Bach, Stop Motion, Kazoos, oh my! Frameographer App in Action

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Guess what?  It's Bach's birthday on March 31 (1685).  And guess what we got him for his 328th birthday?  This awesome stop-motion music video of us playing the Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 with KAZOOS.

Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, i: Allegro written by J.S. Bach Performed on kazoos by Andrew & Polly Brandenburger is on Andrew & Polly's award-winning, self-produced album, "Up & At 'Em" Andrew & Polly shot this video of some Kazoobie Kazoos using a very cool iPhone app called Frameographer by Studio Neat.

To make this awesome video, we used a great iPhone app called Frameographer by Studio Neat.  With Frameographer, you can make stop-motion and timelapse videos in HD - and it's pretty easy.

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We don't have any fancy equipment, so we had to find a well-lit space and improvise our set.  We ended up using a laptop case for the background!

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We taped our portable tripod to the top of a stackastuff and got going.

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We used another Studio Neat product as well for this shoot - the Glif.  The Glif is a tripod mount for iPhone 4/4S and 5, and we'ved used it before to make some of the videos on our old YouTube channel.  Here's the Glif in action!

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With Frameographer, you "capture" frames one by one just as if you're taking a picture.

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When you're done, you can delete any where your hands are accidentally still in the frame (ahem).

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Decide what frame-rate you think Lily would prefer and then save the masterpiece to your camera roll.  (We read somewhere that dogs see at a higher frame rate than humans - is that why they're so good at catching treats in their mouths?)  Voila!

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It couldn't have been simpler and we had a LOT of fun.

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I rest my face.

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Kazoos

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There's an instrument we love Very Much - and it's the KAZOO! We had a lot of fun in San Francisco and gave some special Hohner kazoos (with Andrew & Polly stickers on them) to our friends at Laurel Hill Preschool and St. Anselm school.

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We gave out 150 kazoos, and then we ran out!  So we ordered some more - this time from Kazoobie Kazoos.  We shared those with our friends at The Cow's End.

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Do you have a kazoo?

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Happy Birthday, Mister Rogers

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Happy Birthday, Fred! 

Last June,

PBS released a touching video remix

of dialogue from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood auto-tuned into a melody by Symphony of Science.  We were so moved that we wanted to sing it, too!

 

We hope you like our version of it, and hope it's okay with Mister Rogers & John Boswell that we made it.  You can stream it on

Youtube

and

Soundcloud

, but it's not available for download.  Our friend, the incredibly talented Nicole Wietrak, made an amazing painting while listening to the song.

We both grew up on Mister Rogers, but looking back as adults we find his message all the more inspiring.  Fred McFeely Rogers innovated direct, respectful educational programming for young people and advocated passionately for our responsibility to

invest in high-quality media for children

.  Gentle, patient, compassionate, full of thought, wonder, and conviction --- on what would have been Mister Roger's 85th birthday, we'd like to share this song with you. 

“It’s good to be curious about many things. You can think about things and make believe – all you have to do is think – and they’ll grow.” – Mister Rogers

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