So, what does one do with the whistles and bells that come with these digital cameras? All cameras seem to have this ''movie mode''. I think you either decide to concentrate your interest on taking photos or making movies. If you set your sights on the latter, you buy a movie camera – it’s the right tool for the job. But like many excited, new digital camera owners, I tried out the mode on its first outing – I filmed my wife trying to concentrate on her magazine and getting very irritatable at my antics, a scene probably duplicated in households all over the western world - but after that initial experiment I put the feature in the mental folder labelled ''gimmicks''.
Then I came across Debbie Moorhouse's movelets. In Debbie's words;
''Movement is the key''.Debbie's movelets can be viewed on her website, Alternative Species. Look out for her From The Bus which, for me, is particularly inspiring.
''Although the term "movelets" hints at the idea of a short movie, it is primarily intended to draw attention to the principal feature of the movelets, which is this. They are little films of things that move. Move-lets''.
Move-lets?! Yes, they're not supposed to be movies.
Movelet (n) ;shadow theatre
1. An image taken in the regular manner of a point-and-shoot photo, but with the video mode.
2. An whimsical experiment in utilising one of the more inadequate whistles and bells that come with digital point-and-shoot cameras.
3. A little picture of things that move, and
4. Just a bit of fun.
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