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