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February 24, 2009

MIMS "Move" - High-Speed Cameras and Time Displacement

Keith Schofield directed the MIMS "Move (If You Wanna)" hip-hop music video that used high-speed Phantom cameras to shoot the "ultra slow-motion" dance/movement sequences:

Click this link to watch MIMS "Move" in HD:

MIMS Move If You Wanna

In the above video, you'll see examples of slow-motion video scratching and, toward the end, use of the slit-scan technique (when the bodies get twisted).

On the Motionographer blog, you'll find a link to the in-depth "treatment" with animatics for the making of this video. The "Treatment" is excellent. I wish every video had a detailed guide to the story ideas and techniques used to make a video. And the animatics offer a video storyboard for different shots in the video.

Shooting Slow Motion with High-Speed Cameras

There are a number of recent examples of dance and movement being shot with high-speed video cameras:

David Michalek's "Slow Dancing." (My posts: here and here):

An excerpt from Ben Dolphin's Arising (article and video clip):

Ben Dolphin Aristing

And Tronic Studio's video commercial for Diesel's 55DSL Brand (article):

Tronic Studio - Diesel 55DSL

Slit Time and Time Displacement

Here are three examples of slit-scan photography and different approaches to time displacement and manipulation:

A clear example of slit-scan photography in this YouTube video without attribution:

The Digital Experience blog wrote a post this month about the 2001 installation "Liquid Time Series" where a participant's movements fragment time in a pre-recorded video clip. Watch video:

Liquid Time Series Installation

And in TX-Dance (2003) from TX-Transform the time and space axes are transposed to create the following effect:

You can visit Golan Levin's website to access a large-collection of "Slit-Scan Video Artworks and Research."

Posted by Doug Fox on February 24, 2009 6:15 AM



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