That was sweet ross! I liked how you combined the long exposure “light” words and your usual time lapse, it looked awesome. Keep up the good work.
Death Cab for Cutie’s Little Bribes
Press release from Atlantic Records
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Music: Little Bribes by Death Cab for Cutie
BACKGROUND
(Shot on a Canon 5D Mark II)
For this video, I pulled out every time lapse, stop motion and live action camera trick that I could think of. It took me about 2 weeks. The goal was to create a fresh, new direction to take my work to. The Eclectic Series has fared well, but that was all in the past. It’s time to look ahead. Live action narrative is where I would truly like to be producing content, but on the internet, it’s just too difficult to stand out from the pack making movies with a video camera. Moreover, time lapse and tilt-shift (shot with a still camera) are becoming more and more prevalent on the internet. Therefore I spent weeks and weeks to come up with a new, original idea and landed on this concept.
TECHNIQUE
Production of this video was fairly simple. I looked around the house for things that could spell out words and then photographed them. Most of the time I would incorporate some kind of motion into the shot to keep it interesting. However, the song has 211 different words in it and I quickly ran out of ideas. This is where things became difficult.
To keep myself sane, I printed out the lyrics and timed each word to the number of frames that I needed to take. The “accents” over each word signified that the word was completed.
Location wise, almost everything was shot in the LA area. A few shots came from my parent’s house in San Jose, but that’s it. For this one I didn’t have to travel all over the country to get unique shots. I just had to create the unique shots.
truly enjoyable
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