You kidding? We made stop motion Lego videos when we were 8 to 10 on tape, without editing equipment. We'd just press start and pause on the camcorder as quick as possible. It was tricky because the camcorder would stop the tape every three minutes and there would then be a second of static, so we had to be quick. I remember this one time we synced up the credits to Bolt Thrower's unleashed upon mankind by manually stopping the camcorder every two bars, re- queue the CD, and shoot another two bars, each time within three minutes. There was this other great scene where we got a Punisher action figure to scramble away from a bear. The reptile rodeo? Classic. Besides literally having to have a still shot for all the dialogue, we could have done all this stuff.
The stuff kids can do with computers these days is incredible. I'm sure we could have made something at least this awesome with the technology, except we'd probably use more metal music. So people, BELIEVE!
Totally Gorilla. I did a stop motion in school and had the same problems with the camera auto-stopping and the motionless talking scenes haha. Having a remote for the camera was important too. 12 year olds could totally do this.
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