In this technique, we capture any phenomenon on camera at regular intervals. When they are seen in motion they appear to speed up the action.
For instance, if we were to point the camera at moving clouds and we took single images every one second then when the images are collated in a video the clouds will appear to move at a discernible pace. We can try this with clouds, with flowers blooming, with traffic etc.
The intervals for capturing images will vary according to the moving object. A flower takes much longer to bloom whereas traffic moves very fast. When we wish to capture images for a flower blooming, we need to know how long the flower takes to bloom. We also need to know how long we want the animation to be. So if the flower takes three hours to bloom, and we want our animation to be fifteen seconds long then we need to capture an image every twelve minutes. But if we want to capture fast moving traffic we will need to capture an image every second. Time-lapse is often used in combination with pixilation with interesting results.
Examples of these can be found in the gallery section.
Equipment Required:
- Tripod
- Digital Camera with minimum 2GB memory card
- Stopwatch
- Laptop or Desktop
- Firewire cable/data transfer cable
- Video/Image editing software (Movie maker, Adobe Premiere)
- Remote for capturing images (optional)
Assignment 1:
Directions:
• Choose the activity or phenomenon you wish to capture.
• Decide how long you wish your animation to be.
• Based on the activity decide the intervals at which you will capture the image.
• Set your camera to manual white balance, manual exposure and image format as jpeg.
• If not comfortable you could try auto settings but it is preferable to use manual settings for better results.
• Mount the camera onto the tripod and ensure it does not move.
• Using the stopwatch capture the images at the decided intervals.
• Image resolution needs to be 720 X 540 or higher but not bigger than 1024 X768 at 72dpi.
• After the shoot is over, download images to your laptop/desktop.
• Edit the images in Photoshop if necessary (optional).
• Assemble the images in the Video/Image editing software.
Follow this link for more info:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw53eAD8FrE&feature=related
• Add music or sound effects to complete your film.
• For a trial assemble the images from the candle folder and watch it burn.
