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oh no i need to learn videography.
i’ve been resisting it for. well, forever. but. i need to do it. i need to make videos for the farm. they don’t understand that i need to do this, but i do.
as it happens though. i was just watching a how-to, expecting it to be all in the software but. the videographer (an insufferably-waxed-moustached hipster in Paris) was demonstrating on… oh. basically the camera i own. and was like. listen the camera just has settings so you can set them. if this isn’t the camera you have then you’ll have to do the math outlined in the article below and push a button a bunch of times. but if you have this camera then just set all these settings correctly and make some informed choices i’m explaining now, and then the camera just– exports you a whole movie and it’s ready to go.
oh. well i feel dumb now. but. hey. in my defense i bought this camera for photography and have been sort of stubbornly resisting learning anything about video for like a decade. so. i guess i deserved that.
so anyway even if i don’t figure out literally anything else, I’ll at least know how to make basic time-lapse videos.
and of course i’ll make one of a plant growing don’t be silly. and a flower blooming. on the one hand wind is a problem with that but on the other hand my sister grows at least some of her flowers in hoop-houses and also if i stake and tie down the flower in question so that it’s still i can certainly get a good video that way.
yes i know they’re overdone but i’m going to do them anyway.
i also really want time-lapse dashboard camera videos of Morning Chores etc.
and i’m going to wear down b-i-l to let us have a Chicken Cam. I totally understand his reluctance– nature is red in tooth and claw and some seriously sick shit goes on in a large chicken flock from time to time, so you’ve got to be judicious about what you show. This is also why he won’t let us have a Baby Turkey cam, because those fuckers murder (and consume, it’s gross) each other all the time. But. The vast majority of the footage would be really cute, so.
I’m going to have to invest in a cheap handicam at some point, so that I can set it up to watch various livestocks be cute as B-roll for various of the videos. I also want to do two-camera cooking show-style videos. I’ll probably need a microphone too. And honestly a drone cam would be incredibly useful too. I’m trying not to spend a jillion dollars though because none of this is going to be paid work, it’s all just for the farm, and. Yeah.
But here’s the thing. I’m not selling the videos, and they’re not precisely advertisements, per se, but. Cute fun aesthetic shit like that can go viral, or at least be pretty widely viewed in various digital communities, and that is valuable both for promoting the actual farm itself (veggie share signups, meat sales, egg sales, local support, future possible kickstarter-style campaigns and the like) but also for promoting all the ideals the farm is run by– sustainable local foodways, organic methods, the whole concept of a farm share/CSA, and so on. So that’s how I’m spinning this, at least to myself.
The vegetable manager actually has a real live bachelor’s degree in animation. He minored in, like, cinematography. His career as a farmer has come wildly out of left field, if you just look at his transcript. So I bet I’ll have an ally in this. And a knowledgeable one; his father was a successful commercial photographer for much of his childhood.
So anyway. Here’s hoping I can actually… do this.
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oh no i need to learn videography.
i’ve been resisting it for. well, forever. but. i need to do it. i need to make videos for the farm. they don’t understand that i need to do this, but i do.
as it happens though. i was just watching a how-to, expecting it to be all in the software but. the videographer (an insufferably-waxed-moustached hipster in Paris) was demonstrating on… oh. basically the camera i own. and was like. listen the camera just has settings so you can set them. if this isn’t the camera you have then you’ll have to do the math outlined in the article below and push a button a bunch of times. but if you have this camera then just set all these settings correctly and make some informed choices i’m explaining now, and then the camera just– exports you a whole movie and it’s ready to go.
oh. well i feel dumb now. but. hey. in my defense i bought this camera for photography and have been sort of stubbornly resisting learning anything about video for like a decade. so. i guess i deserved that.
so anyway even if i don’t figure out literally anything else, I’ll at least know how to make basic time-lapse videos.
and of course i’ll make one of a plant growing don’t be silly. and a flower blooming. on the one hand wind is a problem with that but on the other hand my sister grows at least some of her flowers in hoop-houses and also if i stake and tie down the flower in question so that it’s still i can certainly get a good video that way.
yes i know they’re overdone but i’m going to do them anyway.
i also really want time-lapse dashboard camera videos of Morning Chores etc.
and i’m going to wear down b-i-l to let us have a Chicken Cam. I totally understand his reluctance– nature is red in tooth and claw and some seriously sick shit goes on in a large chicken flock from time to time, so you’ve got to be judicious about what you show. This is also why he won’t let us have a Baby Turkey cam, because those fuckers murder (and consume, it’s gross) each other all the time. But. The vast majority of the footage would be really cute, so.
I’m going to have to invest in a cheap handicam at some point, so that I can set it up to watch various livestocks be cute as B-roll for various of the videos. I also want to do two-camera cooking show-style videos. I’ll probably need a microphone too. And honestly a drone cam would be incredibly useful too. I’m trying not to spend a jillion dollars though because none of this is going to be paid work, it’s all just for the farm, and. Yeah.
But here’s the thing. I’m not selling the videos, and they’re not precisely advertisements, per se, but. Cute fun aesthetic shit like that can go viral, or at least be pretty widely viewed in various digital communities, and that is valuable both for promoting the actual farm itself (veggie share signups, meat sales, egg sales, local support, future possible kickstarter-style campaigns and the like) but also for promoting all the ideals the farm is run by– sustainable local foodways, organic methods, the whole concept of a farm share/CSA, and so on. So that’s how I’m spinning this, at least to myself.
The vegetable manager actually has a real live bachelor’s degree in animation. He minored in, like, cinematography. His career as a farmer has come wildly out of left field, if you just look at his transcript. So I bet I’ll have an ally in this. And a knowledgeable one; his father was a successful commercial photographer for much of his childhood.
So anyway. Here’s hoping I can actually… do this.
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