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4. Dispersal
2 years ago
3. Jitter
2 years ago
1. Rush Hour London
2 years ago
An experimental Time Lapse film exploring rush hour in London. Inspired by Koyaanisqatsi, the film uses time lapse photography techniques to create the visuals. A DSLR was set up to take a frame every 2 secs with a shutter speed of around 0.3 - 2 secs with an ND8 filter was used to create a motion blur which helps to increase the sense of rush and movement within the film.

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  • Max Brill 2 years ago
    Nice one. We have both done a time-lapse from the same spot on the millennium bridge. I reckon we must be amongst hundreds if not thousands of people to have taken that position with a camera. :-)

    Here is mine
    vimeo.com/4529431

    You might also like this one from Liverpool Street Station
    vimeo.com/4084789
  • Rudolf Boogerman 2 years ago
    That is how trends are set, actually. Many folks doing the inevitable. :-)
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  • Chris Searson 2 years ago
    Thanks, yeah i had to fight for my position with other photographers! it is a great view though...
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  • Blake Whitman staff 2 years ago
    A great homage. Especially like the timelapse blurs. Killer poster too.
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  • Brian Nguyen 2 years ago
    That's cool dude.
  • Chris Searson 2 years ago
    Cheers
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  • Pylon Film plus 2 years ago
    1.23 trains really cool when blurred
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  • Jahaan London plus 2 years ago
    great video I really enjoyed the tunes playing along with the video nice selection of music
  • Chris Searson 2 years ago
    Thankyou
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  • Pylon Film plus 2 years ago
    witch song did you use?
  • Chris Searson 2 years ago
    it's a track called wonderland 2 from audio network.
  • NDM 2 years ago
    Great video! I need to get ND filters too. Btw, nice tip about the audio source. Thanks :)
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  • Breezy Granzow 2 years ago
    that was very interesting to watch. awesome shots
  • Chris Searson 2 years ago
    Cheers
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  • ZHIC 2 years ago
    I ♥♥♥

    very representative

    the shots were very effective, especially the switch between timelapse and slow-mo

    job well done!
  • Chris Searson 2 years ago
    Thankyou very much!
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  • ZHIC 2 years ago
    btw, how many pics for this vid ?
  • Chris Searson 2 years ago
    Thousands!! each location took between 200-400 shots
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  • Oh My Doc! 2 years ago
    Amazing!! Great shots!
    What a sadness though. In which world are we living?!
    Good work! ;)
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  • andrew 2 years ago
    Very nice work. Elegant. Enjoyed the trains(all takes). I worked on a few posts from klip collective.
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  • Marcelo Reis plus 2 years ago
    goood!!
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  • O'sah plus 2 years ago
    Visual poetry of a visceral nature.. Beautiful!! Or should I say Brilliant? : )
    For the record I liked yours better than..
    I need to do that in Times Square.. TBC..
    Thank you for sharing!
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  • Dawson Bastian 2 years ago
    Wonderful editing, very well put together. I enjoyed it very much.
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  • Chris Allen 2 years ago
    Awesome... may I ask how you went about achieving the tilt pans in some of the shots? Was it done in post or manually... and if manually was it hard to control the increments you had to move between shots?
  • Chris Searson 2 years ago
    they were done in post, but i'd love to be able to do them in-scene!
  • Chris Allen 2 years ago
    never the less, still very cool!
  • Looks great!

    Bryan Mumford makes a rig for such tilt/pans: bmumford.com/photo/rotary/index.html
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  • Ross McKinnon 2 years ago
    One of the most impressive films I've seen like this. Thanks for sharing the exposure setting details, like the idea of using a ND filter to add a few stops on, great idea, superb result.
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  • Partha Bhattacharya 2 years ago
    Fantastic! A visual treat..
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  • Matthew Kern 2 years ago
    These are some cool time lapses, but I think that 3:1 normally makes things look a little "un-cinematic". The widest that most movies will go is 2.42:1, but normally it's just 2.35 or 2.37:1. Just an observation.
  • Will Streatfeild 2 years ago
    I agree. Very cool video though :o)
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  • subhodip das 2 years ago
    Wow what a cool video, love to see more......... For more cool and beautiful video visit uploaded.tv
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  • trev 2 years ago
    Awesome!! LOVE the photos/stills!!
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  • abvg 2 years ago
    Really cool dude... very well done... I'm very impressed... nice music as well...
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  • james quinn 2 years ago
    Very good.
    You caught the feeling perfectly, organised madness.
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  • Seyfi Cem Baskın plus 2 years ago
    Liked the tube lapse :)
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  • King Learie 2 years ago
    Goodness me! Thank Jupiter I'm not pressed to go there anymore! The stench of horsemanure still lingers in my memory....
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  • Chris Searson 2 years ago
    Thanks everyone!
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  • David Gomes 2 years ago
    beautiful video!
    congrats!
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  • mike milosh 2 years ago
    this is really beautiful
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  • It is really great. I like the colors and really like the scene with the trains viewed from the top. They looked like toy trains. Really nice.
  • Chris Searson 2 years ago
    thanks, yeah the trains from above is my favourite scene.
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  • Gavin Duffy 2 years ago
    Wow....just amazing! Savage poster aswell!
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  • sinisterpictures 2 years ago
    Did you sort out permissions for the train stuff & did you get any hassle from the tripod police at all?

