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Sleeping Beauty - City lights / Music video

"Ohh so your new song is called City Lights?! I have a great idea for that!"

When I got a call from the band asking me to do a video for their upcoming single I had just recently checked out the many inspirational works of people posting at instructables.com and found my way to the amazing movies made by the japanese light-painting crew PIKAPIKA. Realizing that there was no way we would be able to do it their way (and not much of a point) we came up with our own take on it, have a look and let us know what you think!


Credits:

Produced by: Benjamin Taft, Johannes Petterson, Jonatan Westman
Main photography by: Benjamin Taft
Additional photography by: Daniel Palmér
Editing & Post: Jonatan Westman, Benjamin Taft
Light-painters: Johannes Petterson, Jonatan Westman and to a lesser extent the rest of the crew and the band, a special shout out to Björn Janson (drummer in the band) who did the many of the detailed light paintings.


Music and performance by: Sleeping Beauty- myspace.com/sleepingbeautyrocks

Instructable/tutorial: instructables.com/id/Animate-with-light/

Showcase of Benjamin Taft: taft.se

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  • teddy goitom 3 years ago
    Damn nice work, Benjamin! keep up the good style.
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  • Spencer Black 3 years ago
    Beautiful Work. Love all the light trails. I know a ton of work had to go into making this.
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  • Adam Bognar plus 3 years ago
    Wow dude. Wicked job - looks fantastic. I can only imagine how tedious this must have been.
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  • Benjamin Taft plus 3 years ago
    Thank you guys!
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  • Jared Foster plus 3 years ago
    Have you had an idea and then you see someone else do it? Dang you! That was very well done. I love it all. It would be great to hear more about how you did this and how many frames you shot and how long this took you.
  • Benjamin Taft plus 3 years ago
    Hah yeah that happens all the time too me, but mostly it just serves as inspiration as long as I can come up with some twist to the idea.

    I would say we shot around 1500 frames and used 6 frames a second for most shots, some are 9 frames a second (the rotation ones). I actually put up a step-by-step guide on how we made this video on Instructables.com: instructables.com/id/Animate-with-light/

    I realize it leaves out a lot, but feel free to ask if you have any questions. I like your time-lapse video, Hay fire.
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  • Eric Buist plus 3 years ago
    geez. absolutely incredible. did you guys shoot inside for a lot of this?
  • Benjamin Taft plus 3 years ago
    Hey thanks! We did two full days of shooting in a blackbox, it made things a lot easier having a controlled environment to work in.
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  • Karen Abad plus 3 years ago
    Great job guys. :-)
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  • Blake Whitman staff 3 years ago
    Very well executed. Great to see this form of art becoming utilized more.
  • Benjamin Taft plus 3 years ago
    Thanks, I appreciate the featuring in the staff's picks!
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  • Brian Boudreau 3 years ago
    very well done
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  • Alex Itin 3 years ago
    great job
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  • Bryan 3 years ago
    oh man PIKAPIKA is so cool. and you guys did a great job! i really love the stills on the right.
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  • michael baca 3 years ago
    sooo coool really really well done
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  • Very creative!
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  • Am I gonna see this on tv maybe?
  • Benjamin Taft plus 3 years ago
    Sure hope so!
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  • Rommel Cantalice 3 years ago
    GREAT!!!!! Great music, great video!! Just great...
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  • Marty 3 years ago
    Great ! Bravo !
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  • pheadx 3 years ago
    that was pretty great
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  • Dustin Wegner 3 years ago
    how many frames???
  • Benjamin Taft plus 3 years ago
    Most of the time only 6f/s, during the rotation we used 9f/s, check the instructable write-up I did for more info: instructables.com/id/Animate-with-light/
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  • carl ballou 3 years ago
    great post production work. i'm jealous

    vimeo.com/channel7914
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  • matheus webber 3 years ago
    Great! ^^
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  • BoobJiggle Dotcom 3 years ago
    Great musical structure. Nice drum fills. Nice variation in melody.
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  • Asa Berdahl 3 years ago
    Love it. Various ideas formed together with the art of light. Geez, I wish I had the time or a camera to do some of that with.
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  • Benjamin Taft plus 3 years ago
    I'd just like to thank everyone who's watched the video and a special thanks to everyone who's commented, love the feedback and kudos!
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  • Rookiedad 3 years ago
    Big WOW!
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  • Paco Aguayo 3 years ago
    Wow!!!
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  • visual sound 3 years ago
    Super great
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  • cesar 3 years ago
    ultrawow
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  • pau valiente plus 3 years ago
    Great! Fabulous!
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  • Joakim Stenkvist 3 years ago
    Tjena Benjamin! Nathalie visade mig denna för ett tag sen, nu såg jag din länk på facebook. Riktigt schysst video! Bra låt med /Jocke
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  • Benjamin Taft plus 3 years ago
    Tja Jocke! Kul att du gillar den, tack :)
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  • BillKos 3 years ago
    Yeah, I like the light painting, too, but this is great song!
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  • seying 1 year ago
    Incredible, how to do out?
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  • Chad 1 year ago
    Awesome video, well done, beautiful! Music, not so much
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  • mr.vivaz 1 year ago
    wow, nice job .
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  • o.d. 1 year ago
    It is visually beautiful. However it feels a little to jittery though, as though it's a low frame rate..? Also the audio sync could have been more precise and/or developed.? .... But overall I think it's pretty great.
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  • Gary Kitchen 1 year ago
    Beautiful project, that freestyle creativity is the best I've seen. And the song is excellent as well. Extreme dedication from all involved, but worth your efforts! You will go far with your talents, great work!
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  • Brittany Tran plus 1 year ago
    beautiful visuals!
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  • serge 6 months ago
    Tja !
    Jatte trevlig light painting video
    Det var inte så populär tre år sent ... Avant gardist !
    Ska du till BM 2011 ?
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