Posted by Doug
Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:12:44 GMT
Josh and I just got back from the Apple Summer Camp: Movie Workshop. It was pretty fun, but fast moving. We were assigned a project to create a 30 second commercial for anything in the Apple store. Earlier that morning the “camp counselors” had shot some raw footage for the Nike+iPod shoes. Right after telling us our assignment, they went through importing and editing their video to produce a commercial. They added music and a voice over and some transitions. They then turned us loose to shoot our own video.
Josh decided to shoot a video for Star Wars Battlefront. We had 10 minutes to shoot the video and 30 minutes to edit and produce the commercial. We ended up with a pretty good little video (2MB Quicktime).
I took my Panasonic PV-GS180 DV camcorder and my Macbook Pro. It’s a good thing too because they didn’t have enough cameras for everyone to use. Their plan was to use the built in iSights on the various Macs. Also, my Macbook Pro was pretty snappy for edits and such.
All in all we had fun. I’m going to try and get Josh to do another video today at home while it’s still fresh in his mind. We’re both looking forward to tomorrow’s iWeb Workshop.
UPDATED: We had about 30 minutes to kill before the camp started. Josh and I created this three page comic using Comic Life called
Camping Chaos (3MB PDF)—zero prior experience. I actually think Josh had more fun with this than making the movie!
Posted in Movies, Family, Software, Mac OS X | Tags Apple, camping, comiclife, creativity, Josh, Kids, MacbookPro, video | 2 comments
Posted by Doug
Sun, 09 Jul 2006 03:34:04 GMT
Speaking of photos, I also took some pretty good T-Ball photos today. It was my middle son, Justin’s, first T-Ball game! He’s sat on the sidelines and watched his big brother play sports for more than a couple years. He was very excited about it being his turn to play.
He’s playing in the YMCA league. We’re very happy with it so far. We had Josh playing in a local chapter of the official Little League Baseball. The YMCA league seems much more focused on fun and learning. I don’t mean to trash Little League, but the YMCA league has a kid to coach ratio of like 4:1. Today’s game didn’t score; everybody hits every inning, everybody runs!
Anyway, it was fun and I’m really pleased with the photos.
Posted in Family, Photography, Community | Tags ball, Justin, Kids, Photo, sports, t, YMCA | no comments
Posted by Doug
Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:37:08 GMT
My oldest son, Josh, can go to Apple Summer Camp this year. I’ve signed him up for the Movie Workshop and iWeb Workshop.
“Summer Camp” is a bit of a misnomer. Each “camp” is 3 hours on one day. Since Josh is under 13, I’ll need to take off work to be there with him. It should be fun! The idea is to actually finish a project and take it home burned on DVD. Plus he gets a T-Shirt for each “camp” he goes to.
Oh, and Josh has been asking me about teaching him to write games. I’m not sure which direction do go here. I have so much respect for The Pragmatic Programmers I’m tempted to get Learn to Program. On the other hand, I’m also tempted to do something like Beginning Flash Game Programming for Dummies. I’ve heard good things about Learn to Program. I’d expect that it would give a good foundation in programming. But Flash is… well flashy. If you have any input on the subject of teaching pre-teens to program I’d love to hear it.
Posted in Josh, Family, Programming, Mac OS X | Tags Apple, camp, Josh, Kids, programming | 3 comments