    Great stuff though, I've only just started messing with this sort of thing.
  • Chris Searson 2 years ago
    I didn't get any hassle but i made sure i was inconspicuous enough! i know other people that have had a lot of trouble at stations, so i went prepared!
  • Johnny Wishbone plus 2 years ago
    When I filmed this on The Tube last week I made sure I had the required permission from London Transport (£30 for a 1 month non-commercial permit).

    But I did get stopped by Canary Wharf security when filming outside. They were cool though, once I showed them what I was doing and that it wasn't for commercial purposes!

    vimeo.com/6005936
  • Chris Searson 2 years ago
    I looked into getting the TfL permit but i was under a very tight deadline to get it filmed went without! I got questioned by canary wharf security but they were fine with me.

    I love your "going nowhere" film, really beautiful visuals
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  • Adam Westbrook 2 years ago
    Beautiful!
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  • Regis Hervagault 2 years ago
    that's some major effin' eyecandy !
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  • Johnny Wishbone plus 2 years ago
    I thought the super wide screen aspect worked great, and love the low light shots too. What a great result. Oh, and the time check, titles and radio voice over at the beginning were very cool!
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  • Syl Renaud plus 2 years ago
    Nice texture ! my favourite timelapse so far !!
    Thank you
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  • manusainz 2 years ago
    Nice one. I am doing a very similar project, but I stopped a few months ago...
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  • Ravi Ranjan 2 years ago
    This video is really grt!! See a wide collection of videos in uploaded.tv
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  • MILapse 2 years ago
    Man I envy you guys in the big cities. So much material so little time! Wonderful work. Love the grading!
  • Chris Searson 2 years ago
    Thanks. I envy the people who live there too! One of the main reasons i made it was because I love the frantic nature of city life compared to the rural life I'm used to.
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  • YANG Francois 2 years ago
    Nice job!
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  • Really well done. A good 'nod' to Baraka or Koyaanisqatsi. Timeless. I like the grading and also the panning in post. Keep up the good work.
  • Chris Searson 2 years ago
    cheers
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  • Adriana de Barros 2 years ago
    It will be featured today at Scene 360 magazine (Scene360.com) and Scene 360 Illusion (illusion.scene360.com)
  • Chris Searson 2 years ago
    Thankyou!
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  • Kijek / Adamski 2 years ago
    That's pretty much how we remember London. Thank You.
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  • Ylen 2 years ago
    WOW...so nice.
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  • Steve Barrett 2 years ago
    I really like this one! very cool, you can definately tell that Koyaanisqatsi was an inspiration to the film.

    How did you do the shot of the exterior of canary wharf station (the slow tilting up)? Looks incredible
  • Chris Searson 2 years ago
    Thanks, Yeah Koyaanisqatsi was a big inspiration.

    The pans are created by key-framing the widescreen matt in Final Cut.
  • Steve Barrett 2 years ago
    Oh right, so you filmed in a bigger ration and moved the larger image with keyframing?

    haha I always thought that people must have some slow electronic pan or tilt head that you can make move extremely slowly!
  • Chris Searson 2 years ago
    yeah thats right.

    You can get electronic pan and tilt heads but they don't come cheap, so being a poor student i cheated! haha. I think it works just as well though.
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  • Cyrke 2 years ago
    Incredible! Looks so inspiring... stepping back looking at the world go! How did you achieve such a smooth panning during the timelapse?
  • Chris Searson 2 years ago
    Thanks.

