Moving Images
Eadweard MuybridgeMr Muybridge was the man who proved how a horse moved, by using photography. Up until then, people thought horses ran with their legs straight out in front of them. So Eadweard used a zoopraxiscope,a method of capturing a sequence of photos taken in the right order. Which essentially was the start of film. He proved that horses had a small amount of time when all of their legs are of the ground, which proves his theory correct. This showed what the naked eye couldn't.
He experimented with the camera and pushed it to the limits(another example of this is on my blog), and became an extremely well known, amazing photographer. This image shows 20 snap shots of how a horse moves, he used 20 trip wires, each one setting of one blank camera. This insured he correctly captured just how the horse moved. |
GIF'sAn animated gif is something that plays a selection of images and repeats it. There are now loads of apps to help us make them. We used Mopho, which allows you to take to photos and then plays them in repeat. You can also take as many as you want which is called "story" mode.The website gifmelter allows you to take the URL of an animated GIF and distort it in unusual ways. I have posted some examples below of screengrabs taken from the site of the melted version of the GIF opposite.
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Stop motion and Time lapse
Stop motion is an animation method where a stationary object is photographed repeatedly photographed to make it seem like it's an animate object. A famous example of this is Wallis and Gromit, the figures are moved into a position and taken, then moved into another position and taken. It's very time consuming, it actually took a year to take 20 minuets of fotage.
Against the GrainThis is a stop-motion film using only pencils, yet the outcome is spectacular. The best feature of this is the fact that the images represent the lyrics in the song and aren't just random colours and shapes.
It also shows how much you can do with not much, as long as you have a good idea you can make almost anything using stop-motion. I reckon the artist used pencils to make it more abstract and seem less real... |
Hudson - Against The Grain from Dropbear on Vimeo. |
Time lapses are similar but have a main difference: the spaces are larger between the pictures and they are sped up, making time pass a lot faster than it does. Most nature programs use it, for example on flowers opening or clouds moving over a landscape.
Iceland, Eyjafjajokull.The reason I like this time lapse is because of the mood it creates, it makes everything else seem insignificant compared to the power of the volcano.
The photographer had to set up cameras all around the mountains to catch the images and check each one. All the cameras would have been on a tripod, it's crucial that the cameras stay in the same place in both time lapses and stop-motion films. |
Still LifeThis is a time lapse by Sam Taylor-Wood, instead of showing something happy or pretty it shows a dark message.
I think the film represents how everything must come to an end, no matter how perfect or ever-lasting it seems. The lighting is interesting as it would usually be associated with something beautiful, however Taylor-Wood has turned the tables by using it on something quite horrible to watch but yet it captures the audience. |
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