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A1(M) overnight bridge demolition between Darlington & Dishforth.


As part of the M1 motorway upgrade scheme the Highways Agency (Yorkshire and Humber) closed the A1, North Yorkshire between Junction 60 (near Darlington) and Junction 49 (Dishforth). Saturday 9 April - Sunday 10 April 2011

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Production Notes:
Timeplase with the Canon 5Dmk2. 18+ hours 4,000 images.
Jpegs assembled in Apple Quicktime. Output in Prores at native 5616x3744 & 1920x1080, cut in FCP. The 5616x3744 layer was used for panned close up shots. The 1920x1080 was used as a base layer.

Graded with three way colour correction in FCP. Output and rendered in Apple Compressor adding additional blanket colour correction and sharpness.

Lens became fogged at around 3:30am. Very cold from 2am-6am drained batteries fast.


Thanks also to Luke Miller.

hutch.ws

Soundtrack: Angèle Dubeau & Le Pietà / |. Relaxed Groove

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  • Ben 4 months ago
    Great to see a demolition of a bridge in timelapse. Beautiful made. Added to vimeo.com/channels/hdtime and vimeo.com/channels/1341
  • James Miller plus 4 months ago
    Thanks & Cheers Ben :)
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  • David Heron 4 months ago
    I hope the HA or the Contractor paid you handsomely for that.
    I'm a Civil Engineer so relly enjoyed that, amazing what can be done on a night closure.
  • James Miller plus 4 months ago
    Thanks David
  • Lisha LO 4 months ago
    Yeah super amazing. I worked on the Big Dig in Boston, MA and was assigned to a grade-all and chisel it was fun work.
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  • ottograph 4 months ago
    nice!
  • James Miller plus 4 months ago
    :)
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  • Yakou Dèh-Itsoké plus 4 months ago
    Wow. We are ants ^^
  • James Miller plus 4 months ago
    Yes
  • Hishimaru Joshi 4 months ago
    Couldn't have said it better hehe..
    Awesome work
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  • The Aggregate 4 months ago
    This is absolutely fantastic James! We've got it live on our channel and site :) Keep up the good work.

    Channel:
    vimeo.com/channels/theaggregate

    Site:
    theaggregate.net
  • James Miller plus 4 months ago
    Thank you
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  • TAKE BACKS plus 4 months ago
    Hey Teaparty! THIS is what our tax dollars pay for. Awesome lapse.
  • James Miller plus 4 months ago
    :)
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  • Oliver Wilkins plus 4 months ago
    Magical. You have a great niche with this stuff.
  • James Miller plus 4 months ago
    Thanks, Oliver.
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  • XOXO Wedding Studio plus 4 months ago
    Nice job.
    SUper neat!
  • James Miller plus 4 months ago
    thanks
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  • Sam Morrill staff 4 months ago
    Feels like a race against the clock.
  • James Miller plus 4 months ago
    Cheers Sam it was. Thanks for the like
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  • B3nb@ker 4 months ago
    i did not know construction work was so epic!

    great job!
  • James Miller plus 4 months ago
    Sometimes!
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  • blackwatch plus 4 months ago
    extraordinary

    clean, efficient work
  • James Miller plus 4 months ago
    Thanks
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  • Team 1210 4 months ago
    Nice video... what about slow motion? :D
  • James Miller plus 4 months ago
    Ha, more coming!
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  • Aravind Jose T. plus 4 months ago
    Awesome \m/
  • James Miller plus 4 months ago
    :)
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  • James Miller plus 4 months ago
    Thanks for that.
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  • Patrick Deen 4 months ago
    I love that part where the moon "rolls" by
  • James Miller plus 4 months ago
    Me too.
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  • thesultan 4 months ago
    Nice video
  • James Miller plus 4 months ago
    Cheers
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  • alan uran 4 months ago
    Amazing how they managed to complete the demolition on time and even clean after themselves. That would be impossible here in Poland. You'd probably hit some debris remains with your car :)
  • James Miller plus 4 months ago
    They were very efficient. Good to see.
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  • misha denisov 4 months ago
    James, how your controlled exposition on night-to-day changing time? Your shot in M or A?
  • James Miller plus 4 months ago
    We set the camera to Av and placed the metering to spot, far right and an area with out much disruption. ISO was 600.
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  • James Miller plus 4 months ago
    Not really as the purpose of this film is to show an overnight closure on a major UK road.

