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Diplo- 'Florida'
by benjamin on Apr 3, 2008
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The music video is a chase between a man and a woman. As they rhythmically chase through a forest they cascade light all around them.

The promo is really born out of a technique I had been experimenting with for a while. It is essentially pixilation mixed with timed exposure. The technique really helped in creating the slightly surreal fantasy world created in Rainbow Hunters.

The whole film is shot on a Nikon D80 digital SLR shooting around 3000 frames.

Dir: Ben Lister
Prod: Warren Haughey
D.o.p: Stuart Mills

Male Dancer: Mike Gilroy
Female Dancer: Naomi Haworth

Here is a high res version and some more info- http://www.antidoteproductions.net/rainbow_hunters.html

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CarolineB's picture

odd, looks good, finbar mallon makes similar ish effects and I like them too
nice music

matei-alexandru mocanu's picture

i thought this was an official video for diplo's 'florida'
nice use of time lapse/exposure, good work.

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visual-hybrid's picture

stunning imagery..
how did you get the tracking so smooth?
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kplusme's picture

sweet. the music is nice too

peterbunzl's picture

Wow that looks great, beautiful colors.
How do you do the tracking?
Just moving the tripod frame by frame?

benjamin's picture

glad you liked my film.

yeah well actually using tracks, which was a bit of a nightmare in a forest! took a frame then moved it about an inch each increment.

thanks for the comment

ben

Carefully Crafted Media's picture

Awesome...really liked the effect. Love time-lapse sequences anyway but this really impressed me. As cool as it is, don't overuse this technique though. Nice one!!!

spence's picture

One of the better "still capture" videos that there has been so many of as of late. The process is accomplished quite well and it definitely lives symbiotically with the track, which is great.

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peterbunzl's picture

Hi there,
I just wanted to ask how you embed the vimeo stuff in this site.
Because I cannot get it to work at all here?
Peter

shotsringout's picture

I was kinda over stop-motion, but this beautiful use of the technique has allowed me to open up my heart one more time. The tracking on this video is amazing and I'm sure was a lot of hard work moving through that forest location. Lovely colors and beautiful movement make for a job well done.

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hbrooks's picture

Beautiful

gunghogirl's picture

I love the cinematography on the opening sequence. The whole piece is really gorgeous. Especially like how the colors and flow of the costumes work with the stop motion effect. I appreciate you posting some of your techniques too. Yet another piece that proves VFX is king is this day & age.

Marktw's picture

Really good effect!

JackFilms's picture

nice idea, i like it

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