As if Facebook wasn’t theatrical enough already, design outfit Definition6 have collaborated with Mark Zuckerberg’s social platform to create an app which morphs your Timeline into a cinematic-esque movie.
Before I digress into a rant about the social-networking attention-seekers though, the app – aptly named TimelineMovieMaker – is actually pretty darn good.
Introduced at the f8 conference, Timeline was one of the more significant new features implemented into the world’s number one social networking site. Competition from the likes of Google+ saw Facebook push out arguably the largest upgrade in its history, and the response from users has been positive hitherto, with a fast-approaching milestone of a billion active users.
Timeline sought to shake the "here an now" ideal prevalent in many of the popular social hunts, allowing users to create a life story, and offer some structure to profile pages in amongst the vast array of in-and-outgoing chit-chat.
TimelineMovieMaker, whilst not everybody’s proverbial cup of tea, allows you to add special effects and music in an animated timeline. For purpose of clarity, imagine a PowerPoint presentation with your pictures daily blurbs included – that’s pretty much what you’ll be getting with this app.
The movies take a matter of minutes to compile, and once you’ve finished playing director, you’ll probably want – in true Facebook fashion – to share it with your friends, which is is as simple sharing a link.
Try it for yourself, and once you’ve watched an abridged version of your life thus far, we’re pretty sure you’re going to want to edit a few things to reach that 6+ IMDB rating – a benchmark most would class as ‘watchable’.
Once you’re happy with your Timeline movie, you can share it to Facebook and let friends have a look:
While this is a dead-simple app that explains itself, it is interesting that this is an official Facebook product. Of course, with the word “Timeline” in the domain name, it would have to be. Whether Definition6 did all of the heavy creative lifting or not, this has to be one of the uses of Timeline Facebook thought about when it first released the product.
I’ll admit that seeing all of my Facebook activity in video form makes me want to fill in some of the gaps to make for a better “movie”. While my life isn’t interesting enough to hit the big screen, I do get a kick out of seeing it on the small one.
How do you get started? Follow this link, hit the ‘Make Your Movie’ button, and you’re good to go. You’ll obviously have to log in and allow permissions, but after that, it’s relatively straightforward, and you’ll soon find your feet in the directors’ lounge!
Hey, feel free to share your life stories via our Facebook fan page – we’d love to see them!
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