Supporting Research

The inspiration that I had for the idea in making this video, was partly from the song itself. The song gave me invisions of fast moving objects, but also serine landscapes. I knew that it would not be possible to replicate fast moving material in a convetional sense, which brought to mind time lapse photography. From this point I felt that I had stumbled onto a brilliant idea, even though I had found alot of the footage to seem very slow moving at the majority of the time, I believe that if edited correctly it can come together nicely and be very successful. Now that I had a workable theme, I looked at some existing work for time lapse imagery, and find out if it was at all possible to do with our limited hardware and software that was available to us. I found several films that worked in time lapse, and I found them to be exactly what I required, because it helped me get a perspective on camera angles, distances from the objects, and what type of scenery to look out for. one of the pieces of material that I had gathered, was called Vermillion. This is a music video created by slipknot, and it showed time lapse working with the background, but put focus on an individual within the video, moving at a normal speed. To me, this concept seemed very different, to the other material that was collected. From here it gave me the idea of putting focus onto a character within the video. From this idea, it spouted into recording several shots of an individual from different angles, on a greenscreen canvas, then overlaying the result againsed the time lapsed footage. The differenece being, that there would be multiple shots of the individual all appearing at once. I have included Video footage of my influences within the project folder. We also come up with the idea of prolonging the shutter speed on the cameras, to give a blured effect. This actually worked really well in that it gave off a unique lighting effect as light passed by the lense. This meant that time lapsing for hours and hours could potentially be avoided. The only hardware limitations were the lack of long recordable tapes, which meant that we had to swap the tapes every hour or so. But because we were working with time lapse filming, this wasnt a problem atall.