    The pans were produced in post by key-framing the widescreen matt over the larger, DSLR frame size.
  • Cyrke 2 years ago
    Clever, never even came to my mind... keep it up Chris!
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  • Paul Sellen 2 years ago
    Fantastic- well done!
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  • Francis Hsueh 2 years ago
    Great work Chris. Congratulations. Was wondering, how would you suggest dealing with changing light conditions? (I.e. - a sunset, or passing thunderclouds)? Some folks recommend leaving the camera on auto, others on manual. But wouldn't changing white balance, etc. disturb the camera? Thank you for the inspiring work.
  • Chris Searson 2 years ago
    Thankyou.

    I would personally set the camera up manually and then let it be. You'll probably find the effects of changing conditions more effective that way, rather than in auto mode, where the camera would always try and maintain a "correct" exposure which would possibly reduce the impact of storm brewing or a sunset.

    When setting the exposure though, just bear in mind possible changes in light levels, so always err on the side of caution, maybe a few stops either way depending on the situation. Hope that helps!
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  • Mahyar Rostami 2 years ago
    amazing
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  • P.H. 2 years ago
    Beautiful video !!!
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  • Baris Azman 2 years ago
    Great stuff, how did you achieve the slow motion shots? They look really fluid. Not jittery like some others.

    Thanks in advance.
  • Chris Searson 2 years ago
    Thanks, Did nothing special to for the slow motion shots, simply slowed down normally in Final Cut.
  • Baris Azman 2 years ago
    Thanks Chris, I am looking into the whole timelapse thing myself and your video was especially great for inspiration.

    One more question, what was the rat of shots you used for the footage you slowed down in Final Cut? How many pictures were they originally before slowing down?

    Ok one more, did you do the blurring effect in Final Cut or was that on the day?
  • Chris Searson 2 years ago
    The slow motion footage was shot with video, the blurred effect was done in-camera on the DSLR, using a slow shutter speed (between 0.3 - 2 secs) to create the motion blur in each of the frames. I used an ND8 filter to allow me to do this in daylight without over exposing.
  • Baris Azman 2 years ago
    Thanks for the extra clarification Chris.
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  • Kai Clear plus 2 years ago
    Really nice work there ++good
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  • em oliva 2 years ago
    I am enamored with the idea of visiting London some day, so I truly enjoyed this piece. It's fantastic :)
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  • Paul Gregory 2 years ago
    This is a fantastic piece. Jealous of your equipment, skills and composition :) Would love to see more!
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  • Camila Di Pietro 2 years ago
    that was wonderful! =)
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  • Riot Cinema plus 2 years ago
    Beautiful :)

    It's a shame the music doesn't have the power of Phillip Glass!
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  • Giacomo Coppola 2 years ago
    wow.. i'm speechless.. the trains motion blur was just amazing.. i'll share the video on twitter and facebook.. congrats!!
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  • Bruno Nascimento 2 years ago
    Inspiring. Plus, it is always great to see artists talking about the techniques they used.
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  • Mark Hall 2 years ago
    Very nice Shots !!! :)
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  • Harry Cartwright 2 years ago
    hey .. i love the photography but more importantly i love the way you have captured and enhanced the 'hustle and bustle' of a rush hour of london... spread throughout the entire day 5***** keep it up!
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  • Dropping In Movie plus 2 years ago
    Perfect. Thanks for killing it!
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  • Nicholas Creevy 2 years ago
    An amazing piece of work, so much creativity! I want to go into this kind of work someday :)
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  • Sergey Pylypenko 2 years ago
    Pleased to watch, amazing integrity of video/sound, lots of ideas, THANKS!!!
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  • Dj Frost 2 years ago
    great work, amazing production value.
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  • Clemente Alves 2 years ago
    i too tip my chapeau. well done.
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  • Terence Beal pro 2 years ago
    Nice video and photos. Thanks !
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  • Poetry, really nice to watch, having a really bad day, but your film made it better, thank you. Lionel
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  • skyn production 2 years ago
    very nice
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  • Medienregie 2 years ago
    Nice one.
    I have a question too. Would be nice, if you could answere. How is the Framerate in the film (for example train scene)?
    Thanks and keep up the very good work.

    PS: Oh and how is the name of the software that was used. Sorry, but I am a bloody beginner.
  • Chris Searson 2 years ago
    From what i can remember, the frame rate was 12fps for the timelapse. I used Final Cut Pro to edit.
  • Medienregie 2 years ago
    Thanks Chris.
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  • Fuku 2 years ago
    it's cool
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