Responsive Collaborative: Creating a Time-lapse

We had the idea fairly early on that our final video should contain a mixture of animation and live action. At the start of the storyboard I had the idea that we could film a time-lapse of Laura creating on of the backgrounds for the animation side of the animation after the text 'What does a sustainable ocean look like?' appears on screen, so we could literally talk an audience visually through what a sustainable ocean looks like to artists.

We borrowed our flatmate's camera to film the video. Due to scheduling conflicts we found it hard to find the time in the day to film the video. For the first attempt we filmed it around 4pm when the sun was not particularly high in the sky and was going down. We had twenty minutes to film the video and had the idea that instead of using the time-lapse setting on the camera we would film this way and then speed up the footage in post-production. But when we watched the footage back it was evident that due to the natural lighting that the footage was dark and increasingly dark as the footage went on. We felt like this was a problem that could easily be fixed in post-production by increasing the brightness. But there was another problem in that Laura felt we could see to much of her in the footage due to the camera angle so we decided to give it another go.

The second attempt was far more successful. To combat the issue of lighting we had had previously, Laura positioned herself to paint in the open doorway of our kitchen and the fact that she was at a lower angle meant that I could get a better shot with the camera. We played back the footage and it looks very successful and I felt I could easily transition it into the animation.