I'm too tired to remember the name, but I saw a British TV documentary last year that took old archive photos and subtly animated elements in the background or foreground. So parts of a photo behind or in front of people which were sky or grass or sea would be replaced by video of the same. Was done very well - not drawing too much attention to itself - so there'd be a slight shimmer on the sea, or a slight blowing in the grass. Then sometimes a slight Ken Burns effect was added, but with a 3D effect created by splitting the foreground, middleground and background elements into separate layers and animating them appropriately. Creating a slight feeling of tracking towards the subject rather than just zooming. I expect a slight grain/flicker was added to the image to make it seem like a video GV rather than a still, too. People who weren't film- savvy might not even have noticed. It definitely brought a little life to old pictures and blurred the boundary between them and the film/video clips they were intercut with.
Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 7-Dec-08, at 9:17 PM, Brook Hinton wrote: There's a clever section in "Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea" that uses a physical set, tricky camerawork and speed control to deal with archival photos in an historical background segment. I don't think it's online though. Brook _______________________________________________________ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
