Creative ideas needed ...

ChristerTX wrote on 6/16/2006, 10:59 AM
I'm making a movie with scanned pictures that represent two persons over time.
This is for a couple that has their wedding anniversary.
The main objective is to show scanned photos that represent these people over the last 20 years. This will be done to one song on the sound track, approximately 5 minutes long in total.

Any creative ideas out there for how I would represent this, rather than just have one picture appear after the other?
Effects, backgrounds ? Thinking about some sort of scrap book theme ...

Any ideas out there?

Comments

Doyle wrote on 6/16/2006, 12:06 PM
Finished one kind of like what you are doing with exception I had some old movies that I put in along with the photos making it about an hour long. I of course added music to "fit" the circumstance and mood and added some fly in's as to the event, etc. The thing that I think really helped was I had my wife and her sister just chat about who this was and what, etc. This I think added a real personal touch and let everyone now and in the future know who this person was. I purchased a decent microphone and let them view a few pictures ahead and then rewound so they argueing over who this was, etc.
jimmyz wrote on 6/16/2006, 12:39 PM

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5068578727095453842

this is a link to an anniversary video I did for my parents recently.
Maybe some things to help.
studioLord wrote on 6/16/2006, 9:38 PM
I have done a few still projects and I have found that it adds a lot to change with the beat... use the picture in picture type of set up to show the changes a person has gone through... if they are in the same place at different times it helps to transition them as a "morph" if you can and show the "aging" process with as soft an edge on the older shot.
Having scenery in the shot helps as well... backrounds under neath just slightly out of focus but still recognizable...(they would actually be on a track above the focussed shot with the opacity faded out but they would look like they were underneath)
Flowers mean a lot on anniversaries.... there vare a lot of great flowers in Microsoft Publisher..... clipart pictures....
Have a ball.... stills are fun...
John