Melancholia from Enrique Pacheco on Vimeo.
Because I was excited that Lauren and I taught ourselves to do time-lapse this week I thought I’d look for a video about it. While we have in no way mastered it like this filmmaker has, we at least got the basics. This film shows some really beautiful shots that were obviously very well thought out. According to the filmmaker they had to be since he was shooting in infrared, and in Iceland no less. To be honest, I wasn’t sure what infrared is exactly so I looked it up. According to Wikipedia infrared light is electromagnetic radiation with longer wavelengths than those of visible light. In photography the film or image sensor used is sensitive to infrared light. I’m still struggling with understanding this, but from what I can see it takes superbly crisp, detailed images.
One technique from this that I would like to learn is how to set up a time-lapse moving shot. This video is full of them. To me the movement adds to the cinematic look of time-lapse. While I would never want to shoot an entire film of only time-lapse, I think its effective in small doses.
I have said it before I am a huge sucker for good time lapse photography and this is awesome time lapse. But I will say this where these images were awesome and crisp and clean, I found myself wanting throughout the whole video. I did not like the use of black and white, I feel like when you are shooting scenes of places you should try and capture the color and the life of what you are shooting. Here it made me feel disconnected from the whole scene.
I am also very intrigued with the moving timelapse. It seems like such a simple concept but it greatly increases the cinematic experience of the timelapse by allowing the viewer to feel like they are moving through space and time.
While we usually see time lapse in colors to notice the change in the time of the day here it really worked with only black and white. It made me concentrate more on the movements of things rather than getting distracted by colors.