Truly. Tell me about it, for a grade.

And then, tell me about it, for next year.

Looks like Sequence might be worth the $35 to use in post production if a really good time lapse were key to something you were making for a client.

Might need it some day.

Tell me.

Gizmodo has details.

There is no tilt-shift filter for iMovie, but there’s an iPhone app.

Reminder of tools/skills you can/should/might use:

• interviews with cutaways to voiceover (required)
• ID banners for interviewees (required)
• voiceover(s) (required)
• consistent (or intentionally inconsistent) transition vocabulary (required)
• audio normalized (required)
• output to mp4, HD (required)
• titles (required)
• credits (required)
• interesting variety of shots (required)
• interesting length of clips (long takes: very rare) (required)
• slider shots
• dolly/tracking shots
• handheld shots
• multiple shots anticipating use during voiceovers
• rule of thirds for framing
• controlled depth-of-field
• montage
• time-lapse shots (beginning? ending?)
• establishing shot, then visual element enters frame
• sound effect added to unify mini-montage, perhaps behind voiceover (e.g., birds twittering)
• non-diegetic music added
• overlapping sound (esp, maybe from/to blackouts)
• color correction
• color desaturation
• slo-mo/”fast forward”
• non-diegetic sound
• conscious story arc
• transcription of off-screen interviewer questions
• still photos, Ken Burns-ed
• post-production pans/zooms/crops

Interesting interactive article in the New York Times comparing the editing of five trailers, Silver Linings Playbook, Lincoln, Amour, Argo, Beasts of the Southern Wild.