can also watch this on: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhso8w_tree-time_shortfilms
or the longer version: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhso9o_tree-time-long_school
I have picked time-lapse photography for my FMP as it really interests me. I love the way that it shows something that would normally have a slow state-of-change and with the simple technique of speeding up shows it in a complete different way that I find truly fascinating. I wanted to show the sun set in the evening which would normally take hours so by making the process of viewing faster you get to see things in a way you would not see normally. If you was to watch the sun set in real-time like I did you would probably not see any change but viewing it speed up like this it becomes interesting.
I made this short time-lapse of the three and sky by having a stationary camera taking a single photograph every 30 seconds (using a build in setting on the camera). I left it taking photos until the cell ran up which was about 3 hours after stating. After I have all the 100s of stills I compressed them into a Quick Time movie using Final Cut Pro which made the time lapsing movie you can see here.
Other ideas I have in mind to time-lapse are:
a town center, clouds moving, water movment, ice melting, stop-motion, a plant growing, drawing a image, flower dieing and a sun-rise.
I have been experimenting with Finalcut today, using the ink footage i got, I have been playing around with it adding effects and overlayer and editing it in diffrent ways. My faverate one is rainbow one.
Using the footage from my first ink film I have reedited to create a diffrent look. I used idffrent layering ways and inverted the colours as well as speeding up and slowing down the footage.
I have been trying to make a diffrent type of film today, insted of filming from one or from the side I have filmed from the bottom by using see-through plastic and having the camera under it. I slowly pored ink over the top. Ones the footage was on final cut I over layed the diffrent inks.
I have been doing a arange of candle time-lapes in ther morning to evning. I had to stay home as it was unsafe to leave it burning on its own. One thing that went wroung with this was that i was un able to do anything else in the time. The other thing was the cell died before the candle was compleaty gone. Having these issuse i am still pleased with the outcome.
