(unrelated photo but it was taken while filming too) I am just about to finish the ten weeks class I have been taking recently with the wonderful teacher Xanthe Berkeley. If you don't know her yet despite that I mentioned her a few times (huhu) you should get over her website or her instagram right away. She is such an inspiration to me and she has been for some time. I love everything she does as well as her colourful world. Her creativity is genius, I'm always blown by her new ideas and movies. I was thrilled when I realised she offers courses and I haven't been disappointed: She is a great teacher on top of everything!I had started with the online time capsules course which takes place over the year and enabled me to start my monthly memories. The material was really great already there. Then I saw she had a faster pace course, the make films course. Ten weeks, ten challenges and despite still not having changed camera (sigh), I just couldn't wait and registered. It was indeed challenging at times, but such a great adventure and I'm almost sad it's already ending (but one might say it's not the end but only the beginning of a new creative path... who knows!). This course was absolutely fantastic! Now I'm going to show you the results, it's not always the best (especially if you have just been to Xanthe's website!) and I really have to do something with the fonts choices among other things (huhu again). It's my journey to learn and it's really fun to have these little memories to keep and watch. I hope you enjoy it too (and will see the improvements in the future!)Week 1First week was about starting up and using different angles. That week, my camera let me down and I had to use the iphone a lot but I still managed a "week-end memories". You can check them all here. Not my best one and Instagram only allowed 15s at the time, it still really nice times and I love making those small snippets:Week 2Second week was a portrait and I did one of Caroline from La Frénésie which I made a blog post about earlier. There is a longer version there, this one is again Instagram friendly:Week 3Third week was about taking a moment, using slow motion and filming yourself too. Not an easy one. Interesting since I don't really like to see myself but did it anyway:Week 4Fourth week was using wide angles and timelapse. I didn't really use wide angle in this one but planting seeds with Lily was fun anyway. I have another movie with lots of city/sky/airport timelapses but I never posted it so here is the result I shared in the end:Week 5Fifth was a breather, a week to take in all we had learnt and so I did another week-end memories movie:Week 6The sixth week was the one I dreaded the most and I was quite right: Stop motion was the most difficult thing I had to do during this course and I wasn't very pleased with the result (and my knee hurt afterwards)... But there you go, if I do it again, I'll learn more each time I suppose like Xanthe said. I hadn't even put the pictures in the right format, hence the black borders:Week 7The seventh week was about presenting an "how to" make something video using the technics we had learnt. That is probably the one I'm the happiest with. I involved the kids and we had great fun making it, especially Eliott doing the voiceover with his cute French/American accent:Week 8 The eighth week was trying to do "a day in the life" series of movies. Ideally everyday for a week or a full day from morning till evening. I thought that with my work life I wouldn't be able to make any of those and was about to stick to the week-end movies (I was in London that week-end, I could easily make two films I thought) but then I took my camera every day with me, filmed a lot and started to see things differently and was actually able to make a little movie with little scenes from each day. Here are the results (you can also see them here ):Saturday:Sunday:Monday:Tuesday:Wednesday:Thursday:Friday:Week 9The one before last. I couldn't believe it. It was about wondering if I had a series in me. Well, right now, I'm definitely going to stick to my week-end memories, that you can find here or on Instagram. I'll of course continue the monthly memories project too, and that, I will post on the blog, but you can also see them all here. The movie I submitted for that week:Week 10 The last week of the make films course! I'm glad the theme is "PLAY" because I needed it to be fun so I wouldn't get too sad about it ending and we made it fun indeed. I won't show it on this post, as we share every Mondays and it's not finished yet. But I'll be sharing it shortly here, so stay tuned!
