2009 Halloween Class Video

This is a Halloween video trick I did for my Nature of Math class at Biola University, October 28, 2009. It was another experiment in video editing and mixing video with live action. UPDATE: NOV 1, 2009 Thanks for all the compliments. I appreciate it. All this attention was quite a surprise – I mainly posted the video for the students who weren’t in class that day, and so my students could pass it on to a few friends. After the first version started getting a bunch of hits, I wished I had spent a little time cleaning up the audio, so I posted “Version 2,” which is pretty much the same, but my voice turned up a bit. I’ve read a bunch of comments, and I have a few general responses: Math: No, I wasn’t actually trying to teach anything with the video – it was just for fun. This was the last 5 minutes of a 75 minute class – I actually taught real math for the first 70 minutes. And yes, I love teaching this class, and I try to keep it lively by doing little fun things like this once in a while. Software/Camera: I used Pinnacle Studio Ultimate, version 12.1 – the “picture-in-picture” feature for the special effects. I filmed it with a simple Panasonic PV-GS35 MiniDV camcorder. Idea/Time: I did this last semester as an April Fool’s joke. New class, new year, I decided to try it again, with a few more twists. It took me about 45 minutes to film the video, maybe 2 hours to edit and refine it, then I practiced the interaction with the video a couple times. Class: This was filmed …