By leelefever on March 10, 2009 - 9:13am
This video captures the raw footage from the shooting of "Computer Hardware in Plain English. Video shoots like this usually take 4-6 hours.
Music: Thanks to Deff Syndicate for licensing the song "Hip-Hop-1" with a Creative Commons Attribution license.
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What fuN!
It is amazing and wonderful for this "behind the scenes" peek. Have you calculated the average number of moves per minute?
Frames
Hi Nancy! Great to hear from you. You know, I've thought about doing that, but we haven't yet. Good idea though!
Thanks for sharing the
Thanks for sharing the "making of a video" video. Love what you do.
You Rock!!
I love your talent. Thanks for sharing how you did this. Makes it fun to see how you build upon each frame. LOVE IT!! You da team!!!
Great Videos
Hello just want to say that you guys produce some really cool video's especially the "computer hardware on plain English video" keep it up guys.
WOW!!
I love your videos and use them in classroom all the time. This was amazing and I can not wait to show my students how complex, but exciting the creation process is, from this perspective.
Thank you so much for sharing!
Great Stuff!
Lee, you do amazing work! You are a maestro of stop animation video!
Very Interesting!
I watched the original video in February and it is really very interesting to see the behind the scenes footage of this.
I own a work at home website and several blogs with video. People sometimes don't realize what goes on behind the scenes.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks for sharing!
Love this - almost more fun than watching the edited version!
Great to See
I really enjoy your videos, and they've been a hit with my students too. Thanks for the look "behind the curtain."
Thanks!
You continue to entertain me and amaze me with your videos! Keep it coming! Truly unique!
Very cool video. I always
Very cool video. I always love behind the scenes info.
Great Video!
Wow, seeing behind the scenes is very cool!
I appreciate all the videos you do here! Keep 'em coming!
Great Effort
I am surprised to see th effort required to creat a 5 mins video. Thanks for sharing the uncut version.
Would like to see more videos in future.
All the best.
Really rocking
Great video, shows how much of work is involved beyond those cool videos. Lee Kudos to your talent, innovations and hard work.
Nice
Once again nice video
uncut video...
Awesome! Many thanx for sharing this with us Lee.
really kehwl to see the amount of detail you folks put into these great videos. Keep it up! (I know you will :-)
Fun Stuff!
It's always fun to get to see how the things you enjoy are made. Thanks for sharing!
AMAZING, as usual!
Well, done, and thanks for sharing!
Let me show you my only production, commoncraft inspired, made as a 60th birthday present for my father: "His bio in plain spanish (sorry for the spanish)": http://www.vimeo.com/2304726.
Jonas's homage to Common Craft and his father's 60th
Jonas, you must not apologize for the Spanish! I just watched your vimeo and it is moving and lovely. You are left-handed. Watch Computer Hardware in Plain English again. See? Left-handed. It's Lee. He just told me so.
Awesome!
Hi Jonás!
I'm sorry I missed this before. I'm so happy that we could inspire the video for your father's birthday. It makes me want to make one for my family!
Cool!
Cool!
It's cool
It's the first time I visit here and it's a cool video.
Very cool
Thanks for sharing. Love all of your work! Thanks for the inspiration!
Well Done
That's a lot of work, I admire your patience.
Awesome Work!
I've tried in the past to make a few stop motion videos, but I always lose the patience and never have actually finished one! Props to you for making it all the way through without quitting and for making it have length and quality! Great job again! It's really inspiring!
thank you
I liked the video very much
thanks
GREAT Work
Really appreciate work, let me know is there any other video like these, interested to see some other video similar this.
fantastic
another wonderful video... my students love them... keep them coming...
Really cool
A big thumbs up on this video, seeing the video was an amazing experience. Will love to watch your videos at the top.
Wow I've got to applaud you
Wow I've got to applaud you on this. I never realized how much work went into these videos. I know alot of work was put in to them, I just never knew it was like THAT. Keep up the great work.
Time Lapse Rocks
I used to do a bit of time lapse videography back in college, so I understand the patience and skill you need. IMHO, CGI ain't got nothin' on this...
Well done and keep it up!
I love behind the scenes. It
I love behind the scenes. It always make me look at the whole thing completely different. Great video, thanks.
You Rock!!!
Cool video definitely 2 thumbs up. And thanks a lot for sharing it to us.
common craft rules!
This is such an awesome video! Such skill and patience is inspiring... hats off! Thank you for sharing this great work.. you rule!
Worth the watch
Such work shows some great hidden talent.. appreciate for sharing love the video and he effort that went into the making.
Lots of time for sure
That's an awesome video! 4-6 hours for the 2 minute end result sure seems like a lot, but the work is worth it as it's entertaining and educational.
inspiring
I am an instructional designer and this beats my most innovative and creative training intervention by a million, zillion miles.
Thanks for sharing.
simply love it
This is the most amazing work of piece that i have seen in recent times, very informational and intriguing. thanks a lot for sharing and kudos for your effort
Wow, wonderful. I wish I
Wow, wonderful. I wish I could haver such a talent. Anyway, everybody is talented in one way or the other :)) Best regards, Tom
Wow
You look at your videos and think... "Nice video's.", but one doesn't realize the amount of work that goes into the making of them.
Very informative and fun to watch.
Keep up the good work.
Great Stuff!
It's hard work and you would need to be good at it or it would show.
Well Done!
Stating it is good will be
Stating it is good will be an understatement, it is a superb and quick piece of video. This is an amazing video and its quickness is worth appreciation
How Times Have Changed
Great piece of work. I may be an "old fart" amongst you all, but I've been involved with video production since 1981 (1" master videotape, chromekey, etc.). The tools available now on most desktop computers far, far exceed the literally millions of dollars of production equipment in a typical 1981 video production studio. Your work is the perfect example of how far technology has come. Never mind that video being expensive back in the day. It wouldn't have been even POSSIBLE back in the day. Outstanding.
-Logan
I loved it ... I want to see
I loved it ... I want to see more.
Very educational.... What a
Very educational.... What a great approach to teaching! The combination of hip hop music with a lesson in the making of stop animation videos definitely gets the message through to kids, and adults who are still kids at heart. Keep the videos coming, you have a real gift.
Great to see one of the videos in the making.
I've watched a number of the Common Craft videos and I think they are great little pieces of stop-motion - very simple and of course very informative. The first one I saw was the now infamous 'Twitter in Plain English', but I've routed around your site to watch a few more. I'm going to point my parents at a few as they may help with their technophobia! I'm glad you put this video up to give us a bit more of an insight into 'the making of...'. Very cool.
Its a really innovative
Its a really innovative video.A lot of work and time must have been spent behind the making of this video.
Thumbs up to you buddy!
Thanks,