Movies now on Police Jones

The Police Jones website now features a movie.  This has been something lacking ever since Police Jones went live.  The technology and technical know how of the team have finally made it happen.  I helped construct the set.  My Girl and I pushed the button and Buddy Boy did everything else.  I must say he has the basic ideas down, but we do need to work on the execution.  It was a lot of fun.  Check it out.

The low tech how to.  We set my regular little camera on a stack of books to take the pictures.  A tripod and camera with a remote would make it easier to take pictures without moving the camera but weren't necessary for what we were doing.  We snapped whenever Buddy Boy told me he was ready.  I then resized the photos using Gimp to make the files smaller so that the software could handle them all.  This took awhile.  If anyone has a suggestion on how to resize a bunch of photos a quick and easy way I'd be glad to hear about it.  We then uploaded all 192 photos to MonkeyJam, some free stop motion software I found.  I set the frames per second rather low so the end result is rather jerky, but it makes the movie last a little longer and you can see what is happening a little better.  So snap some photos and have some fun!