For my next tech task...

I have to say, Animoto.com is not a happy thing to work with when you are trying to go the free route. They are so limiting! I had such visions of this book trailer and I how I wanted it to be. But I ended up having to cut about 20 of my photos out, and condense 15 text slides to 3 or 4. I had to choose one of their "backgrounds." And I was limited to their music selection since I was not at home to have selection of mine. I also had no control of the timing for each slide/text/pictures, and thus lost a lot of possibilities in use of pictures, etc. Paying would allow me to have more than 30 seconds and some alteration in speed, but I'm not sure what else.

Conclusion: I much prefer my video maker on my Mac. And as I am still rather connected to my vision of this book trailer, stay tuned. I may very well still create it.

Until then, what do you think of my first ever Book Trailer.


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This is the one I prefer the most. Remember: it is extremely limited. I went through so many versions until I was happiest this. So, I guess it is better for me to say that this is my first officially santioned Book Trailer.

On a whim, I just now decided to see how different things can end up. So, I changed the background to one I hadn't looked at and used a song I'd been debating. (This literally took me about 2 minutes to change.) And the results?


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This rendition was not bad at all, actually. I rather like it. Takes even more away from what I had in mind in the beginning, but the ending is closer.

I did it again with a new background and the song I had wanted most out of their selection, and got this:

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Again, not too bad. I actually like the background and the song together. But I don't like the jerkiness of the images--it doesn't flow. Not like water should.
But this? This was one of my former tries. To me it brought a whole different kind of meaning to The Blue Castle! (I do like that is has some of the other photos I'd tried to fit in.)


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Your thoughts?

P.S. To see what other photos I had in mind, you can see the photomosaic I also created for a different task completion. Now this site I could certainly use!!