Calendars to the Past

bbq wiz wrote on 10/12/2006, 2:33 PM
My oldest son will be having his Eagle Court of Honor in early November. Part of his ceremony he has asked I put together a short video of some his accomplishments in Scouting and with the Marching Band he belongs to.

He has also asked I "go back" in time, to when he was born. Paul was premature by 5 weeks and then had two major surgeries shortly after being born. He spent the first 4 months of his life in Denver's Children Hospital and has mild Cebreal Palsy. He was a "miracle baby" and he has gone through many challenges and he has asked me to tell the story of how far he has come since then!

My idea was to start with a photo I took of him with his Eagle Scout Certificate that I photoshopped onto a Eagle that has the red, white and blue of our flag going through it. My narrative would then talk about going back to the beginning, to when Paul was born.

What I am looking for is a way to have a monthly calendar "flip back" in time to July of 1988.

Do any of you know how I might do something like this to transition from the current time to video we have when Paul was in Children's Hospital?

Thanks in advance,

Dad
BBQ Wiz

Comments

vicmilt wrote on 10/12/2006, 2:44 PM
What I would try ( no I've never actually done that exact effect ) is to assemble your timely photos in the order you want them, and then page wipe them together (Transitions ) - don't worry about how fast the scene is playing, but just make them long enough to get the wipes into place - Wipe - Wipe - Wipe, etc.

then, I'd render the completed track to a new track called, "Early wipes - 1"
Then I'd open that rendered track in a new project and apply a velocity envelope to the pre-rendered track. Adjust speed to your liking.

v
bbq wiz wrote on 10/12/2006, 2:50 PM
May not of been clear.

I'm looking to have a monthly calendar "flip" back in months to years very quicky back to July 1988.
farss wrote on 10/12/2006, 3:07 PM
The basis of Victors idea will still work.

Create calendar pages in PS or any graphics package. Drop on T/L with page curls between them, render out (I'd suggest doing this in progressive) and then use a velocity envelope to control speed.

Or you could record 12 hours of a clock using Vidcap and a camera. Or SCLive's interval recording at 1fps and speed up and reverse the clock footage.

Bob.
winrockpost wrote on 10/12/2006, 3:12 PM
You can create them in photoshop or a similar application , of course if you have a bunch of old calendars you can scan or shoot them. Also probably calendar sites on the web . Once you have them you got the ole cheesy pagepeel in vegas, if doing in vegas I would rather kinda float them back iin space ,with a cloudy foggy time travel kinda background instead of using page peel.
good luck,, and have plenty of tissues close by,, you are gonna need boxes and boxes by the time you finish.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 10/12/2006, 7:40 PM
> My oldest son will be having his Eagle Court of Honor in early November.

First, I just wanna just say CONGRATULATIONS to your son and to you. As a former scout leader myself, I know what the boys go through to earn the rank of Eagle Scout and since only 4% of all scouts reach the rank of Eagle; he is in the 96% percentile in the country! Something you should be very proud of as his father.

As for the video, all good ideas here. I would get the image of a generic calendar month. You can use the Calendar template in Word to make one or find one on the web. Then blur that so it’s not so obvious which month it is and superimpose on top of it the year in big clear numbers across it (so the eye focuses on the year and gets the idea that it’s a calendar). Create one for each year you want to mark. Then use the page peel as Vic suggested in between the groups of pictures for that year. Keep it simple just to get the idea across.

~jr
TomE wrote on 10/12/2006, 8:45 PM
"My oldest son will be having his Eagle Court of Honor in early November"

Congratulations!

I shot the Eagle Court of Honor Ceremony for my friend's son in August. He had received letters of congratulations from several former presidents and from prominent sports figures too. I scanned these with his certificate and did a montage using pan/crop and left some background in of a wooden carved eagle and the US Flag. Coupled with some of the 50 dollar's worth of free twisted tracks music I got it came off pretty cool. They had a photo album display showing his scouting days and a little of his earlier pictures. But the scouting images were the most popular since only the other scouts were really fully aware of all he had accomplished.

TomE
birdcat wrote on 10/13/2006, 9:40 AM
Tom -

Big Time Congrats to your son - I too was a scout leader for many years - I don't know if you need them but I have a selection of Scouting related fonts (Logger, Wood Plank and Wood Badge) which I have put into a zip file that you are more than welcome to have (I was given them at a Cub Scout Leaders Pow-Wow and was told they were public domain). Please email me off-list and I will give you the URL for them.

Bruce