Electronic greeting cards are getting too corny. Do you even open the ones you get? A typed-up Valentine's Day message just does not feel quite personal. For this Valentine's Day, try sending your sweetheart a message with Sketchcast.com. Sketchcast is an internet drawing application that lets you get creative and romantic with a pen and an eraser. Best of all, it's in your hand-writing. Now, that's personal. And therefore romantic.
Here are 3 Valentine's Day sketchcast to start off your creative juices flowing.
This first one, is just a simple I love You. But I dare say your sweetheart has not seen it expressed this way. Read more
I recorded this scene at my work place. It was a weekend afternoon and I had to go into work for something I don't even remember anymore. Anyway, I brought my two kids in and they played some fooz ball while I worked. Then I gave them each a dollar bill to choose whatever they wanted from the vending machine. She wanted Twizzlers. I happened to have my video camcorder.
This video should be required classroom material for any college psychology class. How about you? Did you get the Twizzlers of your life or did someone talk you into having something else instead?
It's almost camping season again. Stowing away to nature, if sometimes only for a weekend, restores the spirit as little else can. As Richard Langer wrote in his classic book, 'Joy of Camping', "Once in a while we should treat ourselves to counting falling stars between the branches of a sheltering tree above our heads or beyond the misty gauze of our netted tent entrance, while other folks are home watching late-night movie reruns".
This musical video brings out the beauty and lure of camping. Notice that it was created from nothing but still images that was strung together with music added to it. This is a very simple video editing project that you can quickly put together with Windows Movie Maker (free software from Microsoft).
If I can only give you one advice for making home movies, it's this: Don't just record events, make a story. What's in a good story? An unexpected twist.
Watch this video below and you'll agree, it's not turning out the way you assumed it would …
Did your kids ever get the honor of bringing home the class pet during school holidays? Many years from now, they won't remember what was taught in school but they'll remember that class pet experience.
Video Editing Tips
Show contrast (in this case, peace, then shrieks)
An opening music brings out the peaceful mood in the beginning
Capture children's voices - something you'll miss a lot when they are grown.
This one's a treat for your dog. S/he'll thank you for showing him such a valuable guide.
Note that there is no raw video footage in this video. It's just 5 pictures strung together.
Add music, captions, a little zoom and pan, lotsa humor, and presto! you put a smile on someone's face.
