EMC/JOUR 3000 Lecture 2 - Time and Space

Time and Space in Motion Pictures

EMC/ JOUR 3000 Intro to Motion PicturesEdward Bowen

Prolonging Time• Editing – “Notorious” (1946)

Prolonging Time• Slow motion – “Max Payne” (2008)

Prolonging Time• Slow motion – “Nuit Blanche” (2009)

http://vimeo.com/groups/motion/videos/9078364

Compressing Time • Fast motion - “Koyaanisqatsi” (1982)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6pVLQAY1HM

Manipulating Time - Ramping • Ramping – Changing speeds rapidly within a single

shot.

Manipulating Time - Ramping • Ramping – “Sherlock Holmes” (2009)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug15jIs1nus

Manipulating Time • Ramping – “Watchmen” (2009)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Afk_onUh_s

Manipulating Time • Reverse motion – The action moves backwards.• “Spin” (2005) Jamin Winans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP59tQf_njc

Manipulating Time • Time Lapse – Super fast motion created by taking

single frames of an object over time, compressing minutes, hours, days, weeks or years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnbMYzdjuBs

Manipulating Time • Stop Motion – Single frame photography used to

animate objects. Effect that makes the animation of drawings (cartoons) and inanimate objects (i.e. Claymation) possible.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/12/31/50-incredible-stop-motion-videos/

Manipulating Time• Stop Motion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5QWUA17lwM

Manipulating Time • Stop Motion – “Jason and the Argonauts” (1963)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NQ2GPoZ_j4

Manipulating Time • Stop Motion – “Jason and the Argonauts” (1963)

http://www.rayharryhausen.com/index.php

Ray Harryhausen

Manipulating Time • Stop Motion – “Neighbors” Norman McLaren (1952)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZt_d_4OV-Q

Technology of Motion PicturesSpeed • Stop Motion – “Her Morning Elegance” Oren Lavie (2009)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_HXUhShhmY

Technology of Motion PicturesSpeed • Stop Motion – “End Love” OK Go (2010)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2fpgpanZAw

Speed • Bullet Time – Time is slowed or frozen selectively

for the characters and the environment, but not for certain characters or the camera, which move through the environment in real time. First popularized in “The Matrix” (1999).

Technology of Motion Pictures

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BulletTime

Speed • Bullet Time – “The Matrix” (1999).

Technology of Motion Pictures

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNrSNcaYiZg

Speed • Bullet Time – “The Matrix” (1999).

Technology of Motion Pictures

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KtghA0rkDY

Speed • Bullet Time – CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2010)

Technology of Motion Pictures

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9qjdUlRs7Y

Technology of Motion PicturesTime - “10 Minutes” (1994)

http://vimeo.com/2455660