Yes, I know.  This is not an easy-to-do home movie.

But you can achieve a really fun effect by doing something that is easy to do.

Draw pictures with one letter of the alphabet per drawing- or have your kids draw draw them.  Then using your camcorder on a tripod, shoot the pictures.  They are now “art cards” and this is how they used to actually put graphics on screen in the original days of broadcasting.

It’s cool, it’s retro.  Best of all, you could do it, too.

How I made Star Wars ABC’s:

I made separate graphic files for each letter of the alphabet in Adobe Photoshop.  then, I animated them inside Adobe After Effects.  This is expensive software, but as a professional, I am very accustomed to using them.

Then I edited the After Effects animation with the live footage of my son, Ryan.