Video: Music Video Made for 45,000 Pictures
Penguin December 6th, 2008
Fat City Reprise – Long Gone from Cesar Kuriyama on Vimeo.
The video is gorgeous with its subtle animation and beautiful depth of field. It’s hard to imagine that it was all done with a DSLR
Eschewing a video camera, he took 45,000 photographs with a Nikon D200 DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) camera and stitched them together to create the illusion of video.
Kuriyama says he directed the talent in the video to move as best they could in slow-motion while he had his director of photography Tommy Agriodimas shoot JPG bursts with the Nikon D200.
The duo were able to get about 60 images per burst at about four pictures per second.
After that the team re-worked the frames in post-production to move closer to 24 frames per second.
Including the time for conceptualizing and creating the story board, it took Kuriyama about 14 months to the video. He worked on it after-work hours every day.
The whole video cost just about $3000 to make
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