Lights… Camera… Make! Tips for Getting Started on YouTube
These standout creators offer advice for putting your projects on YouTube.
Video Making
Introduction To Color Grading For Makers
Get that color looking fantastic through your entire video with some color grading. Read on to learn how to get started.
How-To: 3 Most Popular DIY GoPro Projects
Check out the three most popular GoPro project tutorials according to DIYGoPro.com. Learn how to make these three rigs with step-by-step video tutorials, instructions, and part lists.
Robot Puppet Party at Maker Faire
The Hello World Program would like to invite you to a Robot Puppet Party at the Maker Faire Bay Area next month. Hello World has been running for about a year, building a library of video tutorials on a variety of open source tech topics, narrated by handmade puppets. Guido the Python teaches the Python programming language, of course, while the robot Unique ID discusses robotics, circuitry and the basics of object-oriented programming. Currently under construction is a new fox puppet who will be in charge of HTML tutorials.
Making Movies with Kids
Anyone who has kids will, at one time or another, point a video camera (or smartphone) at them and make a little home movie. But how about getting kids involved in making movies? Bianca Giaever doesn’t have kids, but the young filmmaker has created a great short film called “The Scared is Scared,” based on a story invented by a six-year-old boy named Asa. Bianca’s questions and Asa’s often flip-flopping, cute-as-can-be answers form the narration of the movie. Bianca takes Asa’s imaginative story and brings it to life as he tells it. It’s clever, funny, and poignant. She offers advice on how to go about making a movie with kids.
How-To: Fretboard “Shredcam”
Fran Blanche is a self-described “corset maker, pedal designer, engineer, artist, musician, occasional radio DJ, subpar singer, and full time goofball” from Philadelphia who has, at least in the not-too-distant past, run a bespoke guitar FX business called Frantone. So much win.
Which Camera Should You Use For Your Maker Project?
Blair Neal wrote an exhaustive Guide to Camera Types for Interactive Installations where he lays down various categories of cameras–everything from webcams to IR cameras to Kinects–and comments on their utility for different types of art installations, though I could totally see it being helpful for maker projects as well. [via Golan Levin]
