Creating movies is a good way of recording your lives, I just realized.
I was back in snowy London last March for about a week. Above is a 47 seconds movie that I compiled from the clips I took during the trip.
I will warn you that it is not meant to be anything artistic nor creative. It is just a holiday movie afterall and you probably won't find it too exciting. It does capture emotion and mood of my week, so it is still a valuable record of the trip for me personally.
It's basically just a movie collage, cutting and compiling short clips together–the technique you see everywhere on YouTube. Nothing complicated. In fact I shot all my footage using my iPhone 5. The trick is though, to edit the film down to a short length. This was always the problem I had with the movies I take; they were lengthy and I never opened my movie files after taking them and they weren't so fun to watch. Be selective, make it short, and films are great way to summarize your lovely memory.
動画には作りにはあまり興味がないのですが、旅行を「まとめる」のにすごく適しているメディアかなと思い立ちつくってみました。iPhone 5で撮った動画の面白そうなところだけを切ってつなげるだけで「旅の記憶」がひとつにまとまる。（あら簡単！）
コツは出来るだけ短くすること。長いと楽しかった旅の記録でさえ、見返す気が失せるのは、私だけではないはず。
作品ではなく、自己満足的ツールです。でも創ってしまえば、47秒で楽しかった1週間が、いつでも思い出せるというのはオイシイ。手ぶれもご愛嬌。そんなお手軽動画作り、お勧めです。
