating 'Monkey and Wombat' at Thurstonland First School today. The group of ten amazingly focused young animators shot over 30 sequences, equating to over a minute of animation. That is out of this world! Using a remote Bluetooth device to capture images through iStopmotion was a great move and has taken much of the stress out of animating with the iPad. Grab one here.
Making a Soundtrack at Battyeford
Some incredible music making has been occurring over the past couple of days at Battyeford. For this the students experimented with two new apps: Real Ukulele and Real Piano. Both had easy to use, realistic interfaces and were perfect for the nautical sounds the students were aiming to create; Real Piano even had an accordion setting! They also tested the DM1 drum machine, using drum and string settings to create a rhythmic basis for the music.
The students also briefly used the inbuilt iPad microphone to record vocals for one element of the music, with some surprisingly good results. A group arranged and mixed their music themselves using harmonicdog’s DAW, and got the hang of this workstation amazingly quickly and were mixing like experts in no time!
Real Ukulele app
Real Piano app
A great day with the Copper Beard Crew at Battyeford today, iPad music and Animation!! Super Fantastic!
Another amazing making day today with the Shoot Smart Group in Thurstonland. The settings and characters look wonderful, as do these photographs by Yvonne Roberts. The test sequences shot using the iStopmotion app are really encouraging! Whoop! Can't wait to start animating for real!
Another great making day today prepping characters and set designs. More polystyrene balls, tissue paper, Posca pens and magnetic replacement features. We even found time to shoot a couple of test sequences of the Skeleton Crew, using the iPad mini and the iOgrapher case running the app iStopmotion for iPad.
Character Building - Copper Beard and Co
Making blog - We have been using wire, tissue, foam, polystyrene balls, cardboard tubes, pva glue and posca pens to create our characters for our new film. We have been making big and little versions of the different characters that will appear in our story. We need big Rabbit Dolls (for instance) for close up's and small ones for wide shots, we have made three versions of each character. "My favourite characters are the rabbits because I enjoyed making their eyes and they look really colourful and clear with the decoration." Caleb "I have enjoyed everything today, doing the posca drawings over the dry characters " Emily "Well Copper Beard has had his name changed, he used to just have a purple head but we have brought him to life today by adding clothes, a beard, a mouth, eyes, his hat and hair which actually made of fur..." Finlay Pirate Jokes from today.... What is a Pirates favourite lesson? Arrrrrrrrrrrrttttt! Where the did the Pirate go on his holiday? To the Arrrrrrrrrrrcade What is a Pirates favourite animal? An Arrrrrrrrrrrmadillo or maybe a Gorillaaaaaaaarrrrrrr
The young filmmakers chose to utilize an approach to character building that they had encountered in early years whilst working with artist Samantha Bryan. Sam's work can be seen here and here. "When we are at this stage it is a bit like a production line of workers crafting various character body parts, the children get really adept at manipulating the materials, their skills are honed. They have had great fun today seeing the characters really come together." Natalie Deane