    Anyway everything is a remix :)
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  • VAVILOVVV 4 months ago
    Goooooood!!!!....
  • James Miller plus 4 months ago
    Thankkkkks
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  • Ric Vieira 4 months ago
    Awesome vid!!
  • James Miller plus 4 months ago
    Cheers!
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  • vaitas 4 months ago
    great timelapse !
  • James Miller plus 4 months ago
    Very kind of you to say.
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  • Erik Fors plus 4 months ago
    LOVED it! so interesting to watch something so ordinary
  • James Miller plus 4 months ago
    I love the ordinary. :)
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  • Ranjan 4 months ago
    cool............
  • James Miller plus 4 months ago
    Thanks Ranjan
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  • Selvin Walker plus 4 months ago
    A truely dynamic capture. What was focal distance?
  • James Miller plus 4 months ago
    I think about 24mm
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  • Vincenzo Sammartano 4 months ago
    really nice!working all night long it's a good thing, but work's costs are huge!
  • James Miller plus 4 months ago
    I don't mind working all night. I seem to do that alot. But mostly from a hotel room. This was very noisy and cold.
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  • Matt Knight plus 4 months ago
    brilliant. timelapses have been done to death, but when you get the subject right they're amazing. this is one of those.

    good music choice as well.
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  • Ruben van den Belt 4 months ago
    Hello James. Great video. Loved it. Thanks for creating.

    And the music> was it specially composed or? It sounds like a perfect fit in combination with your edits. Well done..
  • James Miller plus 4 months ago
    Sorry missed putting credit in.

    Angèle Dubeau & Le Pietà / |. Relaxed Groove
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  • Freek Freriks 4 months ago
    It looks pretty hypnotising if you ask me, so i watched it twice :D
    Great music and cool subject. Its funny to see what our robots are capable of.
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  • Trey Vollmer plus 4 months ago
    Killer! Lots of patience filming this;)
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  • Jorge Garduño plus 4 months ago
    Love it man! What camera did you shot it in?
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  • Luis Carducci 4 months ago
    Awesome, really nice work. How long were the intervals between each picture?
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  • paulo ernane plus 4 months ago
    Nice job ! Theirs and Your time-lapse vídeo. Please, this demolition was made in April, and your work just published.
    How much time it takes to be done so well ?
    Cumpliments.
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  • Alex Buckley plus 4 months ago
    Hi James, lovely job. I was just wondering how you coped so smoothly with the light change into daylight?
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  • Alex Buckley plus 4 months ago
    sorry just read previous post that you answered: Once again loved it!
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  • Spirit of Space plus 4 months ago
    this is a timelapse! brilliant addition of the value statements.
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  • Lu plus 4 months ago
    Just love your timelapse!
    Makes me feel that as humans we can be very efficient without the frequent BS.

    Do you have any suggestions for how to control light changes for the next timelapse we do?

    Here is our first one: vimeo.com/28917161

    Thank you...and well done!
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  • lee seungki 4 months ago
    WOW so nice work on dump =P
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  • Marco Waddock 4 months ago
    The two guys sittin on the fence at the end really finishes it off nicely. Great work!
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  • Paul Wong plus 4 months ago
    amazed...
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  • icebreaker 4 months ago
    Amazing to see the amount of effort going into something like this.
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  • Yann Rivo plus 4 months ago
    nice choice of music. it brings tension in the success of this site
    what lens did u use ?
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  • UnlimiteD plus 4 months ago
    Looks hard work James!

    How did you manage to work with the power issues?

    I think the longest time i let my 5D run is 2 hours, haha, cant even image 18+ hours for a project
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  • Dathan Manning 4 months ago
    Fantastic.
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  • Tom Judd plus 4 months ago
    Stunning! Shared on animade.tv
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  • Olivier Jordi 4 months ago
    merveilleux ballet.
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  • RichieMac plus 4 months ago
    The music choice is perfect!
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  • TobyLoc plus 4 months ago
    Yes, excellent music choice
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  • Chris Crocker-White 4 months ago
    Nice work both on the part of the filmmaker and the guys doing the job!
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  • Stephen Cheng 4 months ago
    Big hands to the engineers and the photographers!
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  • Nel - VillageBoi 4 months ago
    Simply brilliant James!
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  • Christian Schmeer plus 3 months ago
    I am guessing this was shot in aperture priority mode? How did you keep it from flickering?
  • James Miller plus 3 months ago
    yes Av, it does flicker a bit, but didn't do anything to control. Apart from removing obvious problematic frames.
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  • EQUILOUD. plus 3 months ago
    i love it!
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  • Rafael Stone 3 months ago
    The life looks more free and easy without emotions. There is moving but there is not organic life. Acceleration kills life. I like this movie!:-)
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  • artmusical31 2 months ago
    Very good work !!!
    congrats !!!
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  • fsm vpggru 1 month ago
    nice!
    I love the cuts to crop, really effective.
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  • Simone Bissolati 4 weeks ago
    Added to "Men at work" channel
    vimeo.com/channels/248480
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  • Gerson Martins plus 3 weeks ago
    Great Job!
    I found you by your article in Philip Bloom website, very good too!
    Excuse-me James, would you mind tell us about the interval between shots? I Did a fast math here (18hours / 4000 images) and I get 16 seconds, is that right? Thanks!
  • James Miller plus 3 weeks ago
    Hey Gerson. Cheers.

    I varied the interval from if I can remember 5-15 seconds. There were some very slow sections. I removed the first sections as nothing was happening.

    Also changed the playback frame rate in those slow sections for the playback.

    Far too long ago now. Although the final project is being cut this week.

    James
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