Me designing a website in time lapse
This was an interesting little experiment for me. It was an idea I got from filming myself take a motorcycle apart and playing it at 3x normal speed.
I found CamStudio which very effectively recorded all my on-screen movements, and in Movie Maker (I’m a web designer, not a video guru), I stitched it to some video from my Sony Handycam. Threw in some nice music and put some titles and credits in.
Here’s the result.
14/11/2008 at 6:55 pm Permalink
what program are you using to mind map?
14/11/2008 at 7:40 pm Permalink
Nice video. What mind mapping application did you use?
14/11/2008 at 9:16 pm Permalink
This is great!
What’s that 1st piece of software you’re using? (for the IA)
14/11/2008 at 9:56 pm Permalink
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing!
15/11/2008 at 9:19 am Permalink
Hey everyone, thanks for the nice comments.
The mindmapping software is called Freemind – http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
15/11/2008 at 2:46 pm Permalink
This is awesome. What I really want to know is did you have to cut out a lot of parts when capturing all your movements? Like when I’m working I will do a little, check an email, do a little more, answer an IM. Do some more, check Twitter. Did you do that or were you totally focused when working on this?
15/11/2008 at 8:03 pm Permalink
Hey Brad, yeah I normally operate like you mention. For this exercise however I did it in one bash. It was really done balls to the wall. Otherwise the file size of the video is huge!
Looking at the design (I did this a while ago and only published recently) it’s also a bit unrefined and hastily done. Embarrasing really
Regardless I still follow a similar process. Sometimes the paper doesn’t get involved, but most of the time it does.
16/11/2008 at 6:18 pm Permalink
Its great to see how you work the magic. Amazing.
17/11/2008 at 5:24 am Permalink
Great work, is there a link to the final comp you produced?
Thanks.
17/11/2008 at 9:23 am Permalink
Hi Max, not at present. No reason for me not to I guess. Expect an edit some time soon.
19/11/2008 at 11:15 pm Permalink
Excellent workflow in Fireworks, i didnt notice layers-menu
20/11/2008 at 10:17 am Permalink
Thanks Mikko. Yeah, oddly enough, in Fireworks I tend to work blind to a degree. I’ll always clean it up when passing it on to a slicer dicer, but while designing, I tend to use CTRL+UP and CTRL+DOWN to arrange layers. SHIFT+CTRL+UP brings to front, and SHIFT+CTRL+DOWN sends to the back. I can work hella faster that way.