Unique Scrapbooking: Create Video Scrapbooks

For how popular scrapbooking is, digital scrapbooking is only beginning to catch on. It's a unique and exciting advancement in scrapbooking! Not every scrapbooking program will let you embed videos, but I've found a few that can.

Stay mindful of the fact that videos may just be a sequence of images flashed one after the other very quickly, but when it comes to scrapbooking, video and images are used in very different ways. You can't just plaster videos all over the way you might do with photos, because they must be viewed one at a time. Mixing photos with a video now and then is a good way to establish an interesting but not overwhelming level of video content.

There are two kinds of videos to use in your digital scrapbook. Ambient videos sit somewhere in the background, perhaps providing an interesting or relevant audio effect and something that doesn't distract the eye, a video without much action or movement. The other type of video is one that is meant to be the main focus, one that the reader's eyes are supposed to remain on for a little while.

Where to place the video on the page depends on these classifications. A video serving an ambient purpose could be concentrated to one side, or in the middle. The readers eyes will be drawn to the middle, so other aspect of design must be used to accomodate for this. A Focus video should be somewhere easily visible, perhaps with other elements suggesting motion in that direction.

You can angle videos at interesting angles, like pictures, so that they aren't just basking in orthogonality. Too much tilt is distracting and difficult to view though! Try gentle slopes, 10-20 degrees, and see how it affects your presentation.