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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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Ace Renegade 3 months 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 3 months ago

That is how trends are set, actually. Many folks doing the inevitable. :-)
Chris Searson 3 months ago

Thanks, yeah i had to fight for my position with other photographers! it is a great view though...
Blake Whitman 3 months ago

A great homage. Especially like the timelapse blurs. Killer poster too.
Brian Jiro Nguyen–Fujiwara 3 months ago

That's cool dude.
Chris Searson 3 months ago

Cheers
Pylon Film 3 months ago

1.23 trains really cool when blurred
Jahaan London 3 months ago

great video I really enjoyed the tunes playing along with the video nice selection of music
Chris Searson 3 months ago

Thankyou
Pylon Film 3 months ago

witch song did you use?
Chris Searson 3 months ago

it's a track called wonderland 2 from audio network.
NDM 3 months ago

Great video! I need to get ND filters too. Btw, nice tip about the audio source. Thanks :)
Breezy 3 months ago

that was very interesting to watch. awesome shots
Chris Searson 3 months ago

Cheers
ZhiC 3 months ago

I ♥♥♥

very representative

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

job well done!
Chris Searson 3 months ago

Thankyou very much!
ZhiC 3 months ago

btw, how many pics for this vid ?
Chris Searson 3 months ago

Thousands!! each location took between 200-400 shots
Oh My Doc! 3 months ago

Amazing!! Great shots!
What a sadness though. In which world are we living?!
Good work! ;)
andrew 3 months ago

Very nice work. Elegant. Enjoyed the trains(all takes). I worked on a few posts from klip collective.
Marcelo Reis 3 months ago

goood!!
Orville Herry 3 months 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!
Dawson Bastian 3 months ago

Wonderful editing, very well put together. I enjoyed it very much.
Chris Allen 3 months 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 3 months ago

they were done in post, but i'd love to be able to do them in-scene!
Chris Allen 3 months ago

never the less, still very cool!
Wicked Delicate Films 3 months ago

Looks great!

Bryan Mumford makes a rig for such tilt/pans: bmumford.com/photo/rotary/index.html
Ross McKinnon 3 months 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.
Partha Bhattacharya 3 months ago

Fantastic! A visual treat..
Matthew Kern 3 months 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 3 months ago

I agree. Very cool video though :o)
subhodip das 3 months ago

Wow what a cool video, love to see more......... For more cool and beautiful video visit uploaded.tv
trev 3 months ago

Awesome!! LOVE the photos/stills!!
Aldric G. Bailey 3 months ago

Really cool dude... very well done... I'm very impressed... nice music as well...
james quinn 3 months ago

Very good.
You caught the feeling perfectly, organised madness.
Seyfi Cem Baskın 3 months ago

Liked the tube lapse :)
King Learie 3 months ago

Goodness me! Thank Jupiter I'm not pressed to go there anymore! The stench of horsemanure still lingers in my memory....
Chris Searson 3 months ago

Thanks everyone!
David Gomes 3 months ago

beautiful video!
congrats!
mike milosh 3 months ago

this is really beautiful
Patrick van der Heyden 3 months ago

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 3 months ago

thanks, yeah the trains from above is my favourite scene.
Gavin Duffy 3 months ago

Wow....just amazing! Savage poster aswell!
sinisterpictures 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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
Adam Westbrook 3 months ago

Beautiful!
Regis Hervagault 3 months ago

that's some major effin' eyecandy !
Johnny Wishbone 3 months 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!
Syl Renaud 3 months ago

Nice texture ! my favourite timelapse so far !!
Thank you
manusainz 3 months ago

Nice one. I am doing a very similar project, but I stopped a few months ago...
Ravi Ranjan 3 months ago

This video is really grt!! See a wide collection of videos in uploaded.tv
MILapse 3 months ago

Man I envy you guys in the big cities. So much material so little time! Wonderful work. Love the grading!
Chris Searson 3 months 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.
YANG Francois 3 months ago

Nice job!
Mike Stezycki 3 months ago

Amazing, really captures the busyness of the city.
Silent Studios | Resonate 3 months ago

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 3 months ago

cheers
Adriana de Barros 3 months ago

It will be featured today at Scene 360 magazine (Scene360.com) and Scene 360 Illusion (illusion.scene360.com)
Chris Searson 3 months ago

Thankyou!
Kijek / Adamski 3 months ago

That's pretty much how we remember London. Thank You.
Ylen 3 months ago

WOW...so nice.
Steve Barrett 3 months 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 3 months ago

Thanks, Yeah Koyaanisqatsi was a big inspiration.

The pans are created by key-framing the widescreen matt in Final Cut.
Steve Barrett 3 months 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 3 months 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.
Cyrke 3 months 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 3 months ago

Thanks.

The pans were produced in post by key-framing the widescreen matt over the larger, DSLR frame size.
Cyrke 3 months ago

Clever, never even came to my mind... keep it up Chris!
Wanderer 63 3 months ago

Fantastic- well done!
Francis Hsueh 3 months 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 3 months 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!
Mahyar Rostami 3 months ago

amazing
P.H. 3 months ago

Beautiful video !!!
Baris Azman 3 months 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 3 months ago

Thanks, Did nothing special to for the slow motion shots, simply slowed down normally in Final Cut.
Baris Azman 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago

Thanks for the extra clarification Chris.
Kai Clear 3 months ago

Really nice work there ++good
em oliva 3 months ago

I am enamored with the idea of visiting London some day, so I truly enjoyed this piece. It's fantastic :)
Paul Gregory 3 months ago

This is a fantastic piece. Jealous of your equipment, skills and composition :) Would love to see more!
Camila Di Pietro 3 months ago

that was wonderful! =)
Riot Cinema 3 months ago

Beautiful :)

It's a shame the music doesn't have the power of Phillip Glass!
Giacomo Coppola 3 months ago

wow.. i'm speechless.. the trains motion blur was just amazing.. i'll share the video on twitter and facebook.. congrats!!
Bruno Nascimento 3 months ago

Inspiring. Plus, it is always great to see artists talking about the techniques they used.
Mark Hall 3 months ago

Very nice Shots !!! :)
Harry Cartwright 3 months 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!
Dropping In Movie 3 months ago

Perfect. Thanks for killing it!
Nicholas Creevy 3 months ago

An amazing piece of work, so much creativity! I want to go into this kind of work someday :)
wanderer 3 months ago

Pleased to watch, amazing integrity of video/sound, lots of ideas, THANKS!!!
Dj Frost 3 months ago

great work, amazing production value.
Clemente Alves 3 months ago

i too tip my chapeau. well done.
Terence Beal 3 months ago

Nice video and photos. Thanks !
Nousha Photography 3 months ago

Poetry, really nice to watch, having a really bad day, but your film made it better, thank you. Lionel
skyn production 3 months ago

very nice
Tilo Kemnitz 3 months 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 3 months ago

From what i can remember, the frame rate was 12fps for the timelapse. I used Final Cut Pro to edit.
Tilo Kemnitz 3 months ago

Thanks Chris.