OT: Burning Man Time Lapses

[Tremont]

http://www.vimeo.com/6636389

Footage I recently shot at Burning Man 2009. The dust made it ridiculously hard to get good time lapses - most of the stuff I shot there ended up on the cutting room floor.

(probably the last shots from me for a while as I work on some other stuff)

 

[silentscream]

As always, well done man! very cool images.

 

[Recty]

Very nice, although to be honest I dont like the ending where it just seems like straight video (was it?) and no longer time lapse. Kind of ruined the whole effect for me.

 

[Tremont]

Yeah there are a few parts including that which are actually video. I'm actually doing a quick re-edit to shorten the end sequence of the temple going down and put music in that part.

 

[IPT]

cool. cool. I LIKE the time lapse stuff.

 

[Reef Bass]

I actually liked how you varied the interval between frames to be realtime for the end. I think it punctuates the film nicely and provides a nice visual contrast for the longer interval portions.

 

[t5Nitro]

How do you speed the video up? I can't find a setting to do it anywhere on iMovie. Possible it doesn't have it.

 

[Recty]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15721613#post15721613 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by t5Nitro
How do you speed the video up? I can't find a setting to do it anywhere on iMovie. Possible it doesn't have it.

http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/switcher-hangout/87222-speed-up-video-imovie.html

 

[melev]

Another cool video creation by Ben. You're very talented at this - hopefully you can make it a career somehow. :thumbsup:

 

[lordofthereef]

Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly is "burning Man"

 

[Tremont]

"Burning Man" is an art festival where 50,000 people build and live in a temporary city in the middle of a dry lake bed in Northern Nevada. It lasts a week and culminates with a bunch of stuff being burned to the ground. People drive around in huge buses rebuilt to look like giant roosters that breath fire and are covered in pole dancing girls. I think that covers about 0.1% of what I saw there.

 

[Jacob D]

Awesome work. I was really hoping to go this year.

Was it your first time? Did you catch any flak over having a camera and being a 'spectator'?

 

[TitusvileSurfer]

I wanna GOOOOO! Wow! I've never even heard of this. Great work!!

 

[Tremont]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15737024#post15737024 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Jacob D
Awesome work. I was really hoping to go this year.

Was it your first time? Did you catch any flak over having a camera and being a 'spectator'?

It was my first time (been meaning to go for years but usually was too busy). I honestly felt pretty sheepish carrying around my camera equipment when I first got there, as it just didn't seem right to be out there taking pictures when there was so much fun to be had. However, people were incredibly accommodating and excited about the stuff I was doing. Nobody complained to me at all, just a lot of inquiries into what I was doing and people asking where they would be able to see the work. The most common response I got when trying to get my equipment setup on the art cars was "hell yeah, get on ,we will make a spot for you!". In the end, I was there for a week and only spent two days or so with my camera.

 

[truthdesigns]

Great job once again!

 

[Jacob D]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15737135#post15737135 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Tremont
It was my first time (been meaning to go for years but usually was too busy). I honestly felt pretty sheepish carrying around my camera equipment when I first got there, as it just didn't seem right to be out there taking pictures when there was so much fun to be had. However, people were incredibly accommodating and excited about the stuff I was doing. Nobody complained to me at all, just a lot of inquiries into what I was doing and people asking where they would be able to see the work. The most common response I got when trying to get my equipment setup on the art cars was "hell yeah, get on ,we will make a spot for you!". In the end, I was there for a week and only spent two days or so with my camera.

Cool. We would have been there but something came up that sort of changed all of the plans for the rest of the year. I'm looking to being part of it next year. I'm going to take a guess that you're planning to go back? Everyone I've talked to that has done it has said you can't go only once... you keep going back to try and soak it all in but it's a vicious cycle

 

[aquariumclown]

Awesome, I've missed bm 2 years in a row now. Always love to see what I missed.

 

[Tremont]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15741950#post15741950 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Jacob D
I'm going to take a guess that you're planning to go back?

I'm definitely going next year, and I'm probably going to bring some more specialized toys (like boom mounted cameras for getting art cars in the foreground when riding around on them for time lapses).